García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2010): Meteorological observations during RESOLUTION cruise from Tahiti to Tonga started at 1774-06-05 [dataset]. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.751747, 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: -18.045294 * Median Longitude: -161.022941 * South-bound Latitude: -19.380000 * West-bound Longitude: -170.330000 * North-bound Latitude: -16.800000 * East-bound Longitude: -152.630000
Date/Time Start: 1774-06-05T22:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1774-06-21T23:00:00
Event(s):
Resolution_17740605_NMM_BEAGLEHOLE * Latitude Start: -16.800000 * Longitude Start: -152.630000 * Latitude End: -19.380000 * Longitude End: -170.330000 * Date/Time Start: 1774-06-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1774-06-21T00:00:00 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Resolution (Sloop, Three Ma), Voyage: Tahiti - Tonga, 1st Observer: James Cook (Captain), Company: Royal Navy, Other ship information: LENGTH 110FT 8IN, BEAM 30FT 5IN, DEPTH 13FT 1IN, DISPLACEMENT 461BM; 16 GUNS 6PDS; COMPLEMENT 110. BUILD IN 1770 AT WHITBY, UK. FIRST NAMED DRAKE, THAN MARQUIS OF GRANBY. BESTOWED BY THE ADMIRALITY IN 1772. CAPTURED IN 1782 BY THE FRENCH.
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 | Course | Course | Course of the ship during the past 24 hours | |||
| 7 | Distance | Distance | arbitrary units | Distance travelled during the previous 24 hours | ||
| 8 | 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. | ||
| 9 | 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. | |||
| 10 | Wind force description | Wind force descr | All reported wind forces on this day | |||
| 11 | Present weather | ww | Weather description | |||
| 12 | Precipitation description | Precip descr | ||||
| 13 | State of the sea description | State sea descr | ||||
| 14 | Clearness | Clearness | ||||
| 15 | Gusts | Gusts | 1 If wind gusts are reported | |||
| 16 | Precipitation/Rain | Rain | 1 If rain was reported | |||
| 17 | Fog | Fog | 1 If fog was reported | |||
| 18 | Snow type | Snow | 1 If snow was reported | |||
| 19 | Thunder | Thunder | 1 If thunder and or lightning was reported | |||
| 20 | Hail | Hail | 1 If hail was reported | |||
| 21 | Sea ice | Sea ice | 1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported | |||
| 22 | Identification | ID | CLIWOC 2.1 line number |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
273 data points
Data
| 1 Date/Time | 2 Latitude | 3 Longitude | 4 dd [deg] | 5 ff [m/s] | 6 Course | 7 Distance [arbitrary units] | 8 Decl [deg] | 9 Wind dir descr | 10 Wind force descr | 11 ww | 12 Precip descr | 13 State sea descr | 14 Clearness | 15 Gusts | 16 Rain | 17 Fog | 18 Snow | 19 Thunder | 20 Hail | 21 Sea ice | 22 ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1774-06-05T22:00 | -16.80 | -152.63 | 97 | 4.6 | S67:30W | 69.00 | 7 | E | GENTLE BREEZES | FINE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210659 | |||
| 1774-06-06T22:00 | -16.83 | -154.22 | 52 | 4.6 | W, S | 79.00 | 7 | E-NE | GENTLE GALES | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210660 | |||
| 1774-06-07T22:00 | -17.20 | -155.57 | 7 | S74W | 81.00 | 7 | NE-N | PM FRESH BREEZES, AM SQUALLY | AM UNSETTLED | AM HEAVY SHOWERS OF RAIN | PM CLOUDY | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210661 | ||
| 1774-06-08T22:00 | -17.53 | -156.02 | 362 | S55W | 35.00 | 7 | VARIABLE | VARIABLE | UNSETTLED | HEAVY SHOWERS OF RAIN | GREAT SWELL FROM SSW | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210662 | ||
| 1774-06-09T22:00 | -17.80 | -156.72 | 52 | 2.6 | S68W | 44.00 | 7 | NE | LIGHT BREEZES | SWELL AS YESTERDAY | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210663 | ||
| 1774-06-10T22:00 | -17.80 | -157.45 | 362 | W | 44.00 | 7 | VARIABLE | PM LIGHT BREEZES, REMAINDER VARIABLE | GREAT IRREGULAR SWELL MOSTLY FROM S | PM CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210664 | |||
| 1774-06-11T23:00 | -17.77 | -158.15 | 143 | 0.0 | WN | 42.00 | 8 | E, SE | SOMETIMES GENTLE BREEZES, OTHER TIMES CALM | SHOWERS OF RAIN | S SWELL CONTINUES | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210665 | ||
| 1774-06-12T23:00 | -18.17 | -159.48 | 143 | S72:30W | 81.00 | 8 | SE | SQUALLY | UNSETTLED. TOWARDS NOON FAIR | RAINY | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210666 | |||
| 1774-06-13T23:00 | -18.75 | -161.48 | 98 | 12.3 | S73W | 120.00 | 8 | SE-E | FRESH TRADE | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210667 | |||
| 1774-06-14T23:00 | -18.58 | -162.75 | 234 | 2.6 | N82W | 74.00 | 9 | E, SW | FIRST PART FRESH GALES, REMAINDER LITTLE WIND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210668 | ||||
| 1774-06-15T23:00 | -18.45 | -162.88 | 234 | 1.0 | NW | 12.00 | 9 | SW, CALM, SW | PM CALM, REMAINDER LIGHT AIRS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210669 | ||||
| 1774-06-16T23:00 | -18.18 | -163.22 | 178 | 2.6 | N50W | 25.00 | 9 | S, SBE | LIGHT BREEZES | CLEAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210670 | |||
| 1774-06-17T23:00 | -18.05 | -164.47 | 189 | 4.6 | N84W | 72.00 | 9 | S | GENTLE BREEZES | PLEASANT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210671 | |||
| 1774-06-18T23:00 | -18.23 | -165.97 | 144 | 4.6 | W3/4S | 77.00 | 9 | SE | GENTLE BREEZES | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210672 | |||
| 1774-06-19T23:00 | -18.42 | -167.18 | 99 | 4.6 | W3/4S | 80.00 | 9 | E | GENTLE BREEZES | CLEAR PLEASANT WEATHER | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210673 | |||
| 1774-06-20T23:00 | -18.83 | -168.87 | 100 | 19.0 | S75:30W | 99.00 | 10 | E | GENTLE GALES, FRESH TOWARDS NOON | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210674 | ||||
| 1774-06-21T23:00 | -19.38 | -170.33 | 55 | 4.6 | S81W | 47.00 | 10 | E-NE | GENTLE BREEZES | FAIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210675 |