There are two components to the Makarov collection. 1) 19th Century ships, 27 ships, including Vitiaz for 1873-1889 (including location, date, and SST only) 2) Vitiaz, 1886-1890, including location, date, SST, AT, Wdir, Wforce Translation specification for the S.O. Makarov 19th Century Ships ======================================================================== Note: These records do NOT have HR values, only YR, MO, and DY. The positions, dates, and SST values for ship Vitiaz in this group appear to align with some of the more frequent records (that do have HR specifications) in the special Vitiaz collection (item 2) above. This might cause a 153 record duplication. Each ship's data is provided in a small separate file. The 27 ship files are processed as if they are one and given the common name 'maka19th'. Within these 27 files there are 31 records that have zero length. There was one data line (in file kouegda) without an end of line indicator, which was added. Original data counts may have estimated these files to have 871 total records, but in reality (subtracting 31) there are 840 records. The control record for this file will reflect 840 records. B10 - computed internally in wrlmr6:01A YR - 4-digit year from each record, pos. 1-4 MO - 2-digit month from each record, pos. 5-6 DY - 2-digit day from each record, pos. 7-8 HR - TI - LON - each record whole degrees, pos. 14-16 whole minutes, pos. 17-18 and east or west, pos. 19 (e or w) flon = lod + lom/60. if(ew.eq.'w')flon = 360.0 - flon LAT - each record whole degrees, pos. 9-10 whole minutes, pos. 11-12 and north or south, pos. 13 (n or s) flat = lad + lam/60. if(ns.eq.'s')flat = -flat LI - set = 4 DCK - set = 731 SID - set = 56 PT - set = 5 T1 - set = 0 AT WBT SST - degrees C x 10, pos. 20-22 SI C1 not set, but documentation gives some information. ----------------------------------------------------------------- File Name Number Observation of the ship of reports period ------------------------------------------------------------------ ALCESTE* Alceste 5 1817 AMERICA America (russ.) 1 1869 ASTROLAB L'Astrolabe 1 1828 BLOSSOM Blossom 15 1826-1828 BOGATIR Bogatir (russ.) 18 1873-1874 CHALLENG Challenger 66 1874-1875 GAZELLE Gazell 5 1875 HERALD Herald 2 1846 INVESTIG Investigator 2 1850 KOUEGDA Kouegda (russ.) 4 1869 KREISSER Kreisser (russ.) 13 1890 LABONITE La Bonite 4 1836-1837 NADEJDA Nadejda (russ.) 12 1804-1806 NAHIMOV Nahimov (russ.) 1 1891 NAHODKA Nahodka (russ.) 5 1869 NAIESDNI Naiesdnik (russ.) 46 1888 NOVARA Novara 5 1858 OLIVOUZA Olivouza (russ.) 1 1851 PREDPRIA Predpriatie (russ.) 6 1824-1825 RODGERS Rodgers 3 1855 RURIK Rurik (russ.) 25 1815-1817 TUSCAROR Tuscarora 365 1873-1874 VARIAG Variag (russ.) 7 1865-1866 VEGA Vega (russ.) 60 1878-1879 VENUS La Venus 6 1837 VITIAZ Vitiaz (russ.) 153 1873-1889 VOSTOK Vostok (russ.) 9 1868 ------------------------------------------------------------- * One record within file ALCESTE was found to have a month value of 12, whereas all other data were from month 7. All other time and position parameters indicate this was a key error. The error was corrected, i.e. 12 --> 7 and the data were processed into COADS LMR6 II - set II = 6 ID(8) - place the file name, which is the first 8 characters or less of the ship name, as shown in C1 Supplemental Attachment sup(1:22) = Original input ascii record. These records are described in the original documentation as: The Russian and foreign ships in the Northern Pacific of the XIX century. All data are from the book by S.O.Makarov "Vitiaz and Pacific ocean", Saint- Petersburg, 1894. Each observation in the file is represented in the form of one symbol line. The length of the line is 22 symbols. The format of the line is the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------ # Variable Positions True Comment value ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Year 1-4 1803-1891 2 Month 5-6 3 Date 7-8 4 Degrees of latitude 9-10 5 Minutes of latitude 11-12 6 Sign of latitude 13 s,n s-south latitude, n-north latitude 7 Degrees of longitude 14-16 8 Minutes of longitude 17-18 9 Sign of longitude 19 e,w e-east longitude, w-west longitude 10 Sea surface tempera- 20-22 degrees centigrate x 10 ture ------------------------------------------------------------------- ===================================================================== Translation specification for the S.O. Makarov Ship Vitiaz ======================================================================== Five non-standard data records were found in the vitiaz data file. No attempt was made to recover these data. Three records were found to have zero length and two records were found to be only 35 characters when 36 characters were expected. Of the original 2725 data lines 2720 were translated into COADS LMR6 format. B10 - computed internally in wrlmr6:01A YR - 4-digit year from each record, pos. 1-4 MO - 2-digit month from each record, pos. 5-6 DY - 2-digit day from each record, pos. 7-8 HR - 2-digit hour and 2-digit minutes, pos. 9-12 Time of day was further specified with one character in position. 13 a = before noon (0-11 hour) p = after noon (12-23 hour) If time of day indicator = p, 12 was added to the hour. All times were assumed to be in local time. lmrlib function and routines ixdtnd, rxltut, and rxnddt are used to compute GMT hour and date as necessary. TI - set = 2 LON - each record whole degrees, pos. 14-16 whole minutes, pos. 17-18 and east or west, pos. 19 (e or w) flon = lod + lom/60. if(ew.eq.'w')flon = 360.0 - flon LAT - each record whole degrees, pos. 9-10 whole minutes, pos. 11-12 and north or south, pos. 13 (n or s) flat = lad + lam/60. if(ns.eq.'s')flat = -flat LI - set = 4 DCK - set = 731 SID - set = 56 PT - set = 5 DI - set = 1 (32-point compass) D - pos. 32-34, with s=south, n=north, w=west, and e=east A 3-character direction was available, which was assumed to refer to the points of a 32-point compass, omitting "by". The following table shows code values (from Release 1, Table F2-1), compass points (from US Marine Meteorological Journal Collection instructions, c. 1878-1893), the frequency of occurrences of letter combinations in the Vitiaz file, and resultant degrees (Release 1, Table F2-1). Code Compass points Vitiaz Degrees ---- -------------- ------- ------- 1 N by E --- 11 2 NNE 103 nne 23 3 NE by N 69 nen 34 4 NE 170 ne 45 5 NE by E 68 nee 56 6 ENE 63 ene 68 7 E by N 50 en 79 8 E 60 e 90 9 E by S 27 es 101 10 ESE 33 ese 113 11 SE by E 31 see 124 12 SE 85 se 135 13 SE by S 26 ses 146 14 SSE 36 sse 158 15 S by E --- 169 16 S 60 s 180 17 S by W --- 191 18 SSW 39 ssw 203 19 SW by S 22 sws 214 20 SW 90 sw 225 21 SW by W 16 sww 236 22 WSW 28 wsw 248 23 W by S 20 ws 259 24 W 45 w 270 25 W by N 26 wn 281 26 WNW 38 wnw 293 27 NW by W 37 nww 304 28 NW 112 nw 315 29 NW by N 23 nwn 326 30 NNW 52 nnw 338 31 N by W --- 349 32 N 71 n 360 1222 *** <-- missing 3 <-- blank = missing Note that four 32-point compass values were not represented in the Vitiaz collection: N by E, S by E, S by W, and N by W. It is speculated that these were erroneously folded into the directions, NE, SE, SW, and NW respectively (since dropping "by" does not yield a unique designation in these four cases only). These latter four directions show larger counts than surrounding compass components, but we have no way to resolve the assumed ambiguity. WI set = 5 W Beaufort force number, pos. 35-36 A 0-10 point scale was used. This scale was assumed to be a truncated 0-12 point scale, and the forces were translated to m/s using the lmrlib function fxbfms bf = ** was set to missing. T1 - set = 0 AT - degrees C x 10, pos. 28-31 WBT SST - degrees C x 10, pos. 25-27 SI C1 not set, but the Vitiaz was a Russian ship. ----------------------------------------------------------------- File Name Number Observation of the ship of reports period ------------------------------------------------------------------ VITIAZ Vitiaz (russ.) 2720 1886-1890 II - set = 6 ID(8) - use the file name, VITIAZ ===================================================================== Supplemental Attachement: sup(1:36) = input ASCII record. Format of these records as described by the original documentation is: The Russian ship "Vitiaz" for 1886-1889. All data are from the book S.O.Makarov "Vitiaz and Pacific Ocean", Saint-Petersburg, 1894. Each observation is represented as one symbol line. The length of the line is 36 symbols. The format of the line is the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------ # Variable Positions True Comment value ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Year 1-4 1886-1890 2 Month 5-6 3 Date 7-8 4 Hours 9-10 5 Minutes 11-12 6 Time of day 13 a,p a-before noon(0-11 hour) p-after noon(12-23 hour) 7 Degrees of latitude 14-15 8 Minutes of latitude 16-17 9 Sign of latitude 18 s,n s-south latitude n-north latitude 10 Degrees of longitude 19-21 11 Minutes of longitude 22-23 12 Sign of longitude 24 e,w e-east longitude w-west longitude 13 Sea surface 25-27 degrees centigrate x 10 temperature 14 Air temperature 28-31 degrees centigrate x 10 15 Wind direction 32-34 s,n,w,e s-south, n-north e-east, w-west 16 Speed of wind 35-36 0-10 Scale of Bofort -------------------------------------------------------------------