Weather codes
This table contains codes and symbols that were frequently used in the so-called abstracts or extract logbooks, used in The Netherlands. Since it was not possible to key most of the symbols, we designed a code for it.



Table name: ShipLogbookID

Field name
Start
End
Format
Description
Weather Code
1 10 A10 Code used in the fields: Weather, ShapeClouds, Clearness, StateSea and CurrentDir in many of the Dutch logbooks
Description
11 65 A55 Most likely description of what is expressed by the code/symbol
Symbol
66 113 A46 Accompanying images (images can be found in the file "symbols.zip" and should be extracted in the same folder as the database and this file).