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:

Date/Time Start: 1759-08-19T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1759-08-25T00:00:00

Event(s):

La_Fleur_de_Lys_17590819_COTE_4/JJ/22 * Date/Time Start: 1759-08-19T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1759-08-25T00:00:00 * Campaign: * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: La Fleur De Lys, Voyage from: Coastal, 1st Observer: D'Oisy (Capitan)

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Comment
1	DATE/TIME	Date/Time		Geocode
2	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.
3	Wind speed	ff	m/s	calculated from the descriptive terms of wind force given in the observations
4	Landmark	Landmark		Name of first landmark
5	Bearing	Bearing		Bearing of the first landmark
6	-	-		1 If position is considered to be coastal (in port or near coastal disturbances)
7	Comment	Comment		Other remarks, that were not possible to put in the other remark fields
8	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.
9	Wind force description	Wind force descr		All reported wind forces on this day
10	Present weather	ww		Weather description
11	State of the sea description	State sea descr
12	Gusts	Gusts		1 If wind gusts are reported
13	Precipitation/Rain	Rain		1 If rain was reported
14	Fog	Fog		1 If fog was reported
15	Snow type	Snow		1 If snow was reported
16	Thunder	Thunder		1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
17	Hail	Hail		1 If hail was reported
18	Sea ice	Sea ice		1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
19	Identification	ID		CLIWOC 2.1 line number

License:

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

Size:

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Data

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1 Date/Time	2 dd [deg]	3 ff [m/s]	4 Landmark	5 Bearing	6 -	7 Comment	8 Wind dir descr	9 Wind force descr	10 ww	11 State sea descr	19 ID
1759-08-19T00:00	90	6.7			1	PARTY DU PORT AU PRINCE	DU E	JOLY FRAIS			137101
1759-08-20T00:00	270	0.0					DU ESE AU O ET OSO	CALME			137102
1759-08-21T00:00	113	4.6					AU ESE	PETITE FRAIS			137103
1759-08-22T00:00	68	9.3					AU ENE	BON FRAIS	CALME		137104
1759-08-23T00:00	90	15.4	LA POINTE O DE LA TORTUË	S			AU E	GRAND FRAIS		GROSSE	137105
1759-08-24T00:00	90	15.4					DU E ET ENE ET NE	GRAND VENT		EMBELY	137106
1759-08-25T00:00	45	9.3			1	ARRIVÉ AU CAP DU PORT AU PRINCE	AU NE	BON FRAIS			137107