Citation:

PANGAEA.611088

Name: Meteorological observations during SCHIEDAM cruise from Northerly Fishing Grounds started at 1787-05-24
Published: 2010-11-03
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Published: 2010-11-03 • DOI registered: 2010-12-01

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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:

Date/Time Start: 1787-05-24T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1787-07-16T00:00:00

Event(s):

Schiedam_17870524_FAM_C22253_2 * Date/Time Start: 1787-05-24T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1787-07-16T00:00:00 * Campaign: * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Schiedam, Voyage from: Northerly Fishing Grounds

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	Image number/name	Image no/name		Identification Number of the original image
7	Landmark	Landmark		Name of first landmark
8	Bearing	Bearing		Bearing of the first landmark
9	Distance to landmark	Distance	arbitrary units	Distance to the first landmark
10	Watch	Watch		Name of the period of 4 hours which is known as a watch or duty on board ships
11	Glasses	Glasses		Number of glasses within a watch; one watch equals 8 glasses
12	Comment	Comment		Life on board
13	Comment	Comment		Any remark found in the logbook on this day about the cargo
14	Comment	Comment		Any remark, found in the logbook on this particular day, about any biological item
15	Comment 2 (continued)	Comm 2		biological item
16	Comment	Comment		Other remarks, that were not possible to put in the other remark fields
17	Comment 2 (continued)	Comm 2		Other remarks
18	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.
19	Wind force description	Wind force descr		All reported wind forces on this day
20	Present weather	ww		Weather description
21	Precipitation description	Precip descr
22	State of the sea description	State sea descr
23	Cloud type	Cloud type
24	Clearness	Clearness
25	Gusts	Gusts		1 If wind gusts are reported
26	Precipitation/Rain	Rain		1 If rain was reported
27	Fog	Fog		1 If fog was reported
28	Snow type	Snow		1 If snow was reported
29	Thunder	Thunder		1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
30	Hail	Hail		1 If hail was reported
31	Sea ice	Sea ice		1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
32	Identification	ID		CLIWOC 2.1 line number

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

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