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: 48.750000 * Median Longitude: -63.185000 * South-bound Latitude: 48.370000 * West-bound Longitude: -63.450000 * North-bound Latitude: 49.130000 * East-bound Longitude: -62.920000

Date/Time Start: 1820-06-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1820-06-15T00:00:00

Event(s):

Newcastle_18200609_PRO_ADM_51/3315 * Latitude Start: 43.400000 * Longitude Start: -63.030000 * Latitude End: 48.750000 * Longitude End: -63.100000 * Date/Time Start: 1820-06-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1820-06-15T00:00:00 * Campaign: * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Newcastle (Frigate), Voyage: Halifax - Quebec, 1st Observer: Arthur Fanshawe (Captain), Company: Royal Navy, Other ship information: 60G 1573T. LENGTH 177FT, BEAM 44FT 4IN, DEPTH 14FT 11IN, COMPLEMENT 450. ARMAMENT 26 32PDR, 34 24PDR GUNS. THREE MASTS, SQUARE RIGGED. BUILt IN 1814 IN LONDON AND HULKED IN 1824.

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	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.
11	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.
12	Wind force description	Wind force descr		All reported wind forces on this day
13	Clearness	Clearness
14	Gusts	Gusts		1 If wind gusts are reported
15	Precipitation/Rain	Rain		1 If rain was reported
16	Fog	Fog		1 If fog was reported
17	Snow type	Snow		1 If snow was reported
18	Thunder	Thunder		1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
19	Hail	Hail		1 If hail was reported
20	Sea ice	Sea ice		1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
21	Identification	ID		CLIWOC 2.1 line number

License:

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

Size:

113 data points

Data

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1 Date/Time	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	4 dd [deg]	5 ff [m/s]	6 Landmark	7 Bearing	8 Distance [arbitrary units]	9 -	10 Decl [deg]	11 Wind dir descr	12 Wind force descr	13 Clearness	21 ID
1820-06-09T00:00	46.70		326	2.6	CAPE ST LAVIOTE	E	6	1		NBW, NWBN, NW, NWBN	AM LIGHT BREEZES, PM FRESH BREEZES	AM CLOUDY, PM FINE	176166
1820-06-10T00:00	47.18		281	2.6	DEADMANS ISLAND	EBS	11	1		WBN, N, VARIABLE, WBN	LIGHT BREEZES	AM CLOUDY, PM FINE	176167
1820-06-11T16:00	48.37	-62.92	362	2.6	BONAVENTURE	N72W	37	1	-23	WNW, NW, NWBN, VARIABLE	AM LIGHT BREEZES, PM MODERATE BREEZES	AM FINE, PM CLEAR	176168
1820-06-12T16:00	49.13	-63.45	157	2.6				1	-23	NNW, NNE, VARIABLE, S	AM LIGHT BREEZES, PM MODERATE BREEZES	AM CLOUDY, PM HAZY	176169
1820-06-13T00:00	49.23		45	2.6	CAPE CHAT	WBS1/2S	5			NBE, VARIABLE, NE	AM LIGHT BREEZES, PM LIGHT WINDS	AM CLOUDY, PM FINE	176170
1820-06-14T00:00	48.68		90	2.6	FATHER POINT	SWBW	7			E, ESE, VARIABLE, SSW1/2W, E	AM LIGHT BREEZES, PM LIGHT AIRS	AM HAZY	176171
1820-06-15T00:00			90	0.0	RUNNING BETWEEN GREEN ISLAND AND HARE ISLAND					VARIABLE, NE, ENE, E	AM LIGHT AIRS AND VARIABLE INCLINING TO CALM, PM LIGHT BREEZES	PM CLOUDY	176172