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: -34.691667 * Median Longitude: -170.228333 * South-bound Latitude: -39.400000 * West-bound Longitude: -173.020000 * North-bound Latitude: -31.020000 * East-bound Longitude: -167.780000

Date/Time Start: 1774-10-12T23:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1774-10-18T00:00:00

Event(s):

Resolution_17741012_NMM_BEAGLEHOLE * Latitude Start: -31.020000 * Longitude Start: -167.780000 * Latitude End: -41.900000 * Longitude End: 174.950000 * Date/Time Start: 1774-10-12T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1774-10-18T00:00:00 * Campaign: * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Resolution (Sloop, Three Ma), Voyage: New Caledonia - New Zealand, 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	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	Comment	Comment		Other remarks, that were not possible to put in the other remark fields
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	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)

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Data

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1 Date/Time	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	4 dd [deg]	5 ff [m/s]	6 Course	7 Comment	8 Decl [deg]	9 Wind dir descr	10 Wind force descr	11 ww	12 Precip descr	13 Clearness	15 Rain	18 Thunder	21 ID
1774-10-12T23:00	-31.02	-167.78		9.3		WATCH - 167:2.5W	11		FRESH BREEZES			CLEAR	0	0	210676
1774-10-13T23:00	-31.52	-168.33	67	4.6		WATCH - 167:35W	11	EBN, NEBE	GENTLE GALES	PLEASANT			0	0	210677
1774-10-14T23:00	-33.15	-168.73	45		SE		11	NEBN		FINE PLEASANT WEATHER			0	0	210678
1774-10-15T23:00	-35.53	-170.83		19.0		WATCH - 170:11W	11		PM MODERATE GALES, AM FRESH GALES			PM CLEAR, AM CLOUDY	0	0	210679
1774-10-17T00:00	-37.53	-172.68	36	9.3		WATCH - 171:56W	13	NNE	FRESH BREEZES	PLEASANT			0	0	210680
1774-10-18T00:00	-39.40	-173.02	13	19.0			13	N	FRESH GALES, MIDNIGHT HEAVY SQUALLS	MIDNIGHT THUNDER AND LIGHTNING	MIDNIGHT RAIN	CLOUDY	1	1	210681