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: 23.915000 * Median Longitude: -83.668750 * South-bound Latitude: 22.920000 * West-bound Longitude: -84.950000 * North-bound Latitude: 24.700000 * East-bound Longitude: -81.430000

Date/Time Start: 1789-01-18T18:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1789-01-25T17:00:00

Event(s):

La_Venus_17890118_MS_320_007 * Latitude Start: 23.200000 * Longitude Start: -81.400000 * Latitude End: 23.520000 * Longitude End: -81.430000 * Date/Time Start: 1789-01-18T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1789-01-25T00:00:00 * Campaign: * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: La Venus (Fragata), Voyage: La Habana - Canal De Bahama, 1st Observer: Fco. Santisteban (Capitan)

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	Course	Course		Course of the ship during the past 24 hours
9	Distance	Distance	arbitrary units	Distance travelled during the previous 24 hours
10	Comment	Comment		Other remarks, that were not possible to put in the other remark fields
11	Comment 2 (continued)	Comm 2		Other remarks
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	Wind force description	Wind force descr		All reported wind forces on this day
15	Present weather	ww		Weather description
16	State of the sea description	State sea descr
17	Gusts	Gusts		1 If wind gusts are reported
18	Precipitation/Rain	Rain		1 If rain was reported
19	Fog	Fog		1 If fog was reported
20	Snow type	Snow		1 If snow was reported
21	Thunder	Thunder		1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
22	Hail	Hail		1 If hail was reported
23	Sea ice	Sea ice		1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
24	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 Latitude	3 Longitude	4 dd [deg]	5 ff [m/s]	6 Landmark	7 Bearing	8 Course	9 Distance [arbitrary units]	10 Comment	11 Comm 2	12 Decl [deg]	13 Wind dir descr	14 Wind force descr	15 ww	16 State sea descr	24 ID
1789-01-18T18:00	23.88	-82.53	52				NNO		PAPEL CURIOSO QUE HACE VER LOS EFECTOS DE CORRIENTES EN LAS CERCANÍAS DEL CANAL DE BAHAMA (...) FORMADO POR EL TENIENTE DE FRAGATA D. JUAN CORONADO, UNO DE LOS OFICIALES DE SU DOTACIÓN		7	NE	REGULAR	EL VTO FUE VARIABLE DURANTE LA NOCHE Y REFRESCÓ POR EL E 1/4 NE Y NE, (...) PERO A LAS 3 1/2 DE LA MAÑANA SE LLAMÓ DE PRONTO AL ESE Y (...) ESCASEOSE	DEL VTO	143108
1789-01-19T18:00	24.05	-83.38	142	9.3	PLACER MÁS INMEDIATO A LOS CAYOS	NNO					7	SE	FRESQUITO	ACELAJADOS	DELVTO	143109
1789-01-20T18:00	24.15	-84.55	165	12.3			SO 3º O				7	SSE	FRESCO	EL VTO REFRESCÓ BASTANTE A MEDIA NOCHE (...) DEL SE. (...) CARIZ DE TPO CLARO.	GRUESA	143110
1789-01-21T18:00	24.53	-84.95	145	12.3			SO 5º S	32.50	HALLADO LA NOTABLE DIFERENCIA DE 33 14 MÁS AL N QUE LA ESTIMA VEO QUE TOMANDO POR PUNTO DE SALIDA EL LLEGADO DE AYER CORREGIDO DE CORRIENTES Y DISMINUÍDO DIARIAMENTE,NO ADMITE NINGUNA CORRECCIÓN,	PUES (...) NO PUDO AUMENTAR SIN QUE HUBIESE PICADO SONDA O VISTO TIERRA O CAYO.	7	SE 1/4 S	FRESCO	AMANECIÓ MÁS BENIGNO EL TPO Y EL VTO POR EL S (...).CARICES CLAROS	GRUESA	143111
1789-01-22T18:00	24.70	-84.73	142	4.6			ENE	14.66			7	SE	FLOJO	AMANECIÓ BUEN TPO, VIENTECITO GALENO AL E. CARICES CLAROS.	LLANA	143112
1789-01-23T18:00	22.92	-83.93	30	9.3			S 50º 30 E	115.00			7	NNE	FRESQUITO	CARICES CLAROS.	ALGUNA MAREJADA DEL VTO	143113
1789-01-24T18:00	23.57	-83.85	52	12.3			SE 4º E	40.00			7	NE	FRESCO	CARICES DE BRISA	GRUESA	143114
1789-01-25T17:00	23.52	-81.43	73	9.3	ISLA ANGUILA	O 5º N	S1/4SE	62.00	(NOTA: AQUÍ TERMINA EL DOCUMENTO).		5	ENE	FRESQUITO	CLARO	LLANA	143115