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: 31.372500 * Median Longitude: -78.593750 * South-bound Latitude: 29.470000 * West-bound Longitude: -79.760000 * North-bound Latitude: 32.730000 * East-bound Longitude: -77.220000

Date/Time Start: 1778-09-02T17:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1778-09-09T17:00:00

Event(s):

Perseus_17780902_NMM_ADM/L/P143 * Latitude Start: 29.750000 * Longitude Start: -80.250000 * Latitude End: 31.830000 * Longitude End: -77.920000 * Date/Time Start: 1778-09-02T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1778-09-09T00:00:00 * Campaign: * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Perseus (6th Rate Frigate), Voyage: St Augustines (Florida) - Charlestown, 1st Observer: George Keith Elphinstone (Captain), Company: Royal Navy, Other ship information: 20G 429BM

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	Course	Course		Course of the ship during the past 24 hours
10	Distance	Distance	arbitrary units	Distance travelled during the previous 24 hours
11	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.
12	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.
13	Wind force description	Wind force descr		All reported wind forces on this day
14	Precipitation description	Precip descr
15	Clearness	Clearness
16	Gusts	Gusts		1 If wind gusts are reported
17	Precipitation/Rain	Rain		1 If rain was reported
18	Fog	Fog		1 If fog was reported
19	Snow type	Snow		1 If snow was reported
20	Thunder	Thunder		1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
21	Hail	Hail		1 If hail was reported
22	Sea ice	Sea ice		1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
23	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 Course (Course of the ship during the...)	10 Distance [arbitrary units] (Distance travelled during the...)	11 Decl [deg] (It is generally accepted by t...)	12 Wind dir descr (All reported wind directions ...)	13 Wind force descr (All reported wind forces on t...)	14 Precip descr	15 Clearness	17 Rain (1 If rain was reported)	23 ID (CLIWOC 2.1 line number)
1778-09-02T17:00	29.47	-79.76	252		ST AUGUSTINE	N74W	27	S74W	82.00	4	S, SSW, SWBW, WSW	FIRST FRESH BREEZES AND SQUALLY	RAIN AT TIMES		1	186476
1778-09-03T17:00	29.70	-79.05	27	2.6	ST AUGUSTINE	N85W	39	N69E	40.00	4	W, NNW, NNE	LIGHT BREEZES	HEAVY RAIN	CLOUDY	1	186477
1778-09-04T17:00	31.43	-79.28	38		ST AUGUSTINE	S74W	47	N11E	120.00	4	NE, NEBE, NE, NEBN	SQUALLY	RAIN		1	186478
1778-09-05T17:00	31.73	-79.03	72	19.0	ST AUGUSTINE	S53W	64	N34E	28.00	4	NE, NEBE, ENE	FRESH GALES AND SQUALLY			0	186479
1778-09-06T17:00	31.87	-78.68	83	19.0	ST AUGUSTINE	S47:39W	60	N24E	20.00	4	NEBE, NE, EBN	FRESH GALES AND VERY HARD SQUALLS	RAIN		1	186480
1778-09-07T17:00	31.75	-78.19	27	19.0	ST AUGUSTINE	S53:20W	65	S24E	25.00	4	NE, ENE, NNE	FRESH GALES AND VERY HARD SQUALLS	RAIN		1	186481
1778-09-08T17:00	32.30	-77.54	342	19.0	ST AUGUSTINE	S46:50W	72	N37E	41.00	4	NEBN, NNE, NE, NNW	FRESH GALES AND VERY HARD SQUALLS	RAIN		1	186482
1778-09-09T17:00	32.73	-77.22	360	6.7	CHARLES TOWN LIGHTHOUSE	S58W	28	N16E	27.00	0	NW, W, NBW, N	FRESH GALES AND VERY HARD SQUALLS, THEN MORE MODERATE	RAIN	LATTER CLEAR	1	186483