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García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2010): Meteorological observations during SCORPION cruise from Falmouth to Port Royal started at 1800-05-05 [dataset]. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.752039, 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
Funding:
Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), grant/award no. EVK2-CT-2000-00090: Climatological Database for the Worlds Oceans: 1750-1854
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 27.620263 * Median Longitude: -28.663421 * South-bound Latitude: 13.230000 * West-bound Longitude: -56.180000 * North-bound Latitude: 49.280000 * East-bound Longitude: -6.230000
Date/Time Start: 1800-05-05T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1800-06-14T16:00:00
Event(s):
Scorpion_18000505_NMM_ADM/L/S186 * Latitude Start: 49.950000 * Longitude Start: -5.000000 * Latitude End: 17.870000 * Longitude End: -76.830000 * Date/Time Start: 1800-05-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1800-06-14T00:00:00 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Scorpion (Sloop), Voyage: Falmouth - Port Royal, 1st Observer: Charles Tinling (Captain), 2nd Observer: William Warder (2nd Officer/Lieutenant), Company: Royal Navy, Other ship information: 24G 337BM
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
DATE/TIMEDate/TimeGeocode
LATITUDELatitudeGeocode
LONGITUDELongitudeGeocode
Wind directiondddegWind 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.
Wind speedffm/scalculated from the descriptive terms of wind force given in the observations
LandmarkLandmarkName of first landmark
BearingBearingBearing of the first landmark
Distance to landmarkDistancearbitrary unitsDistance to the first landmark
CourseCourseCourse of the ship during the past 24 hours
10 DistanceDistancearbitrary unitsDistance travelled during the previous 24 hours
11 DeclinationDecldegIt 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 descriptionWind dir descrAll reported wind directions on this day. The wind direction is the direction that points to where the wind comes from.
13 Wind force descriptionWind force descrAll reported wind forces on this day
14 Present weatherwwWeather description
15 Precipitation descriptionPrecip descr
16 State of the sea descriptionState sea descr
17 ClearnessClearness
18 GustsGusts1 If wind gusts are reported
19 Precipitation/RainRain1 If rain was reported
20 FogFog1 If fog was reported
21 Snow typeSnow1 If snow was reported
22 ThunderThunder1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
23 HailHail1 If hail was reported
24 Sea iceSea ice1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
25 CommentComment
26 IdentificationIDCLIWOC 2.1 line number
Size:
722 data points

Data

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Date/Time

Latitude

Longitude

dd [deg]
(Wind direction (from which th...)

ff [m/s]
(calculated from the descripti...)

Landmark
(Name of first landmark)

Bearing
(Bearing of the first landmark)

Distance [arbitrary units]
(Distance to the first landmark)

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 
State sea descr
17 
Clearness
18 
Gusts
(1 If wind gusts are reported)
19 
Rain
(1 If rain was reported)
20 
Fog
(1 If fog was reported)
21 
Snow
(1 If snow was reported)
22 
Thunder
(1 If thunder and or lightning...)
23 
Hail
(1 If hail was reported)
24 
Sea ice
(1 If sea-ice or icebergs were...)
25 
Comment
26 
ID
(CLIWOC 2.1 line number)
1800-05-05T12:0049.28-6.233356.7USHANTS32E29S42W58.00-25NMODERATEFAIR0000000232802
1800-05-06T13:0047.62-7.9815412.3CAPE FINISTERRES7W96S35W122.00-26SFRESH BREEZES, STRONG BREEZESCLOUDY0000000232803
1800-05-07T13:0047.15-9.9814512.3CAPE FINISTERRES7E86S71W87.00-24SBESTRONG BREEZESRAINCLOUDY0100000232804
1800-05-08T13:0046.03-11.4511122.6MADEIRAS17W276S42W90.00-24SESTRONG GALESRAINHEAVY SEA FROM S0100000232805
1800-05-09T13:0045.57-12.781346.7MADEIRAS13W261S70W60.00-24SSESTRONG GALES, MODERATERAINCLOUDY0100000232806
1800-05-10T13:0045.06-13.351790.0MADEIRA-24SSWCALMCLEAR0000000232807
1800-05-11T13:0044.55-13.921452.6MADEIRAS10W241S37W46.00-24SBELIGHT AIRS AND VARIABLE, LIGHT WINDSCLOUDY0000000232808
1800-05-12T13:0043.18-15.182912.6MADEIRAS7W204S28W117.00-24NWLIGHT WINDSFINE0000000232809
1800-05-13T13:0041.32-16.032599.3MADEIRAS4W169S20W108.00-22WBNFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY0000000232810
1800-05-14T13:0040.17-15.853271.0MADEIRAS6W186S7E72.00-22NBWLIGHT AIRSFINE0000000232811
1800-05-15T13:0037.97-17.673276.7MADEIRAS6E110S33W151.00-22NBWMODERATECLEAR0000000232812
1800-05-16T13:0036.27-18.402952.6MADEIRAS12E77S19W108.00-20NWLIGHT BREEZESFINE0000000232813
1800-05-17T13:0034.95-15.95246.7MADEIRAS18W52S16W81.00-21NEMODERATEFAIR, CLEAR0000000232814
1800-05-21T13:0030.48-19.08499.3BARBADOSS65W1286S25W142.00-19ENELIGHT AIRS, FRESH BREEZESFINE, THICK0000000232815
1800-05-22T13:0028.83-20.20372.6BARBADOSS67W800S31W114.00-19NEBELIGHT WINDSFINE0000000232816
1800-05-23T13:0027.15-21.75396.7BARBADOSS68W767S39W130.00-17NEBEMODERATE BREEZESFINE0000000232817
1800-05-24T14:0025.88-23.43299.3BARBADOSS70W744S50W118.00-16NEFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY0000000232818
1800-05-25T14:0024.80-24.57976.7BARBADOSS71W678S47W91.00-16ESEMODERATEHAZY0000000232819
1800-05-26T14:0023.88-25.90526.7BARBADOSS7W664S57W101.00-16ENEMODERATEFINE0000000232820
1800-05-27T14:0022.93-27.82656.7BARBADOSS71W635S60W103.00-14EBNMODERATE BREEZESCLOUDY0000000232821
1800-05-28T14:0022.10-29.70336.7BARBADOSS73W610S64W114.00-12NEMODERATE BREEZESFINE0000000232822
1800-05-29T14:0021.05-31.18336.7BARBADOSS74W570S53W104.00-12NEMODERATE BREEZESFINE0000000232823
1800-05-30T14:0020.50-32.30332.6BARBADOSS74W530S62W71.00-12NELIGHT AIRS, LIGHT BREEZESFINE0000000232824
1800-05-31T14:0020.18-33.13351.0BARBADOSS74W502S67W151.00-10NELIGHT AIRSFINE0000000232825
1800-06-01T14:0019.73-34.23586.7BARBADOSS502S61W59.00-10ENEMODERATEFINE0000000232826
1800-06-02T14:0019.18-35.83696.7BARBADOSS76W492S71W93.00-10EBNMODERATEFINE0000000232827
1800-06-03T14:0018.67-37.45696.7BARBADOSS76WS69W91.00-10EBNMODERATEFINE0000000232828
1800-06-04T15:0018.25-38.78729.3BARBADOSS67W410S73W90.00-7EBNFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY0000000232829
1800-06-05T15:0017.88-40.43726.7BARBADOSS76W387S74W88.00-7EBNMODERATEFINECLEAR0000000232830
1800-06-06T15:0017.30-41.42631.0BARBADOSS77W363S58W65.00-5ENELIGHT AIRSFINE0000000232831
1800-06-07T15:0016.12-43.571101.0BARBADOSS79W319S57W101.00-3ESELIGHT AIRSFINE0000000232832
1800-06-08T15:0015.15-45.28656.7BARBADOSS82W284S56W119.00-3ENEMODERATEFINE0000000232833
1800-06-09T15:0013.93-47.08989.3BARBADOSS86W245S56W126.00-3EBSFRESH BREEZESFINE0000000232834
1800-06-10T15:0013.35-48.081126.7BARBADOSW230S75W109.00-1ESEMODERATE BREEZESFINE0000000232835
1800-06-11T15:0013.28-51.02786.7BARBADOSS88W174S88W120.00-1EBNMODERATE BREEZESCLEAR0000000232836
1800-06-12T15:0013.27-51.98676.7BARBADOSW153W110.00-1ENEMODERATE BREEZESFINE0000000232837
1800-06-13T16:0013.33-54.05696.7BARBADOSS87W114N84W122.001ENEMODERATEFINE0000000a trivial correction was made in this observation232838
1800-06-14T16:0013.23-56.186912.3BARBADOSW60S83W125.001ENEMODERATE, STRONG BREEZES WITH HEAVY SQUALLSFINE0000000232839