García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2010): Meteorological observations during King George III cruise from Gravesend to York Factory started at 1789-06-24 [dataset]. Public Record Office, Kew, United Kingdom, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.749967, 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
Project(s):
Funding:
Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), grant/award no. EVK2-CT-2000-00090: Climatological Database for the Worlds Oceans: 1750-1854
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 58.475238 * Median Longitude: -36.350000 * South-bound Latitude: 56.620000 * West-bound Longitude: -65.280000 * North-bound Latitude: 61.670000 * East-bound Longitude: -8.400000
Date/Time Start: 1789-06-24T13:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1789-07-14T16:00:00
Event(s):
King_George_III_17890624_PRO_BH1_1545 * Latitude Start: 51.490000 * Longitude Start: 1.170000 * Latitude End: 61.320000 * Longitude End: -64.020000 * Date/Time Start: 1789-06-24T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1789-07-14T00:00:00 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: King George Iii, Voyage: Gravesend - York Factory, 1st Observer: Joshua Tunstall (1st Officer/Master), Company: Hudson Bay Company
Parameter(s):
# | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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1 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Geocode | |||
2 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Geocode | |||
3 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Geocode | |||
4 | Wind direction | dd | deg | Wind 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. | ||
5 | Wind speed | ff | m/s | calculated from the descriptive terms of wind force given in the observations | ||
6 | Landmark | Landmark | Name of first landmark | |||
7 | Bearing | Bearing | Bearing of the first landmark | |||
8 | Distance to landmark | Distance | arbitrary units | Distance to the first landmark | ||
9 | Course | Course | Course of the ship during the past 24 hours | |||
10 | Distance | Distance | arbitrary units | Distance travelled during the previous 24 hours | ||
11 | Comment | Comment | Other remarks, that were not possible to put in the other remark fields | |||
12 | Declination | Decl | deg | It 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. | ||
13 | Wind direction description | Wind dir descr | All reported wind directions on this day. The wind direction is the direction that points to where the wind comes from. | |||
14 | Current direction description | Cur dir descr | Direction of the current. This direction points to where the current is flowing towards to. | |||
15 | Current speed description | V descr | ||||
16 | Wind force description | Wind force descr | All reported wind forces on this day | |||
17 | Present weather | ww | Weather description | |||
18 | Precipitation description | Precip descr | ||||
19 | State of the sea description | State sea descr | ||||
20 | Clearness | Clearness | ||||
21 | Gusts | Gusts | 1 If wind gusts are reported | |||
22 | Precipitation/Rain | Rain | 1 If rain was reported | |||
23 | Fog | Fog | 1 If fog was reported | |||
24 | Snow type | Snow | 1 If snow was reported | |||
25 | Thunder | Thunder | 1 If thunder and or lightning was reported | |||
26 | Hail | Hail | 1 If hail was reported | |||
27 | Sea ice | Sea ice | 1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported | |||
28 | Identification | ID | CLIWOC 2.1 line number |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
357 data points
Data
1 Date/Time | 2 Latitude | 3 Longitude | 4 dd [deg] (Wind direction (from which th...) | 5 ff [m/s] (calculated from the descripti...) | 6 Landmark (Name of first landmark) | 7 Bearing (Bearing of the first landmark) | 8 Distance [arbitrary units] (Distance to the first landmark) | 9 Course (Course of the ship during the...) | 10 Distance [arbitrary units] (Distance travelled during the...) | 11 Comment (Other remarks, that were not ...) | 12 Decl [deg] (It is generally accepted by t...) | 13 Wind dir descr (All reported wind directions ...) | 14 Cur dir descr (Direction of the current. Thi...) | 15 V descr | 16 Wind force descr (All reported wind forces on t...) | 17 ww (Weather description) | 18 Precip descr | 19 State sea descr | 20 Clearness | 21 Gusts (1 If wind gusts are reported) | 22 Rain (1 If rain was reported) | 23 Fog (1 If fog was reported) | 24 Snow (1 If snow was reported) | 25 Thunder (1 If thunder and or lightning...) | 26 Hail (1 If hail was reported) | 27 Sea ice (1 If sea-ice or icebergs were...) | 28 ID (CLIWOC 2.1 line number) |
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1789-06-24T13:00 | 58.17 | -8.40 | 5 | N85W | 155.00 | -29 | NE, NEBE, NEBN | STIFF GALE, FRESH GALES, LESS WIND | RAIN | HAZY THEN FINE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128661 | |||||||||
1789-06-25T13:00 | 58.57 | -12.47 | 297 | 6.7 | S75W | 130.00 | -29 | NNE, NBE, NEBN, VARIABLE, NWBN | FRESH GALES AND SQUALLY, MODERATE | HAIL | FINE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 128662 | ||||||||
1789-06-26T13:00 | 57.47 | -13.38 | 362 | 2.6 | S24W | 69.00 | -28 | NWBW, WNW, WBN, NNW, NW, VARIABLE | FRESH GALES, SQUALLY, LITTLE WIND | FINE THEN CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128663 | |||||||||
1789-06-27T13:00 | 57.10 | -14.98 | 17 | 22.6 | S73W | 55.00 | -28 | WBN, NEBN, NNE, VARIABLE, NE | LIGHT WINDS, ALMOST CALM, CALM, FINE BREEZE, STIFF GALE | CLOSE | SHOWERS OF RAIN | CLEAR THEN FINE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128664 | |||||||
1789-06-28T13:00 | 56.62 | -18.35 | 362 | S77W | 114.00 | -29 | NEBN, NNE, NBE, NBW, NNW, VARIABLE | STIFF GALE, LESS WIND | FINE THEN CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128665 | ||||||||||
1789-06-29T13:00 | 56.87 | -18.67 | 219 | 9.3 | N24W | 25.00 | -29 | NWBN, NW, NNW, WBN, WSW | MODERATE, FRESH BREEZE, LITTLE WIND, FINE BREEZE | SHOWERS OF RAIN | FINE THEN CLOUDY | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128666 | ||||||||
1789-06-30T13:00 | 57.25 | -21.30 | 354 | N75W | 89.00 | -29 | WSW, SWBW, SW, WBS, WBN, WNW, NEBN, NNE | SOUTH | MODERATE, LESS WIND, MORE WIND | THICK | SOME RAIN | FINE THEN CLEARING | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128667 | |||||||
1789-07-01T14:00 | 57.07 | -23.42 | 330 | 1.0 | S85W | 69.00 | -30 | NBE, N | FRESH GALES, LITTLE WIND, LIGHT AIRS | DRIZZLING RAIN | FINE | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128668 | ||||||||
1789-07-02T14:00 | 57.33 | -27.40 | 94 | N81W | 132.00 | -30 | S, SSE, SE, SEBE | LIGHT BREEZE, FRESH GALE, MORE WIND | DROPS OF RAIN | FINE THEN CLOUDY | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128669 | |||||||||
1789-07-03T14:00 | 57.57 | -33.37 | 30 | N85W | 190.00 | -38 | EBS, E, ENE | FRESH GALES, STIFF GALES, SQUALLY | CLOUDY THEN FINE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128670 | ||||||||||
1789-07-04T14:00 | 57.67 | -36.73 | 108 | 6.7 | N83W | 109.00 | -38 | NNE, NEBN, EBS, VARIABLE, SEBS | STIFF GALE, LESS WIND, MODERATE | FINE THEN PLEASANT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128671 | |||||||||
1789-07-05T15:00 | 58.08 | -39.55 | 197 | 19.0 | N71W | 94.00 | -39 | SSE, S, WBN, W, VARIABLE, SWBW | FRESH GALES, MORE WIND, LITTLE WIND, FINE BREEZE, FRESH GALE | A VERY GREAT WESTERLY SWELL | CLOUDY THEN CLEARING | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128672 | ||||||||
1789-07-06T15:00 | 57.60 | -43.10 | 60 | 6.7 | S77W | 117.00 | -41 | SW, SWBS, SSW, SBW, SEBS, SEBS, EBS | FRESH GALES, MODERATE | CLOSE | MUCH RAIN | LESS SEA | FINE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128673 | ||||||
1789-07-07T15:00 | 57.82 | -45.57 | 72 | 2.6 | N78W | 82.00 | -41 | EBS, NEBE, NNE, VARIABLE, ESE | FRESH GALES, LITTLE WIND | CLOSE | CLOUDY THEN CLEARING | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128674 | ||||||||
1789-07-08T15:00 | 58.03 | -47.55 | 48 | 6.7 | N76W | 65.00 | -42 | SE, EBS, E | LIGHT AIRS, CALM, MODERATE | CLOSE | FINE THEN CLEARING | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128675 | ||||||||
1789-07-09T15:00 | 59.02 | -51.37 | 59 | 6.7 | N64W | 133.00 | -42 | ESE, SE, EBS | FRESH GALES, STIFF GALE, MODERATE | CLOSE | FINE THEN HAZY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128676 | ||||||||
1789-07-10T16:00 | 60.30 | -55.53 | 104 | 6.7 | N52W | 124.00 | -42 | SEBE, SE, SSE, SBE, SEBS | FRESH GALES, LESS WIND, MODERATE | CLOSE | RAIN | FINE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128677 | |||||||
1789-07-11T16:00 | 61.52 | -59.12 | 116 | 6.7 | N61W | 154.00 | -42 | ESE, E, EBS, SE, SBE, SSE | FRESH GALE, MODERATE | CLOSE | RAINY | SEVERAL STRONG SETS OF TIDES | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128678 | |||||||
1789-07-12T16:00 | 61.03 | -63.60 | 15 | W | 123.00 | AT 11AM AN ISLE OF ICE TO THE WEST. 38W | -41 | SE, ESE, NEBE | SOUTH | 30 | MODERATE, FRESH GALE, LESS WIND | CLOSE | CLEAR THEN FINE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 128679 | ||||||
1789-07-13T16:00 | 61.22 | -65.28 | 353 | 0.0 | N77W | 71.00 | 4PM 4 ISLES OF ICE IN SIGHT, 8PM SEVERAL ISLES OF ICE IN SIGHT, 6AM SEVERAL ISLE OF ICE IN SIGHT. 39W | -41 | NE, ENE, NEBN | FRESH GALES, LESS WIND, LITTLE WIND, CALM | CLOUDY THEN CLEAR AND FINE, HAZY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 128680 | ||||||||
1789-07-14T16:00 | 61.67 | -64.21 | 117 | 1.0 | NE BLUFF OF RESOLUTION | NBW1/2W | 5 | -41 | NEBN, NE, S, SSE | LIGHT AIRS, CALM, SMALL AIR | FINE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128681 |