Citation:

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):

Climatological Database for the Worlds Oceans: 1750-1854 (CLIWOC)

Funding:

Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), grant/award no. EVK2-CT-2000-00090 : Climatological Database for the Worlds Oceans: 1750-1854

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 55.774667 * Median Longitude: -37.372000 * South-bound Latitude: 49.320000 * West-bound Longitude: -63.740000 * North-bound Latitude: 62.120000 * East-bound Longitude: -6.990000

Date/Time Start: 1789-09-21T16:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1789-10-06T00:00:00

Event(s):

King_George_III_17890921_PRO_BH1_1545 * Latitude Start: 61.320000 * Longitude Start: -64.020000 * Latitude End: 51.490000 * Longitude End: 1.170000 * Date/Time Start: 1789-09-21T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1789-10-06T00:00:00 * Campaign: * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: King George Iii, Voyage: York Factory - Gravesend, 1st Observer: Joshua Tunstall (1st Officer/Master), Company: Hudson Bay Company

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Comment
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	-	-		1 If position is considered to be coastal (in port or near coastal disturbances)
10	Course	Course		Course of the ship during the past 24 hours
11	Distance	Distance	arbitrary units	Distance travelled during the previous 24 hours
12	Comment	Comment		Other remarks, that were not possible to put in the other remark fields
13	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.
14	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.
15	Wind force description	Wind force descr		All reported wind forces on this day
16	Present weather	ww		Weather description
17	Precipitation description	Precip descr
18	State of the sea description	State sea descr
19	Clearness	Clearness
20	Gusts	Gusts		1 If wind gusts are reported
21	Precipitation/Rain	Rain		1 If rain was reported
22	Fog	Fog		1 If fog was reported
23	Snow type	Snow		1 If snow was reported
24	Thunder	Thunder		1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
25	Hail	Hail		1 If hail was reported
26	Sea ice	Sea ice		1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
27	Identification	ID		CLIWOC 2.1 line number

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

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Data

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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 - (1 If position is considered t...)	10 Course (Course of the ship during the...)	11 Distance [arbitrary units] (Distance travelled during the...)	12 Comment (Other remarks, that were not ...)	13 Decl [deg] (It is generally accepted by t...)	14 Wind dir descr (All reported wind directions ...)	15 Wind force descr (All reported wind forces on t...)	16 ww (Weather description)	17 Precip descr	18 State sea descr	19 Clearness	20 Gusts (1 If wind gusts are reported)	21 Rain (1 If rain was reported)	22 Fog (1 If fog was reported)	23 Snow (1 If snow was reported)	25 Hail (1 If hail was reported)	26 Sea ice (1 If sea-ice or icebergs were...)	27 ID (CLIWOC 2.1 line number)
1789-09-21T16:00	62.12	-63.74	319	22.6					S42E	41.00	4AM 3 ISLES OF ICE IN SIGHT. 39W	-41	E, ENE, N	LIGHT WINDS, LITTLE WIND, CALM, FINE BREEZE, STIFF GALE				CLEARING	0	0	1	1	0	1	128682
1789-09-22T16:00	61.35	-60.71	307	22.6	CAPE RESOLUTION	NNW	7				8PM 3 ISLES OF ICE, 11PM PASSED SEVERAL STRAGGLING PIECES OF ICE, 3AM PASSED 3 ISLES OF ICE	-42	N, NBW	STIFF GALES, STRONG GALES	SHOWERS OF SNOW	STRONG SHOWERS		FINE THEN CLEAR	1	0	0	1	0	1	128683
1789-09-23T16:00	60.58	-58.82	14	19.0					S74E	179.00	MIDNIGHT PASSED A LONG ISLE OF ICE. 37W	-42	NBE, N, NE, NEBE	STRONG GALES, LESS WIND, FRESH GALE	THICK SNOW	RAIN		CLEARING	0	1	0	1	0	1	128684
1789-09-24T16:00	59.57	-55.29	307	2.6					S58E	120.00		-42	NE, NEBE, N, NBW	MODERATE, LIGHT WINDS		SHOWERS OF RAIN		FINE THEN CLOUDY	1	1	0	0	0	0	128685
1789-09-25T15:00	58.75	-50.37	318						S65W	165.00		-42	NBW, NWBN, NNW, N	FRESH GALES, LESS WIND, SQUALLY	SHOWERS OF SNOW	HAIL		CLOUDY	0	0	0	1	1	0	128686
1789-09-26T15:00	58.17	-46.72	128	19.0					S78E	119.00		-41	NNW, NWBN, NW, SBW, S, SBE	STRONG GALES, MORE MODERATE, LESS WIND, FRESH GALES	CLOSE	SHOWERS OF RAIN			1	1	0	0	0	0	128687
1789-09-27T15:00	58.03	-44.12	285	22.6					S82E	83.00		-41	S, WSW, WBS, NWBN	FRESH GALES, LITTLE WIND, SMALL BREEZE, STRONG GALE		THICK HEAVY RAIN, SHOWERY	A VERY CROSS HEAVY SEA		1	1	0	0	0	0	128688
1789-09-28T15:00	56.88	-38.76	294						S66E	192.00		-32	NWBN	STRONG GALES, HEAVY SQUALLS		HAIL			0	0	0	0	1	0	128689
1789-09-29T14:00	55.40	-33.59	294						S63E	194.00		-32	NWBN	STRONG GALE, HEAVY SQUALLS		HAIL	A VERY HEAVY SEA		0	0	0	0	1	0	128690
1789-09-30T14:00	53.85	-29.47	295						S56E	173.00		-31	NW, WNW, NWBN	MODERATE, SQUALLY		HAIL AND RAIN		FINE	0	1	0	0	1	0	128691
1789-10-01T14:00	52.37	-24.82	289						N62E	190.00		-26	NWBN, NW	STRONG GALES, HEAVY SQUALLS, MORE MODERATE, SQUALLY		HAIL		FINE	0	0	0	0	1	0	128692
1789-10-02T13:00	50.95	-20.27	300	6.7					S63E	190.00		-26	NWBN	A STRONG GALE, MORE MODERATE		SHOWERS OF RAIN		FINE	1	1	0	0	0	0	128693
1789-10-03T13:00	49.83	-15.42	335						S71E	196.00		-25	NWBN, N, N	A STRONG GALE, MORE MODERATE, STIFF GALE, HEAVY SQUALLS		RAIN AND SHOWERY	A VERY CROSS SEA	FINE	1	1	0	0	0	0	128694
1789-10-04T13:00	49.45	-11.49	268	6.7					S80E	154.00		-25	N, NNW, WNW	STRON GALE, LESS WIND, MODERATE	CLOSE	RAIN		FINE	0	1	0	0	0	0	128695
1789-10-05T12:00	49.32	-6.99	257	22.6					S88E	176.00		-24	W, SW, WNW, WBN	MODERATE, STRONG GALES, STIFF GALE		SHOWERS OF RAIN		CLOUDY	1	1	0	0	0	0	128696
1789-10-06T00:00			315		START POINT	NEBE	2	1					WBN, WNW, NW	STRONG GALES, MORE MODERATE, HEAVY SQUALLS		SHOWERS AND RAIN			1	1	0	0	0	0	128697