García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2010): Meteorological observations during RAMILLES cruise from Barnstable Bay to Bermuda started at 1814-06-04 [dataset]. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.751683, In: Jones, Philip D; Wheeler, Dennis A; Können, Gunther P; Koek, Frits B; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; García-Herrera, Ricardo (2007): Climatological observations from ship logbooks between 1750 and 1854 (release 2.1) [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/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):
Funding:
Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), grant/award no. EVK2-CT-2000-00090: Climatological Database for the Worlds Oceans: 1750-1854
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 36.037500 * Median Longitude: -64.177500 * South-bound Latitude: 30.700000 * West-bound Longitude: -68.870000 * North-bound Latitude: 42.230000 * East-bound Longitude: -59.680000
Date/Time Start: 1814-06-04T17:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1814-06-15T16:00:00
Event(s):
Ramilles_18140604_NMM_LOG/N/R/32 * Latitude Start: 42.230000 * Longitude Start: -68.870000 * Latitude End: 32.180000 * Longitude End: -63.300000 * Date/Time Start: 1814-06-04T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1814-06-15T00:00:00 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Ramilles (3rd Rate Frigate), Voyage: Barnstable Bay - Bermuda, 1st Observer: Thomas Hardy (Captain), 2nd Observer: John Hood Wolsely (2nd Officer/Lieutenant), Company: Royal Navy, Other ship information: 74G 1652BM
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | 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 | Present weather | ww | Weather description | |||
| 15 | Precipitation description | Precip descr | ||||
| 16 | Clearness | Clearness | ||||
| 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:
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Size:
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Data
| 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 ww (Weather description) | 15 Precip descr | 16 Clearness | 17 Gusts (1 If wind gusts are reported) | 18 Rain (1 If rain was reported) | 19 Fog (1 If fog was reported) | 20 Snow (1 If snow was reported) | 21 Thunder (1 If thunder and or lightning...) | 22 Hail (1 If hail was reported) | 23 Sea ice (1 If sea-ice or icebergs were...) | 24 ID (CLIWOC 2.1 line number) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1814-06-04T17:00 | 42.23 | -68.87 | 197 | 6.7 | WRECK HILL | S18E | 210 | N75E | 62.00 | -6 | SBE, SSW, S, SBE | 1AM LIGHT BREEZES 4AM MODERATE PM MODERATE MIDNIGHT FRESH BREEZES | 4AM RAIN MIDNIGHT SMALL RAIN | AM CLOUDY NOON FINE 6PM CLOUDY 8PM FINE MIDNIGH | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207155 | |
| 1814-06-05T16:00 | 42.07 | -67.38 | 114 | 2.6 | BERMUDA, SW BREAKERS | S12E | 197 | S77E | 68.00 | -10 | SBE, VARIABLE, SEBE, NE | AM FRESH BREEZES NOON LIGHT BREEZES 1PM MODERATE 4PM LIGHT BREEZES 8PM LIGHT AIRS 9PM CALM 9:30PM LIGHT AIRS MIDNIGHT MODERATE | 8AM RAIN NOON RAIN | AM CLOUDY 4PM HAZY 8PM THICK FOGGY WEATHER | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207156 | |
| 1814-06-06T16:00 | 40.35 | -66.65 | 80 | 9.3 | ST CATHERINES POINT | S10E | 163 | S73E | 108.00 | -10 | NE, E, VARIABLE | 1AM MODERATE 8AM FRESH BREEZES 2PM MODERATE BREEZES 8PM FRESH BREEZES | 1AM THICK FOGGY WEATHER 8AM CLOUDY PM CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207157 | ||
| 1814-06-07T16:00 | 37.80 | -66.28 | 170 | 9.3 | ST CATHERINES POINT | S14E | 110 | S6E | 165.00 | -10 | E, EBS, ESE, EBS, S, VARIABLE, SW, SWBS | FRESH BREEZES | AM SQUALLY 4:15 A HEAVY SQUALL FROM THE SW MIDNIGHT THUNDER AND LIGHTNING | 4AM RAIN 8AM RAIN AT TIMES 10:50AM A HEAVY SQUALL WITH RAIN, THUNDER AND LIGHTNING 1PM RAIN AT TIME | CLOUDY | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 207158 |
| 1814-06-08T16:00 | 37.42 | -65.05 | 208 | 9.3 | ST CATHERINES POINT | S8E | 103 | S60E | 41.00 | -6 | SWBW | FRESH BREEZES | 9PM SQUALLY | 9PM RAIN | AM CLOUDY NOON HAZY 1PM CLOUDY 6PM HAZY | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207159 |
| 1814-06-09T16:00 | 36.92 | -64.27 | 197 | 12.3 | ST CATHERINES POINT | S5W | 83 | -6 | SSW | AM STRONG BREEZES PM FRESH BREEZES | 1AM HEAVY SQUALLS MIDNIGHT SQUALLY | AM CLOUDY NOON HAZY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207160 | |||
| 1814-06-10T16:00 | 35.73 | -62.53 | 208 | 6.7 | ST CATHERINES POINT | S29W | 75 | S52E | 103.00 | -6 | SWBW, SW | AM FRESH BREEZES NOON MODERATE 12PM FRESH BREEZES 8PM MODERATE BREEZES | HAZY 8PM CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207161 | ||
| 1814-06-11T16:00 | 34.10 | -61.72 | 217 | 2.6 | ST CATHERINES POINT | S58W | 53 | S22E | 106.00 | -8 | SWBW, SW, VARIABLE | AM MODERATE BREEZES NOON LIGHT BREEZES PM MODERATE BREEZES | FINE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207162 | ||
| 1814-06-12T16:00 | 32.08 | -61.07 | 244 | 6.7 | ST CATHERINES POINT | S65W | 61 | S17E | 110.00 | -4 | WSW, WBS | 1AM MODERATE BREEZES 8AM MODERATE PM MODERATE BREEZES | FINE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207163 | ||
| 1814-06-13T16:00 | 31.15 | -59.68 | 255 | 9.3 | ST CATHERINES POINT | N65W | 57 | S48W | 48.00 | -4 | W, WNW, WBS, VARIABLE | FRESH BREEZES 6PM MODERATE | 1AM SQUALLY 4:30PM SQUALLY | 4:30PM RAIN | FINE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207164 |
| 1814-06-14T16:00 | 30.70 | -62.63 | 21 | 6.7 | ST CATHERINES POINT | N31W | 40 | N87E | 94.00 | -2 | NBE, NNE, VARIABLE | AM MODERATE BREEZES PM LIGHT BREEZES | AM CLOUDY PM FINE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207165 | ||
| 1814-06-15T16:00 | 31.90 | -64.00 | 88 | 2.6 | ST CATHERINES POINT | N51W | 17 | N45W | 101.00 | -2 | SE, E, SSW, S | 1AM MODERATE 8AM LIGHT BREEZES PM LIGHT BREEZES | FINE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207166 |