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García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2010): Meteorological observations during INCONNU-1 cruise from West Indies to Coastal started at 1785-11-28 [dataset]. Centre d'Accueil et de Recherche des Archives Nationales, Paris, France, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.749762, In: Jones, Philip D; Wheeler, Dennis A; Können, Gunther P; Koek, Frits B; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; García-Herrera, Ricardo (2007): Climatological observations from ship logbooks between 1750 and 1854 (release 2.1) [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.611088

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Related to:
García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2005): CLIWOC: A Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750–1854 (and 10 more publications about CLIWOC results in the same volume). Climatic Change, 73(1-2), 1-12ff, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-6952-6
Funding:
Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), grant/award no. EVK2-CT-2000-00090: Climatological Database for the Worlds Oceans: 1750-1854
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 19.830000 * Median Longitude: -75.355000 * South-bound Latitude: 19.270000 * West-bound Longitude: -76.350000 * North-bound Latitude: 20.950000 * East-bound Longitude: -73.700000
Date/Time Start: 1785-11-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1785-12-06T17:00:00
Event(s):
Inconnu-1_17851128_COTE_4/JJ/39 * Date/Time Start: 1785-11-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1785-12-06T00:00:00 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Inconnu-1, Voyage: West Indies - Coastal, 1st Observer: Grimaldy (Capitan)
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
DATE/TIMEDate/TimeGeocode
LATITUDELatitudeGeocode
LONGITUDELongitudeGeocode
Wind directiondddegWind direction (from which the wind is blowing) in whole degrees from: 1-360; 361 = calm, 362 = variable. It is not clear from many logbook entries whether the wind direction has been corrected for the magnetic variation (or declination). To avoid any misunderstanding, all winds from reports that included a valid position in the period 1750-1854 were corrected. All other wind directions are given without being corrected.
Wind speedffm/scalculated from the descriptive terms of wind force given in the observations
CommentCommentOther remarks, that were not possible to put in the other remark fields
DeclinationDecldegIt is generally accepted by the CLIWOC team that the wind directions, reported by the ships officers, were relative to the magnetic North direction. Navigators were well aware of the difference between the true and magnetic north direction, but the compasses (we assumed that the bearing-compasses were mostly used for determining the wind direction) were not always adjusted. Therefore the wind direction has to be corrected. The magnetic declination (or variation, as it is known on board ships) is given for the whole CLIWOC period (1750-1850) for every 5x5 degree square. The number was added to the wind direction to get the true wind direction.
Wind direction descriptionWind dir descrAll reported wind directions on this day. The wind direction is the direction that points to where the wind comes from.
Wind force descriptionWind force descrAll reported wind forces on this day
10 Present weatherwwWeather description
11 State of the sea descriptionState sea descr
12 GustsGusts1 If wind gusts are reported
13 Precipitation/RainRain1 If rain was reported
14 FogFog1 If fog was reported
15 Snow typeSnow1 If snow was reported
16 ThunderThunder1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
17 HailHail1 If hail was reported
18 Sea iceSea ice1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
19 IdentificationIDCLIWOC 2.1 line number
Size:
79 data points

Data

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Date/Time

Latitude

Longitude

dd [deg]

ff [m/s]

Comment

Decl [deg]

Wind dir descr

Wind force descr
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State sea descr
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Gusts
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Rain
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Fog
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Snow
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Thunder
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Hail
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Sea ice
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ID
1785-11-28T00:0020.6745DU NO AU NE0000000114737
1785-12-01T17:0020.95-73.70966.76DU ESE AU EJOLIE FRAISUN PEU HOULEUSE0000000114738
1785-12-02T00:0011313.1APAREILLÉDU E AU ESETRÉS FRAISBRUMEUX0010000114739
1785-12-03T17:0019.50-75.801411.06DU E AU SE ET ESE ET ENEFOIBLES AVEC DES INTERVALLES DE CALME0000000114740
1785-12-04T17:0019.60-75.571190.06DU NO AU ESE ET SECALME PLATBEAU TEMPSBELLE0000000114741
1785-12-06T17:0019.27-76.353216.76DU ONO AU NO ET NNOJOLIE FRAIS0000000114742