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JASMIN Notebook Service Environment Updates

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:30:00 +0000

Dear JASMIN Users,

We are making some changes to the software environments provided by the JASMIN notebook service, in order to make it more compatible with the environment on the rest of JASMIN. The environments provided on the notebook service will now be identical to that provided on the sci machines and LOTUS.

Data Incident - New Year Update

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Dear users, We have an update to share with you regarding our progress on the Archive data incident that occurred on the 18th November 2025.

Improved local UK weather data freely available, Met Office Crowd-grid released via the CEDA Archive

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce that a new dataset from the Met Office: Crowd-Grid is now available in the CEDA Archive.

Data Incident Christmas Update

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:30:00 +0000

This is an update on the Archive data incident that occurred on 18th November 2025 - see previous updates here.

We are making good progress with recovering data back into the Archive and have made significant progress. Over 1.6 Petabytes of data have been recovered to a holding area - 1.3 Petabytes of this has now been moved to its correct location in the Archive. Most of this should now be available to users - we are doing some final checks for data permissions.

Support over the Christmas period and JASMIN updates

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Dear JASMIN and CEDA users,

This message includes information about JASMIN and CEDA support arrangements over the Christmas period and important updates on JASMIN services:

CEDA Annual Report Out Now!

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Our latest annual report is now available! The report presents key statistics about the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for the past year (2024 - 2025) as well as a series of snapshots of activity, expressed as short highlight reports.

Important Copernicus Sentinel Data Survey

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000

We would like to encourage the community to complete the following survey about the use of Sentinel satellite data.

Do you use Copernicus Sentinel satellite data? Copernicus services or other products/services incorporating Copernicus data or models? If so - please contribute to Know.Space’s independent evaluation of the UK’s participation in Copernicus on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and UK Space Agency.

Archive Incident - List of impacted data directories

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Dear users, We now have a list of data directories that have been affected by the data incident on 18th November 2025. You can see the top-level list below.

Archive Incident - Data Ingest Resuming

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Dear users,

We have another update regarding the CEDA Archive data incident that occurred on 18th November 2025. Please read the key points below:

CEDA Archive Incident update & FAQ

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Please note that we are processing incoming data where needed, but we are not presently depositing to the archive. Please hold off any large deposits for now and keep in touch with your CEDA point of contact to coordinate delivery.

Dear JASMIN and CEDA users, we have an update on the CEDA Archive incident that occured on Tuesday the 18th of November. Some common questions are answered below including how to request which data you’d like to be a priority for recovery.

CEDA ARCHIVE INCIDENT - 18th November 2025

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Dear JASMIN and CEDA users,

At approximately 10:02 on 18th November 2025, during the migration of data in the CEDA archive, a mistake was made which resulted in some data being deleted from the archive. The issue was identified at approximately 12:07, the archive was locked down preventing further loss by approximately 12:25, and the incident was fully diagnosed by 14:00.

Introduction to Scientific Computing Course 2025

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Dates

Course	Date	Location
Introduction to the bash shell (Unix/Linux)	Tuesday 4th November, 09:30 - 16:00	Online
Introduction to Python programming	Monday 17th November, 10:00 - Wednesday 19th November, 12:00	Leeds
Python programming – working with data & Introduction to Git/GitHub	Wednesday 19th November, 13:00 - Friday 21st November, 16:00	Leeds

Find out more information and apply here!

The Introduction to Scientific Computing (ISC) course covers the skills needed to start using the Linux Shell and Python in environmental science research. The course is designed for complete beginners as well as those with a little experience who wish to further their knowledge. Some prerequisite Python knowledge is necessary to study the “Python Programming – Working with Data” module. On the final day of the “Working with Data” module there will be two parallel sessions focussing, respectively, on the use of atmospheric science data and earth observation data. Students may join either session depending on their own learning needs and preferences.

JASMIN Updates October 2025

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Please note the following updates for your attention:

Reminder of scheduled maintenance day, Tuesday 4 November 2025
New scratch volumes, retirement of old
XFC service changes
Storage migration progress

Reminder of scheduled maintenance day, Tuesday 4 November

As previously announced via the status page, a regular maintenance day is scheduled for Tuesday 4th November. This potentially affects all JASMIN and CEDA services.

Register for the introduction to Scientific Computing Course now!

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Want to study scientific computing? From the Linux Shell to Python, our Introduction to Scientific Computing course will prepare you to use computing in environmental science research.

JASMIN User Conference 2025

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We have reluctantly taken the decision NOT to go ahead with the current plan for the JASMIN User Conference scheduled for 1-2 October 2025. Low registration numbers meant that an in-person event was not viable in its planned format.

JASMIN User Conference - important information

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

August Bank Holiday Updates - Monday 25th & Tuesday 26th August 2025

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:30:00 +0000

Dear all,

Services will be unsupported on Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th August due to the bank holiday on Monday 25th and the RAL site holiday on Tuesday 26th. Staff leave during the following week will also mean that responses to queries may take longer than usual.

JASMIN updates for July 2025

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Please note the following updates/reminders from the JASMIN team, for your attention:

Scheduled maintenance Tuesday 29 July - next week
New releases of JASPY and JASR
Migration of group workspaces - now underway
User Conference 1 & 2 October - save the dates!
Recent storage issues -how you can help

Scheduled maintenance Tuesday 29 July

REMINDER: Tuesday 29 July will be a scheduled maintenance day for JASMIN. Previous announcement.

New releases of Jaspy and Jasr

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

New releases of Jaspy and JasR are now available on JASMIN, on the sci machines and LOTUS. They can be loaded using module load jaspy/3.12/v20250704 or module load jasr/4.4/v20250704 as appropriate.

CEDA user account management site maintenance this morning, 26th of June, until midday (12pm)

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000

This morning, the 26th June, until midday (12pm), we will be rolling out some improvements to our CEDA account management services. During this time, there may be disruption to some website functions, including sign up for new CEDA accounts and account management operations such as password reset. Once completed, these updates should result in a better user experience while managing your CEDA account.

JASMIN Storage migration

Fri, 30 May 2025 14:30:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce that new storage hardware is now in place to replace older capacity on JASMIN, so a major storage migration is about to start.

JASMIN User Conference 2025 - save the dates

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0000

IMPORTANT - Please note change of dates

We will be hosting the next JASMIN conference at RAL on the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd October 2025.

Easter updates for CEDA and JASMIN users

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Please note the following updates for your attention:

CEDA and JASMIN support over the Easter period
Scheduled maintenance affecting SSD storage Tues 22 April
JASMIN regular scheduled maintenance Tues 29 April
Changes to scheduler policies for standard and highres partitions

Over the Easter period, CEDA and JASMIN services will be running at risk. Due to public holidays, our helpdesks will be closed at the end of working hours on Thursday 17th April until the morning of Tuesday 22nd April. Staff leave during the school holiday period also affects our availability at this time.

JASMIN Webinar - March 2025

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

On Wednesday 26th March, 10.00 - 12.00 GMT The CEDA//JASMIN team will be presenting a webinar to provide an update and describe new services available on JASMIN. Following the presentations there will be a Q&A session with the speakers and other members of the JASMIN team to give you an opportunity to ask questions.

Update to CEDA dataset application system on the 11th of February, from 10am onwards.

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:30:00 +0000

On Tuesday 11th February, starting from 10am and continuing all day, we will be rolling out a number of improvements to the way dataset access applications and authorisations are managed for CEDA accounts. During this time, some CEDA account features will be inaccessible. These include sign up for datasets, users’ dataset overview pages, and JASMIN account linking.

JASMIN: further updates about new cluster and notebooks service

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

In this update:

Further news and important dates regarding migration to the new cluster, LOTUS2
NEW: JASMIN notebooks service now supports GPUs

Please note the following updates as part of our current migration , which includes the retirement of the old CentOS7 cluster, LOTUS, with the new Rocky 9 cluster, LOTUS2:

Retirement of authenticated FTP service

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:30:00 +0000

After a review of our FTP service following a security incident at the end of 2024 we have decided that we will no longer support authenticated FTP access to restricted data in the CEDA Archive via ftp.ceda.ac.uk.

JASMIN updates: new cluster, scratch quotas, anaconda defaults removal

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0000

In this update:

New LOTUS2 cluster now available - please use it!
Scratch quotas now in force - please clean up!
Anaconda defaults removal - please check if this affects you!
Reboots and changes to physical sci servers

Details:

JASMIN updates: new cluster and maintenance day

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Important updates regarding LOTUS cluster and upcoming maintenance on JASMIN

In this update:

Support over the Christmas period and JASMIN updates

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Dear JASMIN and CEDA users,

This message includes information about JASMIN and CEDA support arrangements over the Christmas period and important updates on JASMIN services:

Celebrating 30 years of the Centre for Environmental data Analysis

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:30:00 +0000

On Monday 25th November 2024, we held a celebration event to mark the 30th anniversary of the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). The event was a great success, with over 70 people attending.

JASMIN Training Workshop

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On Thursday 28th November 09:00-15:30 BST We will be running a JASMIN training workshop, aimed at new and intermediate users.

Celebrating 30 years of CEDA - Help us imagine our future

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Register here to attend this event!

Join us for a special event marking 30 years of the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis! Over the past three decades, we’ve been dedicated to providing data and information services for environmental science through world-class data curation services, flexible technologies for data analysis and our contributions to national and international communities.

Upcoming JASMIN host retirements

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Please read - affects ALL users

Upcoming host retirements
Update on SOF storage issue

Upcoming host retirements

As part of our current migration to the Rocky 9 operating system , the following timetable of host retirements is planned.

BOOST Survey available now!

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:30:00 +0000

Dear Researchers,

We would like to invite you to complete a survey to help us to improve the interoperability of data and data analysis platforms across all research domains.

Introduction to Sceintific Computing Course - 2024

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Find out more and apply here!

Apply now for our Introduction to Scientific Computing Course!

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:30:00 +0000

We’re teaming up with the National Centre for Atmospheric Science to deliver a fantastic training opportunity that will give you the skills needed to start using the Linux Shell and Python in environmental science research. The course is designed for complete beginners as well as those with a little experience who wish to further their knowledge.

Join our JASMIN Training Workshop!

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:30:00 +0000

Dear Users,

We will be running a JASMIN training workshop, aimed at new and intermediate users, on Thursday 28th November 09:00-15:30 BST.

Changes to JASMIN cron, transfer and NX services

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Please note the following JASMIN announcements for your attention:

Changes to cron (and all transfers using xfer3)
Changes to NoMachine NX service (nx-login servers)

1. Changes to cron and transfer services

The old servers enabling task scheduling with cron, namely cron.jasmin.ac.uk (aka cron1.ceda.ac.uk) and xfer3.jasmin.ac.uk, are due to be retired, as replacements are already available as part of our migration to the Rocky Linux 9 operating system.

30 years of CEDA! Come celebrate with us and learn about what we do!

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:30:00 +0000

Join us for a special event celebrating 30 years of the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis!

To celebrate 30 years of service in the environmental science community, we’re having a celebration event on Monday the 25th of November 2024! At this event we will celebrate the past 30 years of innovation, growth, and collaboration at CEDA, showcase the depth and breadth of the work currently we do, and gather your feedback and ideas to shape the next 30 years.

Reminder of upcoming JASMIN changes and maintenance periods

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Dear users

Please note the following JASMIN announcements for your attention:

New services now available: please start using them!
JASMIN maintenance: electrical testing, 8-10 October (all systems at risk)
JASMIN Scheduled maintenance day, Tuesday 15 October (all systems at risk)

1. New services now available

General

JASMIN Help Documentation has now been updated to reflect the new Rocky 9 servers, so users are now asked to start using these (login, sci, xfer, hpxfer, etc) wherever possible. Please update your local configuration if you have stored the names of older servers. Older servers will start to be withdrawn over the next weeks, but will be announced in advance.

Applications are now open for 2 graduates to join CEDA!

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:30:00 +0000

We are currently accepting applications for 2 different graduate roles at CEDA:

Both roles are full-time open-ended contracts with a starting salary of £33,380 plus a £1,000 welcome bonus! You are required to submit a CV and cover letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. The closing date for both roles is Sunday 20th October 2024.

New services and reminder of software changes on JASMIN

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Dear users

New services now available

Details of the new Rocky 9 environment are now available here .

Important software changes on JASMIN Autumn 2024

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:30:00 +0000

Dear users

You will already be aware of the migration already underway from the CentOS7 to Rocky Linux 9 operating system. Further details of that new environment are now available below:

August bank holiday weekend arrangements - Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th August 2024

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Dear All,

Services will be unsupported on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th August due to the bank holiday on Monday 26th and RAL site holiday on Tuesday 27th. Staff leave during the remainder of the week will also mean that responses to queries may take longer than usual.

JDMA users - update your client

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Last week, we announced that the Elastic Tape (ET) and JDMA services had resumed after an operating system upgrade.

Some additional points to note:

CEDA Data Catalogue Update, Today from 3:30-4:30pm

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalogue Service will be updated from 3:30pm today, 7th August to aid harmonisation of services within CEDA and to improve access and licensing information on the catalogue records.

Data, docker and Django - Rory and Zach's Journey at CEDA

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

This year, CEDA had the pleasure of welcoming two industrial placement students, Rory Jenns and Zach Wharton, who joined us as Software Engineers for their Industrial Placement year. Hailing from the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University, respectively, Rory and Zach have spent the past 12 months diving into various projects, from software development to stakeholder engagement and system deployment. Let’s take a look at the fantastic work they accomplished during their time with us.

Catalogue service update complete.

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0000

CEDA’s data catalogue service update has been complete and should no longer be considered at risk. This roll our brings some minor cosmetic changes to users and a more resilient server overall to reduce future disruption and aid future service roll outs.

CEDA Data Catalogue downtime for maintenance.

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalogue will be undergoing maintenance from 3:00 pm until 5:00 pm today, Wednesday the 10th of July. During this time, the service may go offline, and some content may be unavailable.

Software and operating system changes - update 1

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:30:00 +0000

This is the first update about our progress migrating operating systems on JASMIN from CentOS7 to Rocky Linux 9 as announced previously here. Details of the migration in particular software packages can be found here .

Quota issue with SOF storage volumes

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:30:00 +0000

Dear users,

We are aware of an issue with volume quotas in the SOF storage system, affecting GWS volumes /gws/nopw/j04/* and CEDA Archive volumes. It appears that the system is permitting writes beyond the initial volume quota, then artificially increasing the quota reported by “df -H” up to a point where writes are no longer possible. The volume quota is initially set when a volume is created; this is recorded in the JASMIN Projects Portal and available to view in the GWS Dashboard at https://mon.jasmin.ac.uk (accounts portal credentials required). This is the true volume quota: it appears that the value reported by df -H has become unreliable in these cases. The suggested course of action for GWS managers is as follows:

Outreach

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

At CEDA we support environmental scientists coducting climate research. However, you don’t need a PhD to get involved!

We’ve designed some resources to help prompt conversations about climate change and highlight things everyone can do to reduce their carbon footprint.

GWS public web access server update

Tue, 28 May 2024 14:30:00 +0000

On Tuesday 4th June the GWS public web access server ( https://gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk ) will be moved to a new platform.

Fostering Early Career Excellence - Insights from the NCAS Early Career Symposium

Tue, 14 May 2024 14:30:00 +0000

The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) recently hosted the first-ever symposium for the early career atmospheric science community - Harmony in the Skies: Bridging Horizons in Atmospheric Science. Two CEDA graduates, Jesse Alexander and Nicola Farmer, helped organise the event, which was designed to bring staff early in their atmospheric science careers together.

Major investment triples capacity for analysing environmental data

Wed, 08 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Scientists will soon have access to triple the processing power for analysing environmental data. A £5.7 million investment for expanding the parallel compute cluster, called LOTUS , on JASMIN has been secured. The improved infrastructure allows much greater volume of parallel computing tasks - where multiple streams of data analysis tasks are undertaken at the same time - whilst reducing the time that users have to wait for their analysis to complete. Capacity will be tripled and will be available to users from Summer 2024.

Software and operating system updates coming soon to JASMIN

Fri, 03 May 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Moving to Rocky Linux 9

For the past few weeks and months we have been preparing for a change of operating system version on JASMIN. We are now sharing our plans and progress with you, so that you are aware of the remaining changes about to happen. We can then keep you up to date with further progress as the migration gets underway.

CEDA facilitating simplified access to Earth observation data - EO DataHub awards £3 million

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:30:00 +0000

CEDA, on behalf of the EO DataHub, is delighted to announce the award of significant further contracts aimed at unlocking the potential of Earth Observation (EO) data and completing the team for this landmark project. These contracts represent a significant milestone in the collaboration between commercial technology providers, application developers and data sources to deliver a first digital national EO infrastructure.

Updates to jaspy and jasr software environments

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:30:00 +0000

The following software environments jaspy and jasr will have new default versions on Tuesday 16th April (JASMIN patch day):

jaspy: Python, and other tools and libraries.
- based on Python 3.11, release notes at https://github.com/cedadev/ceda-jaspy-envs/releases/tag/jaspy3.11_r20240302
jasr: R tools and libraries.
- based on R 4.3, release notes at https://github.com/cedadev/ceda-jaspy-envs/releases/tag/jasr4.3_r20240320

The new version of Jaspy (jaspy/3.11/r20240302) and Jasr (jasr/4.3/r20240320) will become the default version that is obtained when using module load jaspy or module load jasr without an explicit version number.

Easter updates for CEDA and JASMIN users

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Please note the following updates for your attention:

CEDA and JASMIN support over the Easter period
JASMIN regular scheduled maintenance Tuesday 16th April 2024
Updated JASMIN dashboard now available
Information for JASMIN cloud tenancy managers

As usual over the Easter period, CEDA and JASMIN services will be running at risk. Our helpdesks will be closed out of working hours and staff leave during the school holidays also means that staff levels after the Easter weekend may be reduced.

JASMIN storage issues having wider effects

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:30:00 +0000

An internal performance issue with SOF storage is causing many machines to be unresponsive. The storage vendor is engaged with the system team’s investigation.

JASMIN Webinars available to watch now!

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:30:00 +0000

The recording from the latest JASMIN seminar series is available to watch on Yotube.

You can click here to watch the JASMIN talks given from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

All of the previous JASMIN Seminars have also been recorded and the slides saved. You can check out the other seminars on our event page here.

JASMIN issue with home directories and related storage

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000

An issue with the storage used for the following services is causing degraded performance and is under investigation with the vendor:

JASMIN storage issues resolved

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:30:00 +0000

Dear users,

The storage and performance issues from the past few days should now be resolved.

If you have any further issues, please contact the helpdesk.

JASMIN storage issues affecting JASMIN and CEDA services

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:45:00 +0000

The current issue with JASMIN SOF storage continues to affect many JASMIN and CEDA services.

Registration still open for NCAS’ Early Career Staff Symposium on 20th-21st March 2024!

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:15:00 +0000

The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) are hosting the first Harmony in the Skies: Bridging Horizons in Atmospheric Science symposium for the early career atmospheric science community!

JASMIN Cloud Survey Reminder

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:15:00 +0000

Dear Users,

I would like to remind you that the survey on the JASMIN Cloud is still open. We have decided to close the survey on 28th Feb. It would be incredibly helpful to get the community’s input on the future of the JASMIN Cloud, so please consider spending the time to fill in the survey - it should take less than 10 mins to complete.

JASMIN Group Workspace Managers Webinar

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

If you were unable to attend the webinar then you can watch a recording here on our youtube channel!

Of if you’d prefer you can view the slides here.

Thank you all for attending the Groupworkspaces Managers Webinar which explained more about the GWS Managers survey and its aims and new tools available to GWS managers to help with managing their workspace(s).

CEDA Data Catalogue update at 4pm today

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The CEDA data catalogue will be temporarily down at 4pm today to allow for an update to be rolled out to enhance our content harvesting by Google to aid wider discoverability of the data in the CEDA archive. We hope that this brief interruption will be kept as short as possible.

JASMIN User Seminar Series restarting 6th February - 1pm

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:00 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

We are hosting a webinar on Tuesday 6th of February at 1pm.

It is part of the JASMIN seminar user series aiming to encourage knowledge sharing and best practices between JASMIN users - whilst showcasing the types of science enabled by JASMIN. The format is an online presentation from two JASMIN users for 20 minutes, followed by a QA session.

JASMIN User Seminar Series

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Update January 2024: Thanks to all who previously contributed to this seminar series. We have restarted this series with the latest webinar having occuring on Tuesday 6th February at 1pm! Please contact us if you have an idea for a talk!

Talk	Speaker	Abstract	Date
Advancing Water Resources Research: Use of JASMIN in Hydrological Innovation & Computing for Climate: JASMIN’s Impact on Hydroclimatic Risk Science	Representatives from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology	–	February 2024
Data Management of Multi-Model Climate Simulations from PRIMAVERA at JASMIN	Jon Seddon, UK Met Office		January 2021
Oceans in the Cloud: working interactively with huge datasets using Pangeo	Andrew Meijers, British Antarctic Survey		January 2021
PRISE and Peatlands	Jane Lewis, Assimila		February 2021
Evaluating aerosols in the UK Earth System Model using observational ensembles	Adam Povey, National Centre for Earth Observation and University of Oxford		February 2021
Using the JASMIN Unmanaged Cloud for UKCA Training	Luke Abraham, National Centre for Atmospheric Science & Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge		March 2021
Unsupervised classification of mesoscale cloud organisation with neural networks	Leif Denby, University of Leeds		March 2021
COMET LiCSAR system for measuring tectonic and volcanic deformation by Sentinel-1 interferometry (part 1)	Milan Lazecký, Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET), University of Leeds		May 2021
COMET LiCSAR system for measuring tectonic and volcanic deformation by Sentinel-1 interferometry (part 2)	Yasser Maghsoudi Mehrani, Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET), University of Leeds		May 2021
Ground deformation detection using convolutional neural networks on InSAR data	Pui Anantrasirichai, University of Bristol		June 2021
DataLabs: Opening up environmental data science in the 21st Century	Mike Holloway, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology		June 2021
How climateprediction.net uses JASMIN: development, data storage, analysis, and collaboration	Sarah Sparrow, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University		July 2021
Transforming environmental research in the public sector with the use of JASMIN	Cathy Jin and Gwawr Jones, Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)		July 2021

JASMIN Cloud Survey and Announcements

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Dear Users,

We have a couple of cloud related announcements to share with the JASMIN community:

JASMIN Cloud Survey
Deprecation of CentOS 7 cloud images
Upcoming migration of the Cloud Portal to Azimuth

JASMIN Cloud Survey

We have recently been informed that our cloud platform VMWare Integrated OpenStack (VIO) is being discontinued. This presents us with an opportunity to make decisions on the direction which we want to take the JASMIN Cloud. The timescale for this is by mid 2025.

Reminder - GWS managers survey & webinar on 8th Feb

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 09:15:00 +0000

To: all JASMIN Group Workspace Managers

(please ignore if you are not involved in managing a GWS)

Reminder to GWS Managers: Please take a few minutes to complete our survey of Group Workspaces on JASMIN.

Latest JASMIN Updates

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:15:00 +0000

Dear Users,

We have some exciting JASMIN-related updates to share with you:

JASMIN storage issues - resolved

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:15:00 +0000

Issues now resolved, please report any further problems.

Further problems occurred over the weekend with JASMIN’s SOF storage, used for /gws/nopw/j04/* group workspaces and the CEDA Archive. With LOTUS batch cluster jobs failing for this reason, hosts have been removed from the cluster for the time being.

CEDA Annual Report Out Now!

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Our latest annual report is now available. The report presents key statistics about the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for the past year (2022 - 2023) as well as a series of snapshots of activity, expressed as short highlight reports.

Invitation to Tender (ITT) - EO Datahub Datastreams

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:30:00 +0000

NCEO and the EO DataHub team are pleased to announce the release of our latest invitation to tender, the EO Datahub Datastreams, which will be of most interest to commercial satellite data providers.

Intermittent CEDA data download issues

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Dear Users,

We are aware of intermittent issues affecting users using our data download web service (data.ceda.ac.uk) at present. This will occasionally present users with an ‘Internal Error’ page. This can usually be addressed by refreshing the page.

Issue with JASMIN Helpdesk emails

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:30:00 +0000

We are aware that some users are unable to email into the JASMIN support mail box at present ( support@jasmin.ac.uk).

We have raised the issue with our host institution to hopefully resolve this issue as quickly as possible. In the meanwhile users can get in touch either by using the help beacon located on JASMIN web pages (bottom right corner) or by emailing support@ceda.ac.uk.

Telespazio UK win EO DataHub Platform Software Development and Operations contract

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:30:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the winner of the EO DataHub Platform Software Development and Operations ITT– Telespazio UK, a subsidiary of Telespazio (a joint venture between Leonardo, 67%, and Thales, 33%). The EODH team are excited to start the development process of the new data platform with one of Europe’s leading players in space applications and services.

JASMIN updates

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:30:00 +0000

We wish a happy new year to all our users.

Please note the following updates for your attention:

LOTUS throughput/capacity is currently slightly reduced while network switch maintenance is carried out. By a process of gradual rack-draining, compute nodes in each rack will be in maint state when viewed in SLURM node information e.g. sinfo

JASMIN supports hackathon exploring ocean model data

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000

JASMIN supported over 40 hackathon attendees to help improve their data analysis skills with high-resolution ocean data. The hackathon made use of the JASMIN notebook service, group workspace storage and processing simulations on the LOTUS batch processing cluster.

The EERIE project is developing improved Earth system models, harnessing Europe’s pre-exascale computers and considering European ocean mesoscale eddies in preparation for the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. The project’s first General Assembly, held in Germany, saw 43 project members from 15 different project partners attend an extra two days for the project’s first hackathon. The aim of the hackathon was for participants to get to know each other while looking at some of the initial EERIE high-resolution eddy-resolving simulations and to gain experience using some relevant software tools.

GWS managers - please complete our survey

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 11:15:00 +0000

GWS Managers: Please take a few minutes to complete our survey of Group Workspaces on JASMIN.

We are initiating this survey to examine the utilization of JASMIN group workspaces (GWSs). Storage is an expensive resource at the scale used within JASMIN and consumes significant energy. Your involvement is pivotal in helping us to understand how it is currently being used and how that could be improved. As a GWS manager you may be managing more than one GWS. In such a case please complete a separate survey for each GWS that you are responsible for. Conversely, if several of you are responsible for one workspace, please coordinate with each other to submit one response per workspace.

Release of EO DataHub Applications and Integrations ITT

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 11:15:00 +0000

Deadline now extended to 29 January 2024, 14:00

NCEO and the EO DataHub team are pleased to announce the release of our latest invitation to tender, the EO DataHub Applications and Integrations ITT. The tender is now open for submissions and will close on the 29 January 2024, 14:00:

CEDA supporting landmark AI-for-public-good scheme

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000

The Manchester Prize is a landmark AI-for-public-good scheme funded by the Government through which £1m in prizes will be awarded annually for the next ten years.

JASMIN Support over the Christmas period and updates

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

This message includes information about the JASMIN support over the Christmas period and important updates on JASMIN services:

JASMIN Accounts Portal Downtime 14/12/23

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Dear Users,

The JASMIN accounts portal will be unavailable for a short period this Thursday afternoon (14/12/23), and should be considered ‘at risk’ from 14:00 until the end of the day.

Changes to Globus on JASMIN

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000

As announced recently, the current Globus endpoint on JASMIN is changing, and the old one will cease operating soon. The final day of operation for that endpoint is now confirmed as 18 December 2023.

Communicating Climate Uncertainty Workshop

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On November 30, CEDA staff and the Climateurope2 project are organizing a workshop on Uncertainty to discuss how users of climate information deal with uncertainties and how providers of climate services should communicate about uncertainties in ways that enable users to extract the information they need. This workshop is intended for anyone involved in the practice of climate services and dealing with communicating uncertainties, or simply interested in this topic.

Join our Communicating Climate Uncertainty Workshop on November 30th!

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

You are invited to a workshop on Uncertainty, delving into the crucial dialogue surrounding how users and providers of climate information navigate uncertainties.

Updates to software environments Jaspy and Jasr

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

The following software environments Jaspy and Jasr will have new default versions at 9:00 am on Wednesday 13th December 2023:

CEDA / JASMIN latest improvements

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

During the recent CEDA/JASMIN downtime we took the opportunity to make a range of changes, mostly behind the scenes, to make things more resilient and roll out a few enhancements. We’ve rounded these up here to share with our communities, to show how we made the best of the inevitable disruption to make improvements which benefit our user communities and ourselves in our day-to-day operations.

Introduction to Scientific Computing Course

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

You will be tutored by experts from the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis who solve scientific data challenges on a daily basis.

JASMIN power maintenance complete

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

All systems are now reported to be operating normally, so JASMIN and CEDA services can be considered back to normal and the recent power maintenance work considered complete.Any problems should now be reported to the relevant helpdesk (support@ceda.ac.uk for CEDA Archive services, support@jasmin.ac.uk for JASMIN services).

JASMIN Conference 2023

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We will be hosting the next JASMIN conference at our host institute on the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. It will occur over two half days on the afternoon of Wednesday 1 and the morning of Thursday 2 November 2023.

JASMIN Update - partial return to service

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:30:00 +0000

Most subsystems are now back up with the exception of SLURM (the scheduler used for LOTUS and ORCHID clusters) and Object Storage. Login, (most) sci and xfer servers are accessible again, but any services reliant on LOTUS, Object Storage (e.g some web-based services) are not yet available. Please await further updates for full availability.

Updates on JASMIN shutdown

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:30:00 +0000

The electrical maintenance work over the weekend was completed successfully but JASMIN services are not yet available to users.

The infrastructure team is now working through the carefully-planned sequence of restarting and checking subsystems before making the services that depend on them, available again.

REMINDER JASMIN power maintenance Autumn 2023

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Dear Users,

As per our previous announcements, essential work will be taking place this Autumn in the data centre (machine room) where JASMIN is hosted to carry out safety checks and 5-yearly recertification of power supply equipment.

Tape services currently unavailable

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:17:30 +0000

Dear Users

Due to an issue with the tape library, the tape services including NLA, JDMA and ET are currency unavailable. We are working to fix this issue as soon as possible.

JASMIN2023 user conference call for registration (REMINDER)

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:09:55 +0000

Dear JASMIN user,

As previously announced, we will be hosting the next JASMIN conference at our host institution, RAL, on the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. It will occur over two half days on the afternoon of Wednesday 1st November and the morning of Thursday 2nd of November 2023.

JASMIN Network issues - update

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:41:52 +0000

Dear users

The network issue earlier this week has had a temporary solution applied but the underlying issue remains and as a result the system still remains at risk. Further work between now and the scheduled down at the end of October will look at the best available options to resolve it.

JASMIN Network Issues

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:34:44 +0000

Part of the JASMIN network suffered a failure yesterday evening and the team is currently working to resolve this. As a result, many JASMIN and CEDA services are currently unavailable.

Minor power issue affected some LOTUS jobs.

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 08:26:36 +0000

Dear Users

A minor power issue yesterday evening resulted in a number of LOTUS hosts rebooting. This will have affected any jobs running on those hosts. The hosts have now been returned to the queues.

Now Hiring! Senior Technical Manager

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:42:10 +0000

Come join our team! We’re looking for a Technical Manager to join our Senior Management Team.

You will lead the technical development of software and services we provide for the environmental science community. You will need skills in both software and managing people as you’ll head up a team of around ten developers.

CEDA web download service issues resolved.

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:26:53 +0000

The temporary issue affecting the web download service for the archive ( data.ceda.ac.uk ) has been resolved and normal service has resumed.Apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused.CEDA Team

CEDA web download service issues.

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:42:34 +0000

CEDA are aware of issues with the web download service at present resulting in “Internal Server Error” messages when browsing the archive. We are investigating this issue at the moment to find a resolution.In the meanwhile users can still access data via dap.ceda.ac.uk or ftp.ceda.ac.uk Apologies for the inconvenience caused.CEDA Team

UKRI Net-Zero Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Scoping Project

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Initial Project Aim

Our initial aim was to provide a clear roadmap to deliver carbon neutral digital research infrastructure (DRI) by 2040 or earlier. This covers the entire DRI estate for UK Research and Innovation. the core project team at CEDA was to lead an initial, 18-month UKRI-wide study to survey the digital carbon landscape, run a set of demonstrators and develop a roadmap to ensure that our data infrastructure can achieve net zero. Taking a systems-based approach, CEDA would work to develop adaptation strategies for the way data is conserved, analysed and managed.

CEDA Vacancies for Summer 2024 software developer industrial placement and graduate JASMIN Service Support role available

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:28:39 +0000

Interested in joining our amazing team at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis and being involved in our work supporting world leading environmental research? Graduating in Summer 2024 or looking for an Industrial Placement as part of your degree?
If so, you’re in luck because we have multiple positions now open for applications!

REMINDER Advance notice of JASMIN power maintenance Autumn 2023

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:35:53 +0000

Dear Users,

As per our previous announcement in July, essential work will be taking place this Autumn in the data centre (machine room) where JASMIN is hosted to carry out safety checks and 5-yearly recertification of power supply equipment.

Friday 8th September 1000-1030 CEDA catalogue service update

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:46:30 +0000

The CEDA Catalogue Service will be temporarily off line Friday 8th September 10:00-10:30 to allow for a service update to be rolled out. This will provide some additional layout improvements to the new search tool and also add in external dataset citation listings for DOIed datasets.

History

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) has evolved over time as its remit has changed and developed in response to the needs of its user community. The following gives a brief history of this evolution and a timeline of significant changes.

Mission

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We aim to support environmental science, further environmental data archival practices, and develop and deploy new technologies to enhance access to data. Additionally we provide services to aid large scale data analysis.

Update on JASMIN issues 31 Aug 2023

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:54:40 +0000

Dear users,

We thank you for your patience while the system team has been working to resolve the network and storage issues of the past few days. The current situation is as follows:

Update on JASMIN issues 30 Aug 2023

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:34:54 +0000

Further investigation of the storage and networking issues affecting CEDA and JASMIN services means that some additional interventions are required:

Issue with CEDA and JASMIN services - update

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:58:56 +0000

A connectivity issue has affected many CEDA and JASMIN services over the past 24 hrs. While affected services should now be available to users again, the issue has so far been attributed to a faulty network switch. A temporary fix is in place but until the faulty switch can be removed/replaced (timescale TBC), services should be considered “at risk”.
With apologies for any inconvenience.
JASMIN Team

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Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Bank holiday site closure - Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th August

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 09:37:28 +0000

Dear All,

Services will be unsupported on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th August due to the bank holiday site closure. Minimal staff will be working for the remainder of that week so responses to queries may take longer than usual.

Sustainable computing the UK’s journey to net zero digital research infrastructure by 2040

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 08:29:06 +0000

Leading UK data and computing experts have developed a toolkit and roadmap to get the UK’s digital research infrastructure sector to net zero.

Two-week offline period for all JASMIN and CEDA services in October

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:32:01 +0000

We have recently been informed that due to essential maintenance work on the building power supply, we will need to take JASMIN (and therefore all services reliant on the infrastructure) completely offline for a period of up to two weeks from 23rd October 2023.

Technical Blog Post - Experiments with Kerchunk

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 09:54:58 +0000

Check out our technical blog post all about Kerchunk!

From Rubik's Cubes to Data Cubes Adrian Dębski’s Industrial Placement year with CEDA

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:18:48 +0000

Adrian Dębski, holder of 3 European and 13 Polish ‘speed-cubing’ records, joined the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis ( CEDA ) for his Year in Industry as part of his BSc Computer Science degree at Aberystwyth University in August 2022. During his time with us he amazed us with not only his prowess of solving Rubik’s cubes in less than 10s (blindfolded!) but also in how well he became a team member and helped enhance CEDA’s service deliveries. As Adrian left us to head over to Seoul for his next speed cubing world championships we caught up with him to reflect on his time with us.

Advance notice of JASMIN power maintenance Autumn 2023

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:49:36 +0000

Dear Users,

Please be advised that at some point between October and the end of the year, work will take place in the data centre (machine room) where JASMIN is hosted to carry out safety checks and 5-yearly recertification of power supply equipment.

RESOLVED - Issue with JASMIN GridFTP and Globus transfers

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:00:14 +0000

Dear Users

The earlier issue with GridFTP and Globus transfers to/from JASMIN has now been resolved.
Apologies for any inconvenience.

FAAM Airborne Laboratory data use survey

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:10:51 +0000

The FAAM Airborne Laboratory collects atmospheric data all over the world. From air quality, cloud formation, and weather processes, to greenhouse gas emissions from human activities and atmospheric composition, the FAAM Airborne Laboratory’s specially adapted research aircraft enables researchers to understand our changing environment. Over 1300 flights have collected a wealth of data from across the world.

Final Reminder - JASMIN maintenance day Tomorrow, Tuesday 11th July 2023

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:19:42 +0000

Dear JASMIN user,

This is the final reminder to please note the upcoming maintenance day Tomorrow, Tuesday 11th July. The following system work/enhancements are also planned for that date in order to minimise disruption:

Interruption to tape services for security maintenance

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:59:09 +0000

Further to our earlier announcement, tape services will need a separate interruption to apply security updates. Tape services will not be available between midday on Monday 3rd July until the work has completed, hopefully later on Tuesday 4th July.
This affects Elastic Tape, JDMA and Near-Line Archive services.

Vacancy CEDA Technical Manager

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:15:12 +0000

We’re looking for a Technical Manager to join our Senior Management Team.

You will lead the technical development of software and services we provide for the environmental science community.

JASMIN login server login2 currently unavailable - Update This is now resolved

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:36:20 +0000

The issue with server login2 is now resolved and it should be available again.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
JASMIN Team

JASMIN Update on tape services - restored to service, 19th June 2023.

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:00:20 +0000

We are happy to announce that all tape services are now available.

The NLA, ET and JDMA services are again available and ready for users to submit requests after a period of extensive testing last week.

CEDA Data Catalogue Unavailable 10am, Tues 13th June

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:53:32 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalogue service will be temporarily unavailable tomorrow 10am, Tues 13th June to allow an updated version to be deployed.

JASMIN updates Scheduled maintenance 11 July and other items

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:19:54 +0000

Dear users

Please note the following items for your attention:

JASMIN Regular scheduled maintenance day: 11 July 2023
New NX server available
Reboot of gws-access service Tuesday 13th June 08:30 & future changes to service.

Details:

Final Reminder NVIDIA HPC, AI and Data Science – making the most of your GPUs

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 08:33:27 +0000

Dear JASMIN user,

We will be hosting a webinar on Thursday 8th of June 2023 at 2pm about “NVIDIA HPC, AI and Data Science – making the most of your GPUs: Best Practices, Tools and Resources for Researchers”. This webinar will look at the best practices, tools and frameworks available which can help researchers quickly utilise the full abilities of the GPU hardware, even if they are GPU novices.

Update JASMIN GWS IO Errors

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 14:35:25 +0000

Dear JASMIN Users

We now believe that the issues affecting the storage for the GWS and CEDA Archive are resolved. Please let us know if you continue to have issues with IO Errors on the storage

JASMIN GWS IO Errors

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:46:15 +0000

Dear JASMIN Users

We are currently experiencing errors affecting the GWSs with the paths /gws/nopw/j04/ which are showing as IOErrors. We are in discussions with the vendor to get this fixed as soon as possible.

JASMIN Update on tape services and scheduled maintenance, June 2023.

Tue, 30 May 2023 13:08:56 +0000

Dear User,

As many users of the tape systems will know, we have recently experienced problems with the NLA, ET and JDMA services.

PFS storage affecting LOTUS

Thu, 11 May 2023 12:43:09 +0000

Dear Jasmin user,

The issue with PFS storage reported earlier is also affecting the batch cluster LOTUS. Batch jobs are timing out and many compute nodes going into a drain state. Please note that we are going to have to stop new LOTUS jobs running temporarily.

Update on JASMIN tape services and related issues

Thu, 11 May 2023 11:29:53 +0000

Please note the further updates below:

Although initially thought to be only a problem with ET/JDMA service itself, the current issues with slow throughput are now thought to be mainly due to a problem with the PFS storage from where the particular tape jobs are being ingested.
The issue with PFS storage is also affecting other volumes in that system, including XFC volumes /work/xfc/*, and /work/scratch-pw* and /gws/pw/j07/*.
These issues are being actively pursued with the storage vendor and the urgency has been escalated.
Further interventions to restore stability to the tape services are possible in due course.

We apologise for the disruption caused by these issues, but are working to understand and resolve them as soon as possible.JASMIN Team.

The Near-line archive is now available. Elastic Tape and JDMA are currently unavailable.

Wed, 10 May 2023 08:31:52 +0000

Dear Users

Below follows an update to the tape services, NLA and JDMA/ET.

The NLA is now available again for users.
JDMA and ET remain unavailable due to ongoing problems. We are working hard to remedy this and hope to have a resolution soon.

We apologise for the inconvenience and impact on user’s workflows that are dependent on the tape services.

Industrial action - Wednesday 10 May

Tue, 09 May 2023 09:49:01 +0000

We wish to make you aware that industrial action is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 10 May 2023. We expect services to continue to operate, but running “at risk” at reduced (in some cases substantially) staffing levels. Our ability to respond to faults and requests will be reduced, leading to delays to our response in some circumstances.

JASMIN updates nx-login machines reboot and tape services status

Tue, 02 May 2023 09:34:15 +0000

Please note the following JASMIN service updates for your attention:

nx-login service update

The servers nx-login[123].jasmin.ac.uk will be rebooted tomorrow Wed 3 May between 08:30 - 09:30 to apply new licenses. This will result in the interruption to desktop sessions, so please log out of your NX desktop session by the end of today to avoid disruption.

Near-line archive (NLA) unavailable from 27th April.

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:26:09 +0000

Dear Users

Due to problems arising from the JASMIN maintenance day on Tuesday 25th April, the Near-line Archive (NLA) remains unavailable. We are working hard to remedy this, but it is likely that the NLA will not be available until after the bank holiday weekend, 2nd May at the earliest.

JASMIN Accounts Portal - Email Delivery Problems

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 09:06:24 +0000

Dear JASMIN Users

The JASMIN accounts portal is currently having trouble delivering emails to users.

This means that login verification codes from the accounts portal are not being sent at the moment.

Vacancy Principal Project/Programme Manager

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:00:18 +0000

We have an exciting new vacancy for a Principal Project/Programme Manager within our CEDA team.

You will be responsible for effective leadership, management, delivery, and co-ordination of programmes and projects across CEDA. This includes oversight for major grants from our funders; management of complex software development projects involving multiple partners and stakeholders; project management for ongoing investment of hardware, software and services for the JASMIN computer facility and a portfolio of projects providing data science support, training and the development of new and innovative software and services for CEDA.

New JASMIN Dask Gateway Service

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:24:40 +0000

We have a new service which allows users to use the Dask parallel computing library more easily from the JASMIN notebook service, which is now available for users to beta test.

Tape services unavailable 28th to 30th March 2023 - Postponed

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 08:22:30 +0000

Please note - regarding the following information:

This maintenance work on tape systems has now been postponed. A new date will be announced in due course.

Change in email delivery from the JASMIN Accounts Portal

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:21:38 +0000

Dear Users,

The email address from which the JASMIN accounts portal sends notifications to users, such as service expiry reminders, password resets and one-time passwords is changing from no-reply@accounts.jasmin.ac.uk to noreply@jasmin.ac.uk*.*

CEDA Data Catalogue Update 3pm today.

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:14:53 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalogue service ( https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk ) will be briefly off line at 3pm today to allow a number of updates to the service to be rolled out. This may lead to a period of time in which the catalogue search needs to be rebuilt to help refine the search service. The main user improvement will be with the search interface with increased search options and better search results and the ability to search within related records. Additionally, the Dataset records will, in most cases, be additionally augmented with project funder and PI information where available on attached Project records to provide a richer set of metadata for each dataset. Dataset total number of files and volume details will also be displayed on dataset records for all CEDA hosted content.

Reminder JASMIN mini-patch day Tomorrow - Tuesday 21st March 2023

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:17:22 +0000

Dear JASMIN user,

Please note the upcoming “mini” maintenance day on Tuesday 21st March. The following system work/enhancements are also planned for that date in order to minimise disruption:

JASMIN Storage Issues affecting SOF volumes

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:34:28 +0000

Users may currently be experiencing impaired performance when using SOF storage volumes (/gws/nopw/j04/* and CEDA Archive volumes). The issue is under investigation with the storage vendor.

JASMIN login services are available - issue resolved

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:59:35 +0000

Dear JASMIN user,

We believe that the recent issue that affected the PURE storage system that hosts the home users directories and some small-files group workspaces is now resolved and JASMIN login services are operational.

JASMIN login services currently unavailable - issue under investigation

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:16:16 +0000

Dear users,

JASMIN login services are currently unavailable because of issues with the home users directories. The issue is currently being investigated with the storage vendor.

Issues with PFS storage affecting some JASMIN & CEDA services.

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 11:22:49 +0000

An issue with PFS storage volumes is currently being investigated with the vendor but may be affecting access to the following storage volumes used by CEDA and JASMIN services:

JASMIN and CEDA services issues

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 09:19:01 +0000

Dear Users

Some JASMIN and CEDA services have been affected by power supply instabilities overnight which have resulted in some systems being rebooted. Services are recovering.

Vacancies several opportunities to join our team

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 11:02:32 +0000

We have several new exciting job opportunities to join our team. Further details at the link below.

Head of Earth Observation - deadline: 26 February 2023
Principal Programme/Project Manager - deadline: 26 February 2023
Technical Manager - deadline: 26 February 2023
Assistant Environmental Data Scientist - deadline: 5 March 2023
Scientific Programming and Outreach Graduate - deadline: 5 March 2023

Please contact the helpdesk if you need any additional information.

UPDATE 2 - JASMIN maintenance work still in progress

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:55:25 +0000

Dear users,

Maintenance work is still in progress today.

Parallel File System (PFS) Storage
A second phase of the upgrade is now likely to be postponed to another date. PFS storage is running, but at reduced performance. This affects some CEDA Archive services, group workspaces with /gws/pw/j07 paths, /work/xfc and /work/scratch-pw[2,3] volumes
The old /work/scratch-pw volume should no longer be used and will be physically removed shortly.
LOTUS batch processing cluster: a reservation will remain in place until later today. An announcement will be made when this is lifted.

In summary: while many systems are back in operation, there is more work to be completed so in order to avoid disruption to their work, users are advised to avoid resuming work on the system until further notice.

Update on JASMIN maintenance Tues 31 Jan 2023 - window extended

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:55:46 +0000

Scheduled maintenance work today has progressed well but some tasks will require extending the maintenance window into tomorrow Wednesday 1st February 2023.

Webinar - JASMIN's new GPU cluster, ORCHID

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The webinar was open to all JASMIN users, but was of particular interest to those embarking on research involving machine learning techniques, or who have been seeking GPU resources for use in their work. Further details, including links to slides and recordings can be found below.

JASMIN GPU webinar, 31st Jan 2023 Agenda and joining details

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:38:31 +0000

Dear JASMIN user,

We will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday 31st January 2023 at 10:30 about JASMIN’s new GPU cluster, ORCHID. The event will provide information about ORCHID itself, as well as hearing from recent test users about their experiences with it. Users of other research GPU clusters will also talk about their use cases and experience.

Update on tape services and storage issues

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:13:28 +0000

Interruption to tape services (including week of 16-20 Jan)
The tape library is now functioning but with only one robot so performance is reduced. Please avoid using for now, as any jobs remaining over the weekend will likely need to be stopped ahead of scheduled maintenance due start on Monday 16th Jan for four days. Tape services should therefore be considered at reduced performance for now, but fully unavailable for most/all of next week. This affects Elastic Tape, JDMA, and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services.

Upcoming events net zero digital research infrastructure

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:57:21 +0000

We have been busy preparing a schedule of events for the final 6 months of the UKRI Net Zero Digital Research Infrastructure Scoping Project - with the aims of sharing findings, gathering further evidence and gaining greater consensus. Details of our first few events are below. Please register to attend and/or share widely with your networks! Further events will be announced in due course.

Vacancy Storage Ops and User Support

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:08:49 +0000

We have a new exciting job opportunity to join our team. Further details at the link below.

Storage Ops and User Support (deadline - 29 January 2023)

Please contact the helpdesk if you need any additional information.

Interruption to tape services, update on storage issues

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:02:32 +0000

Interruption to tape services:
The tape library is currently out of service due to essential maintenance work. It had been hoped that the work involved could be carried out without an interruption to users but unfortunately this is now not the case: apologies for the short notice. This affects Elastic Tape, JDMA, and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services.

JASMIN GPU webinar, 31st Jan 2023

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:04:40 +0000

Dear JASMIN user,

We will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday 31st January 2023 at 10:30 about JASMIN’s new GPU cluster, ORCHID. The event will provide information about ORCHID itself, as well as hearing from recent test users about their experiences with it. Users of other research GPU clusters will also talk about their use cases and experience.

UPDATE - some group workspaces and virtual machines unavailable

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:54:27 +0000

Dear users,

Further to our earlier message, issues with the affected storage volumes are currently being resolved. Some are now available again while the root cause is still being investigated.

Some Group Workspace volumes currently unavailable - issue under investigation

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:15:25 +0000

Dear users,

Several Group Workspace volumes are currently not accessible because of a metadata server issue. The issue is currently being investigated with the storage vendor.

Disruption to CEDA archive services

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:10:04 +0000

We are currently experiences some disruption to CEDA archive services while we upgrade our storage systems.

We anticipated some short outages of our data ingestion services, but it looks likely that these may run over until tomorrow.

CEDA and JASMIN support over the Christmas period

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:12:03 +0000

As we approach the Christmas period, please be aware of the limited support arrangements in place which will result in CEDA and JASMIN services running “at-risk”.

CEDA Catalogue service and data.ceda download service presently unavailable.

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 14:44:41 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalouge and web download services are presently unavailable due to issues affecting the catalogue service.

CEDA staff are investigating the cause and hope to have this resolved as soon as possible to restore normal sevice.

Climate data use outside the academic research community survey

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:13:50 +0000

CEDA would like to learn how climate data is being used outside the academic research community (for example, industry partners, risk management companies, teachers and educators, local authorities, members of the public, policy makers and advisers, planners). This is to provide feedback to our funders and help us to design future services - without continued funding CEDA services would cease to exist.

CEDA Document Repository Transfer To Zenodo Complete

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:01:17 +0000

The transfer of items from the CEDA Document Repository to our CEDA Document Repository Community on Zenodo has now been successfully completed.

CEDA Document Repository Move to Zenodo Thursday 24th November

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:14:34 +0000

On Thursday 22nd November we’ll be transferring items from the CEDA Document Repository service to Zenodo , a service operated by CERN, where CEDA will maintain a ‘CEDA Document Repository Community’ to aid access to dataset related documentation.

Reminder JASMIN planned mini maintenance and other updates - Tuesday 22nd November

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:02:29 +0000

Dear users,

Please note the upcoming “mini” maintenance day on Tuesday 22nd November. The following system work/enhancements are also planned for that date in order to minimise disruption:

JASMIN planned mini maintenance and other updates - Tuesday 22nd November

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:59:16 +0000

Dear users,

Please note the upcoming “mini” maintenance day on Tuesday 22nd November. The following system work/enhancements are also planned for that date in order to minimise disruption:

JASMIN used to show Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:38:05 +0000

Satellite images confirm that the Tonga eruption in January 2022 produced the highest ever recorded volcanic plume, at 57 km high. The open-source data used to confirm this finding was processed on JASMIN - the UK’s data analysis facility for environmental science.

Reminder - JASMIN planned maintenance and updates - Tuesday 18th October

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 08:56:02 +0000

Dear users,

Please note the upcoming maintenance work affecting JASMIN on Tuesday 18th October. The following system work/enhancements are also planned for that date in order to minimise disruption:

Update Tape services maintenance 8-9 August 2022

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:05:00 +0000

Dear Users

Elastic Tape, JDMA Near-Line Archive (NLA) services are now re-enabled and should be running as usual.

With apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Reminder Tape services maintenance 8-9 August 2022

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 10:21:56 +0000

Dear Users

Tape services will be out of action from midday on Monday 8th August 2022 until the afternoon of Tuesday 9th August 2022, to enable updates to be applied to firmware and software components of the tape library and servers involved in the delivery of tape services.

Affected services after power outage

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 08:21:43 +0000

Dear users

There was a brief power outage affecting some CEDA and JASMIN services earlier today. Please bear with us while we restore the affected services.

JASMIN Reminder “possible” service interruption from 930am until 2pm on Monday 1st August 2022

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 08:28:03 +0000

Dear users,

Please note upcoming maintenance work with “possible” service interruption affecting JASMIN from 9:30am until 2pm on Monday 1st August. The LOTUS batch processing cluster will be unavailable for the duration of the work on the day, to avoid running jobs being adversely affected. A reservation will start at 06:00 am on the day, but any job submitted before that with a running time that goes over the reservation period will not start until after the reservation has finished. We will release the reservation early if the work is completed early.

Advanced warning CEDA data catalogue offline 10am 22nd July 2022

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:26:57 +0000

The CEDA data catalogue service ( https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk ) will be temporarily affected tomorrow at 10am for a planned roll-out of new features and bug fixes. The roll-out should only last a few minutes after which normal service will resume.

UK record temperature data access

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:24:12 +0000

As the UK heatwave peaks across the country, we have been putting together some handy tips for how to access temperature and related data for the UK.

JASMIN warning on possible disruptions on 18th-19th July

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:18:06 +0000

Dear users,

Please note that there is potential for disruption to JASMIN services from Monday 18th July at 10am till Tuesday 19th July evening as a result of extreme heat forecast for RAL, where JASMIN is hosted. It may become necessary to take action to reduce load on JASMIN if cooling equipment is unable to keep up with demand

JASMIN Reminder of maintenance work on weekend of 18/19 June and extended at risk period 20-24 June

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:39:49 +0000

Dear users,

Please note upcoming maintenance work and extended “at risk” period affecting JASMIN & CEDA next week:

Advance notice of STFC network intervention, 18-19 June 2022

Over the weekend of 18/19 June, there will be NO ACCESS to the RAL network, in which JASMIN is hosted, so there will be no access to JASMIN and CEDA services. Work is expected to continue on Monday 20th & Tuesday 21st June affecting some or all parts of the network. This work is being carried out by STFC’s network team. We will provide further details as these become available.

Reminder of maintenance work on weekend of 18/19 June and extended at risk period 20-24 June

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:32:35 +0000

Please note upcoming maintenance work and extended “at risk” period affecting JASMIN & CEDA next week:

Advance notice of STFC network intervention, 18-19 June 2022

Over the weekend of 18/19 June, there will be NO ACCESS to the RAL network, in which JASMIN is hosted, so there will be no access to JASMIN and CEDA services. Work is expected to continue on Monday 20th & Tuesday 21st June affecting some or all parts of the network. This work is being carried out by STFC’s network team. We will provide further details as these become available.

At risk period 16th June, Today

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:46:31 +0000

Dear users,

Please note upcoming “at risk” period and maintenance work affecting JASMIN & CEDA this week and next week:

JASMIN Update and reminder of maintenance work on weekend of 18/19 June

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:20:49 +0000

Dear users,

Please note upcoming maintenance work affecting JASMIN & CEDA during next week:

Quarterly maintenance day & storage update: 14th June completed!

Work to update storage systems is now completed. Important updates were applied to systems within the JASMIN infrastructure in order to keep them up to date and secure. Users are now able to access JASMIN.

Upcoming at risk periods for CEDA/JASMIN - 7th, 14th, 18-19th June

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:36:12 +0000

Please note upcoming “at risk” periods and maintenance work affecting JASMIN & CEDA during the next couple of weeks:

Tuesday 7th June “at risk” period between 08:00 am and 10:00 am:

Further preparatory work ahead of the network intervention on the weekend of 18/19th June, is required and is expected to cause minimal disruption.

Urgent network outage at 1700 today 26 May

Thu, 26 May 2022 15:45:49 +0000

With apologies for the very short notice: this will affect access to JASMIN and CEDA services:

Due to an ongoing technical issue with the main RAL firewalls, there is going to be a period of network disruption from 17:00 today. We apologise for the very short notice but are passing on the information to you now that we have been made aware of the potential impact.

Application software for JASMIN / LOTUS is now accessible and sci3 will be rebooted tomorrow at 7am

Wed, 25 May 2022 15:07:54 +0000

Dear Users,

We are pleased to announce that the problem with the host which serves application software in JASMIN/LOTUS was resolved. Applications and libraries available via the module environment /apps/modulefiles or /apps/contrib are now accessible

Application software for JASMIN / LOTUS currently not accessible

Wed, 25 May 2022 08:40:20 +0000

There is currently a problem with the host which serves application software in JASMIN/LOTUS. It is currently not accessible, which means that it is not possible to load any modules under /apps/modulefiles or /apps/contrib. The issue is currently being investigated.

JASMIN update on SLURM Scheduler upgrade

Fri, 20 May 2022 10:01:18 +0000

Dear users,

Further to our recent notice about forthcoming maintenance periods and upgrade to the SLURM scheduler, please note the following update:

JASMIN update on forthcoming maintenance periods May-June 2022

Mon, 16 May 2022 08:28:02 +0000

Dear users,

Please note the current/upcoming maintenance work affecting JASMIN:

This week: SLURM scheduler upgrade in progress
LOTUS batch processing cluster unavailable for most of this week

JASMIN update on SLURM Scheduler upgrade - starts Friday 13th May 2022

Fri, 13 May 2022 08:30:29 +0000

Dear users,

Further to our recent notice about forthcoming maintenance periods and upgrade to the SLURM scheduler, please note the following update:

JASMIN SLURM scheduler upgrade w/c 16 May 2022

Tue, 10 May 2022 07:30:01 +0000

Dear users,

Further to our recent announcement about maintenance periods in May/June 2022, please note the following additional item:

SLURM Scheduler upgrade, week commencing 16 May 2022

JASMIN update on forthcoming maintenance periods May-June 2022

Thu, 05 May 2022 08:57:53 +0000

Dear users,

Please note the following announcements for your information:

Reboot of nx-login servers 09:30 Thurs 5th May

NX login servers (nx-login[123].jasmin.ac.uk) will be rebooted at 09:30 tomorrow Thursday 5th May to apply new licences. This will cause a break in connected sessions so please ensure you are logged out of these servers before this time to avoid any problems.

External Projects and Services

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

CEDA also provide support for numerous other organisations and external projects. We run the UK Solar System Data Centre (UKSSDC) co-funded by STFC and NERC, curates and provides access to archives of data from the upper atmosphere, ionosphere and Earth’s solar environment.

Big Data Analysis & Access

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

CEDA Archive

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The CEDA Archive is the national data centre for atmospheric and earth observation and forms part of NERC’s Environmental Data Service - a network of data centres covering all aspects of environmental science. Our team coordinate data management on behalf of NERC for the UK atmospheric science and earth observation communities.

Collaboration

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

JASMIN

JASMIN is a globally unique data intensive supercomputer for environmental science. JASMIN supports the data analysis requirements of the UK and European climate and earth system modelling community. It consists of multi-Petabyte fast storage co-located with data analysis computing facilities, with dedicated light paths to various key facilities and institutes within the community.

Enabling Science

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We also run the UKSSDC and the IPCC-DDC data centres. Check out our other projects!

JASMIN

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Team

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Announcement of Opportunity - funding to support the UKRI Net Zero Digital Research Infrastructure Scoping Project Deadline for funding has been extended to Thursday 28th 1pm

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 11:38:07 +0000

As part of the Net Zero Digital Research Infrastructure Scoping project , we invite researchers and practitioners to come together in two ‘sandpit’ style events.

JASMIN 29th March maintenance work now CANCELLED, advance notice of network Intervention 18-22 June

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:23:57 +0000

Dear users,

1. CANCELLED: Further storage maintenance 29th March 2022

Maintenance work on storage scheduled for tomorrow 29th March has now been cancelled by the vendor. A new date will be arranged in due course so please look out for further announcements.

REMINDER - JASMIN further maintenance period 29th March

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 09:24:42 +0000

Dear users,

A major component of the recent work scheduled for 1st March was not able to take place, so an alternative date has now been set for this part of the work.

Your current and future needs for AI - Review of UK Digital Research Infrastructure for AI

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 08:06:10 +0000

Technopolis, on behalf of The Alan Turing Institute and UKRI, is carrying out a review to understand the UK research and innovation community’s future requirements for Digital Research Infrastructure for AI.

Tape Maintenance 18th to 28th March

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:58:15 +0000

Dear Users,

Due to a Tape Library expansion and upgrade, the tape services offered by CEDA and JASMIN will be unavailable from midday on Friday 18th March until the morning of Monday 28th March 2022.

Changes to your CEDA login account

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:29:40 +0000

Dear CEDA users,

We are currently in the process of rolling out a number of improvements to our accounts and login systems. As part of this process, we are asking users to log in to their CEDA accounts and reset or change their password if they haven’t already done so in the last month.

Advanced warning CEDA data catalogue offline 10am 15th March 2022

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:39:14 +0000

The CEDA data catalogue service ( https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk ) will be temporarily affected tomorrow at 10 am whilst the catalogue service is provisioned with additional resources.

Final reminder - JASMIN upcoming maintenance periods

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:21:24 +0000

Dear users,

This is the final reminder to please be aware of the following maintenance periods scheduled over coming weeks which may affect you:

Survey for Sentinel data users

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:47:01 +0000

Do you use Sentinel satellite data for your work? Our colleagues at JNCC are asking users of Sentinel (1&2) data how they are using it and to inform future plans for analysis-ready data.

Further Tape Maintenance 18th to 22nd February

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:19:07 +0000

Dear Users,

Due to a network upgrade, the tape services offered by CEDA and JASMIN will be unavailable from midday on Friday 19th February until the morning of Tuesday 22nd February 2022. This will affect the NLA, JDMA and ET services.

Issues affecting access to CEDA and JASMIN services for some users

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:14:50 +0000

Dear users,

We are aware that some users have been experiencing difficulties in reaching some JASMIN and CEDA services since earlier this month.

Maintenance downtime for CEDA login and accounts pages

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 10:50:47 +0000

Dear CEDA users,

We are planning an update to the CEDA login and account management servers between 10:00 am and 11:00 am on Tuesday, the 8th of February. During this time you may be unable to login to CEDA websites or check your account details.

Vacancies student placement opportunities

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:46:09 +0000

There are several exciting opportunities for students to work with the CEDA team.

Deadline for all roles is 6th March 2022, however, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancies once we have received sufficient applications.

RESOLVED JASMIN issue with access roles

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:56:57 +0000

Dear Users,

We believe that the issue with JASMIN access roles is now resolved and missing access roles have been restored. Please contact support@jasmin.ac.uk if you find any remaining issues with your access roles.

The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Survey

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:09:16 +0000

If you are part of a community that makes use of data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) , please consider completing the survey. Details from the project team below.

Vacancies Head of CEDA, Project Manager, JASMIN Director

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:04:51 +0000

We have three new exciting job opportunities to join our team. Further details are at the links below.

Head of Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (deadline extended to 23rd January)
Project Manager (deadline extended to 16th January)
JASMIN Director (deadline 23rd January)

Please contact the helpdesk if you need any additional information.

Tape services unavailable after 1700 today (14 Dec), network at risk 15 Dec

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:52:40 +0000

Dear Users,

In line with recent announcements regarding “at risk” status of tape services, please be aware that at 17:00 today, access to tape services will be closed in advance of RAL network reconfiguration work tomorrow Wednesday 15th December.
A network intervention planned for tomorrow (17:00-21:00) should not affect most JASMIN services, but there is the possibility of some disruption. Access to tape services is being paused to minimise the risk of tape operations over-running into the intervention period.

CEDA and JASMIN support over the Christmas period

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:12:45 +0000

As we approach the Christmas period, please be aware of the limited support arrangements in place which will result in CEDA and JASMIN services running “at-risk”.

JASMIN Issues with scratch and some other storage volumes, limited LOTUS support

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 10:27:20 +0000

Dear users,

We are aware of an issue with some PFS storage volumes, including:

/work/scratch-pw (but not /work/scratch-pw2)
/gws/pw/j05/ncas_obs
(possibility of other volumes /gws/pw/j05/*)

These volumes may be temporarily unavailable. LOTUS users are advised to use /work/scratch-pw2 while this is investigated with the storage vendor.
Please note that due to staff cover, response time on queries to the helpdesk may be slower than usual and we may not be able to respond to all queries individually. Please look out for further announcements.

CEDA leads UKRI’s net zero computing goals

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:44:34 +0000

The CEDA team are leading efforts in the UK’s research and innovation sector to reach net zero computing. Our data experts will recommend a plan to ensure all the digital tools used throughout the sector, from supercomputers to phones, will be carbon neutral by 2040.

JASMIN Updates reminder Network at risk 1st Dec - postponed

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:13:32 +0000

UPDATE: this work has now been postponed, please look out for further announcements. Apologies for the inconvenience, JASMIN Team.

Dear Users,

Vacancy data specialist job opportunity at NCAS

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:58:59 +0000

There is an exciting new opportunity based at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) as a Data Specialist. The role will work closely with our team to ensure NCAS funded data is provided to the CEDA Archive. For more information about the role, look on the NCAS website. Deadline to apply is 18th November.

Jaspy update, new R (jasr) environment, and Notebook Service update to be released on 16/11/2021

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:57:36 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

We are pleased to announce that (1) a new version of the Jaspy software environment, (2) a first (Jasr) R environment and an (3) update to the JASMIN Notebook Service software (using Jaspy) will be released on JASMIN on Tuesday 16th November.

Sentinel data variety and volume

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 10:34:49 +0000

The CEDA Archive now holds over 10 Petabytes of satellite data from the Sentinels - this increases in volume at over 7 Terabytes per day. We provide a mirror archive for Sentinel products, duplicating the ESA archives so that data products required by the Earth observation community are easily accessible. We update 13 Sentinel products daily with another 8 being updated monthly - many of these products are essential for researchers studying global issues such as sea surface temperature, air quality, and land-use change.

Constructing a Digital Environment webinar series – Data management and analytical tools for environmental science series

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 11:57:23 +0000

The Constructing a Digital Environment programme runs an active webinar activity. Held every three weeks, these aim to develop the digitally enabled environment to benefit scientists, policymakers, businesses, communities and individuals. We arrange our webinars predominantly into ‘series’, drawing together presentations following similar themes.

Reminder Tape service maintenance 26/27 Oct

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:37:39 +0000

Dear users

There will be a downtime for tape services (affecting Elastic Tape, JDMA and the Near-Line Archive service) on Wednesday 27th October, to apply essential updates. All tape activity will need to be stopped during the work, so in order to drain the system, these services will be unavailable to users from Tuesday 26th October until the work is completed on Wednesday afternoon.

European Climate Data Explorer an interactive tool for policy-makers

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 12:38:08 +0000

The European Climate Data Explorer ( ECDE ) is an interactive tool that provides access to climate impact data. The ECDE supports the European Green Deal , including the EU’s new strategy on adaptation to climate change . The interactive data visualisation provided by the ECDE makes accessing climate impact data easier for policymakers and other stakeholders. It helps by removing otherwise complex data processing hurdles to data discovery and exploration.

JASMIN update 1) Tape service maintenance 26/27 Oct 2) new scratch volume

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:24:10 +0000

Dear users,

Please note the following updates for your attention:

Tape service maintenance 26/27 October 2021

Disseminating essential climate data CMIP and ESGF

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:33:39 +0000

The 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project ( CMIP6 ) is an international coordinated effort to understand how the climate has changed in the past and may change in the future. It is the largest climate model intercomparison project to date and is coming to completion. Data produced by CMIP6 is essential to the 2021 assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). CEDA supports CMIP6 by providing archival, management and publication of all received data and providing analysis capabilities through JASMIN.

Reminder System Maintenance 5th October 2021

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 08:37:12 +0000

Reminder: System Maintenance planned for 5th October 2021.

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 5th October 2021, which will cause some disruption to JASMIN and CEDA services. Systems will be “at risk” and may be unavailable for all or part of the day.

Brief network interruptions Wed 29 Sept 2021

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 12:36:07 +0000

Dear Users,

We have been informed by the site network team for JASMIN’s host institution, RAL, that on Wednesday 29th September (tomorrow), the RAL site firewall will be upgraded. This work will be carried out between 07:00 and 09:00 BST. This upgrade will cause 2 short breaks (<1 minute) as the firewall is updated, but during the 2 hour upgrade window, access to systems should be considered at risk.
Although brief, these interruptions may affect all CEDA and JASMIN services.

Now resolved Issues to CEDA Archive download service

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:44:32 +0000

The below issue is now resolved.

We are currently experiencing some issues with the following CEDA Archive service:
dap.ceda.ac.uk
This will be causing some issues when you try to download data.
You can still access and download data via FTP.
See details about this here .
We are working on resolving these issues and will update progress on here ASAP.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
CEDA team

JASMIN 1) Cloud issues 2) System Maintenance 5 October 2021

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:54:52 +0000

Please note the following JASMIN announcements for your attention:

1) Issues affecting access to JASMIN Cloud via portal and SSH currently under investigation.
We are currently aware of some issues affecting management of virtual machines via the JASMIN Cloud Portal. The issues are being investigated with cooperation from the platform vendor. As far as we are aware, the virtual machines themselves are running normally and are still accessible via SSH. If you are a cloud tenancy admin and are aware of any further problems, please report these to the JASMIN Helpdesk.

New technical blog sharing expertise about managing petabytes of data

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:33:37 +0000

The CEDA team has a wealth of expertise in world-leading data management practices and software engineering that we use to support the environmental science community. We want to share our knowledge, best practices and lessons learnt with others - so have launched a new CEDA Technical Blog . This blog aims to showcase how our team uses open source tools to efficiently manage multi-petabytes of environmental data and collaborate with international research projects working on society’s most pressing environmental issues.

Vacancy two graduate roles

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:49:22 +0000

We have two new opportunities for graduates to join the CEDA team . Follow the links below for more information and how to apply.

1) Tape services maintenance 13-14 Sept, 2) Globus Endpoint changes.

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:03:06 +0000

Dear users

Please note the following JASMIN updates:

1) Tape services maintenance 13-14 September

Tape services including Elastic Tape and the Near-Line Archive service will be unavailable due to system maintenance/upgrade work on 13th & 14th September. User recalls and ingest of data will be stopped at 12:00 on Monday 13th September ahead of maintenance work on Tuesday 14th September.

JASMIN updates network maintenance

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:51:09 +0000

Dear users,

Please note the following update:

Network maintenance 21/22 August, at risk in between.

As part of work to upgrade the RAL core network (the network of CEDA and JASMIN’s host institution) to 100G, network components will be replaced during the weekend of 14th/15th August with follow-up work on 21st/22nd August. Connectivity between JASMIN/CEDA services and the outside world is expected to be disrupted over these 2 weekends to please plan your work accordingly to minimise inconvenience. The intervening week should be regarded as “at risk” and there is the possibility that changes made on the first weekend may need to be rolled back if the work cannot be completed successfully.

JASMIN updates network maintenance

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:41:19 +0000

Dear users,

Please note the following updates:

Network maintenance 14/15 & 21/22 August, at risk in between.
As part of work to upgrade the RAL core network (the network of CEDA and JASMIN’s host institution) to 100G, network components will be replaced during the weekend of 14th/15th August with follow-up work on 21st/22nd August. Connectivity between JASMIN/CEDA services and the outside world is expected to be disrupted over these 2 weekends to please plan your work accordingly to minimise inconvenience. The intervening week should be regarded as “at risk” and there is the possibility that changes made on the first weekend may need to be rolled back if the work cannot be completed successfully.

Important JASMIN updates August 2021

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:02:20 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

This message includes information about important updates on JASMIN:

Kernel patching required on all JASMIN login, sci and data transfer servers
Kernel patching required across all LOTUS compute nodes
Maximum job array size and default memory allocation to be changed
Short-serial-4hr queue configuration has changed

Details of the update

The data behind the new IPCC report

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:01:55 +0000

Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis - the Working Group I Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report - has been released today . This regular assessment provides policymakers with information on the physical science of climate change. Data from key figures of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) section are now available for anyone to access from the CEDA Archive - with more data expected in the coming months. This is the first time SPM figure data has been available on the same day as report publication.

Jupyter Notebooks for Capacity Development Webinar

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

CEDA represents UKSA/NCEO on the Committee Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) - this group hosted a virtual event called: Jupyter Notebooks for Capacity Development Webinar in July 2021.

Improved access for Met Office Weather data held in CEDA Archive

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:06:47 +0000

The CEDA Archive has been a conduit for the research community to access a range of weather data supplied by the Met Office under the NERC-Met Office agreement for many years.

JASMIN updates 1) network maintenance 2) elastic tape/JDMA

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:17:10 +0000

Dear users,

Please note the following updates:

1. Network maintenance 14/15 & 21/22 August, at risk in between.
As part of work to upgrade the RAL core network (the network of CEDA and JASMIN’s host institution) to 100G, network components will be replaced during the weekend of 14th/15th August with follow-up work on 21st/22nd August. Connectivity between JASMIN/CEDA services and the outside world is expected to be disrupted over these 2 weekends to please plan your work accordingly to minimise inconvenience. The intervening week should be regarded as “at risk” and there is the possibility that changes made on the first weekend may need to be rolled back if the work cannot be completed successfully.

CEDA and JASMIN support over summer period

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:15:41 +0000

As we approach the summer period, please be aware of the limited support arrangements in place which will result in CEDA and JASMIN services running “at-risk”.

LOTUS scheduler issues update

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:10:31 +0000

Update - 20th July 10 am:

While investigations continue into the root cause of recent problems, the cluster now appears to be behaving normally.

C3S_34e - The Link between the CDS Toolbox and the ESGF Compute Nodes

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Copernicus (C3S)

Dates: 2020-2021

Summary: Improvement on the WPS link for C3S to access climate simulations.

Aim: This project worked to build on the current WPS (Web Processing Service) framework in use by C3S to access global and regional climate simulations, which are curated and served by the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF). C3S_34e added data-reduction capability whilst establishing a reliable and robust WPS service with an initial focus on subsetting, averaging and regridding.

C3S_434 - CDS Interface to Climate-ADAPT

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Copernicus (C3S)

Dates: 2020-2021

Summary: Automated the provision of climate datasets from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store to Climate-ADAPT portal

CDS Zone 20-21

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: UKSA

Dates: 2020-2021

Aim: The UK Climate Data from Space zone (CDS zone) is a dedicated computing area comprising 700TB storage and 200 processing cores on the JASMIN infrastructure to support UK ECV processing for the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Met Office - Support for Ensembles

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Met Office

Dates: 2020-2021

Aim: Met Office interacts with large climate data archives, as scientific data provider and end-user. This funding supports the services to ingest, manage and deliver large climate multi-model ensembles such as CMIP6.

JASMIN support to JNCC

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: JNCC

Dates: 2020-2021

Aim: Support Defra-JNCC with use of JASMIN for production of Sentinel Analysis Ready Data, and provision of access to users.

ESA Digital Twin Earth Precursor

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: ESA

Dates: 2020-2021

Aim: Project led by TVUK, with NCEO, to develop a climate focused proof of concept, bringing models, data, AI and ICT together as a precursor to an ambitious European Digital Twin Earth activity.

UKCP18 Services 20-21

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Met Office/Defra

Date: 2020-2021

Aim: To provide data services to support access to the next generation of climate projections for the UK (2018).

Reminder JASMIN system maintenance tomorrow, Tuesday 6th July 2021

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 08:40:20 +0000

Dear users,

Scheduled maintenance is planned for tomorrow, Tuesday 6th July 2021, which will cause some disruption to JASMIN and CEDA services. Systems will be “at risk” and may be unavailable for all or part of the day.

C3S Oceans Data Archival

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Copernicus (C3S)

Dates: 2019-2021

Aims: Produce ocean variables data from satellite observations for Copernicus Climate Change Service

CEDA role: Archive and make available oceans data (from U. Reading) for C3S Climate Data Store

CCI Knowledge Exchange

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: ESA

Dates: 2019-2022

Summary: Provide central access to ESA Climate Change Initiative Data Products and information

Aim: Provide central access to ESA Climate Change Initiative Data Products and information

IS-ENES3 - Infrastructure for the European Network for Earth System Modelling (2019 - 2022)

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: European Commission

Dates: 2020-2022

Summary: IS-ENES3 is the third phase of the distributed e-infrastructure of the European Network for Earth System Modelling (ENES). The project involves collaboration between twenty-two European climate research institutions and aims to develop a better understanding of past and present-day climate and to project future variability and changes through the development and sharing of model components, modelling tools and data infrastructure.

C3S_34f - Maintenance of the dedicated C3S ESGF infrastructure for CMIP Global Climate Models

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Copernicus (C3S)

Dates: 2019-2021

Summary: Infrastructure and data that were supplied to C3S under a previous contract (C3S_34a Lot1) continue to be provided to support continuing work on other projects.

Supporting COP26 hackathons

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 09:59:51 +0000

Researchers across the UK have been hacking their way through Terabytes of climate data ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ) in Glasgow on 1st-12th November 2021. Three virtual hackathon events were run, during May and June 2021, by a range of UK Universities and the Met Office, covering various topics:

C3S_34g - Extension of the CDS Global Climate Model datasets to CMIP6 simulations

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Copernicus (C3S)

Dates: 2020-2021

Summary: Following on from C3S_34a Lot 1 which provided CMIP5 data via an extended and dedicated Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) subsystem consisting of three partner sites, CEDA (UK), DKRZ (Germany) and IPSL (France), this project will deliver CMIP6 data through this same channel

JASMIN status updates and reminder of planned maintenance Tuesday 6 July

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:44:56 +0000

Dear all,

See below for an update on various aspects of JASMIN services and dates for your diary. Note that these updates are also available on the website news section.

My path into Software Engineering - Elle Smith

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:16:00 +0000

Hi! I’m Elle Smith and I’m a Software Engineer at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). The first time I started to code was in my first year of university, where I was studying physics. We had a whole module learning how to apply our programming skills to solve physics-based problems. I hated this module, I felt like I never really knew what was going on, but I stuck with it. As time went on and I practiced, I started to enjoy this work more and more, although I still never considered that software engineering would be something I would pursue.

Supporting air quality assessments in the UK

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:31:55 +0000

Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk we face today. To better understand the sources of air pollution, and the impacts on our health and ecosystems, teams of researchers across the UK are monitoring the quality of the air we breathe.

JASMIN helps to predict seabird breeding abundance in a changing climate

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:28:59 +0000

Many of us have been to the coast and seen seabirds, but have you ever considered how they might be affected by climate change? The UK is surrounded by important populations of seabirds, including Arctic Tern, Kittiwake, and Puffin, that play a key role as top predators and indicators of the health of marine ecosystems. Like many animals, seabirds are exposed to climate change in both marine and terrestrial environments, but the combined effects are rarely considered. Climate change impacts seabird species through a number of mechanisms; for example, by shifting the distributions of prey species, influencing storminess which affects mortality rates, causing overheating at the nest site, or increasing sea level and reducing available breeding habitat. CEDA services were used by researchers at the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to predict future seabird abundance under both marine and terrestrial climate change, as part of the Marine Protected Area Management and Monitoring ( MarPAMM ) project.

Vacancy JASMIN Research Software Engineer

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:23:57 +0000

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Research Software Engineer, where you will develop and maintain software used to deliver JASMIN , and to operate processes which support users in their work on the JASMIN platform.

The National Centre for Atmospheric Science launches online children’s story exploring changes in air pollution

Thu, 20 May 2021 08:53:26 +0000

An inspirational online children’s story titled Grandma’s Footsteps prompts readers to take note of changes in their environment, and to imagine what they want their own future to look like.

Reminder New Jaspy python3.7 version to be released on 20/05/2021

Mon, 17 May 2021 08:21:48 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

We are pleased to announce that a new version of the JASPY Python 3.7 software environment has been released on JASMIN. It is currently ready for testing on the JASMIN “sci” servers and the LOTUS cluster.

Reboot of servers for software update, interruption in access to object store

Thu, 13 May 2021 08:25:29 +0000

Dear users,

Rescheduled work to apply a storage-related software update to key JASMIN servers (sci, xfer, hpxfer and a limited number of other machines) will take place on Friday 14th May 2021 at 08:30-10:00. A further intervention will take place during the day on Monday 17th May to reboot any servers which have not picked up the update automatically by then. In both cases, please look out for announcements at the console/command line on the machine. Sessions will be interrupted while the server is rebooted but you should be able to re-connect again after a few minutes when the machine has come back up.

1) Cancelled Reboot of servers Tuesday 11 May 2021 2) Tape library maintenance

Tue, 11 May 2021 09:32:12 +0000

Dear all,

Apologies for the short notice but the reboot of servers planned for today announced in our recent update is cancelled. This is due to the imminent availability of a newer release which will be rolled out in due course instead, timing TBC.

Community Statements of Need Survey for future NERC Data capability and Services

Tue, 11 May 2021 08:37:29 +0000

NERC is currently considering the Data Capability and Services that are provided via the NERC Environmental Data Service (EDS) and the associated data centres:

Reboot of servers Tuesday 11 May 2021

Thu, 06 May 2021 08:10:01 +0000

Dear all,

As anticipated in our recent update, a software update is now available which should address the remaining disk storage issue mentioned in earlier announcements. This update is already being rolled out across the JASMIN platform but will require a reboot of most JASMIN and CEDA servers in order to take effect.

Update on JASMIN disk and tape storage issues

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:09:53 +0000

Contents:

Update on disk storage issues
New disk storage capacity
Update on Elastic Tape service
Update on network connectivity

1) Update on disk storage issues

JASMIN storage issues and update on network connectivity

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:55:40 +0000

We are aware of current issues with one of the JASMIN storage systems. While investigations are still ongoing, the current status is as follows.

CEDA services improve access to global climate data

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000

A diverse set of companies, governments and individuals are now able to access global climate projections data via the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). C3S provides climate data to support adaptation and mitigation measures across Europe.

Reminder Network interruption tomorrow, Wed 21 April 2021

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 08:21:39 +0000

Tomorrow, Wednesday 21st April, upgrades by our host institution to the RAL site firewall will be undertaken between 06:00 and 10:00. This will involve some disruption to all services using the RAL network: this includes JASMIN and CEDA services. Please be aware of this scheduled interruption so that you can plan your work accordingly.

Join in the NERC Environmental Data Discovery Trails, you might get a reward!

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:24:02 +0000

To improve the accessibility of data collected through NERC-funded research, or managed by NERC data centres and our collaborators, a NERC programme ( Constructing a Digital Environment ) are collecting feedback on the user experience (UX) to improve the navigation of various web portals to assess these data. This is done via a series of events called the NERC Environmental Data Discovery Trails.

Cloud Upgrade, May 2021

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 08:32:23 +0000

Dear cloud tenants,

We are planning a major upgrade to JASMIN’s Cloud in May this year: The work will bring the cloud from the current “Queens” version of OpenStack to the latest compatible supported release, “Train”.

Reminder Access to CEDA and JASMIN services at risk today and tomorrow (30-31 March 2021)

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:02:50 +0000

Please be aware that due to Domain Name Server (DNS) upgrades undertaken by our host institution on 30 and 31 March 2021, there could be delays or interruptions to access to CEDA and JASMIN services after 18:00 on each of these dates.

Oceans in the Cloud working interactively with huge datasets using Pangeo

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:44:29 +0000

The properties of our oceans are changing. The Southern Ocean absorbs more heat than any other ocean and as a consequence of climate change, it is warming at an alarming rate. Warming oceans lead to a decline in Antarctic sea ice, increased ocean freshening, sea-level rise, reduced oxygen and CO2 uptake and slow the vertical exchange of waters. This may bring about increased food scarcity, diseases, extreme weather events, loss of coastal protection, and more. It is therefore extremely important to have a detailed understanding of what could happen in the future with a Southern Ocean that is warmer, less salty and is circulating in different ways.

Continuing Problems with Elastic Tape

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:32:30 +0000

Unfortunately we are still having recurring problems with the Elastic Tape system. This has resulted in further failures of both ingesting and retrieving data.
We are actively investigating this, in conjunction with our colleagues in the Scientific Computing Department (SCD). In particular our SCD colleagues have spent a lot of time trying to remedy this problem.

Reminder Brief network interruptions Today, 10th March

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:00:15 +0000

Dear users,

Please be aware that due to scheduled network maintenance carried out by our host organisation, there will be a series of brief interruptions to network connectivity (a few seconds each) today, Wednesday 10th March 2021, between 09:00 and 10:30.
These will affect network connections to the RAL site (and hence JASMIN and CEDA services), so may result in disconnected terminal sessions, interruptions to processing or data transfers in progress or availability of services.
We are informed that the interruptions will also affect connections made using the Optical Private Network (OPN) connections to Leeds, Edinburgh and the Met Office.

JASMIN System Maintenance - now complete

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:08:05 +0000

The scheduled maintenance that happened yesterday, Tuesday 2nd March 2021, is now completed.

Most JASMIN and CEDA services are back running as normal. However, there are ongoing issues related to access to MASS. We are working on resolving this ASAP.

Final Reminder JASMIN System Maintenance Tomorrow - Tues 2 March 2021

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:42:56 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd March 2021, which may cause some disruption to JASMIN and CEDA services.

Update to high-performance data transfer services

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:26:52 +0000

Dear users,

As previously announced, we are making further changes to some data transfer services:

ftp.ceda.ac.uk (CEDA Archive FTP server)
The new host for this service will operate at the same name ftp.ceda.ac.uk, but if you have used the hostname ftp2.ceda.ac.uk directly, then you are advised to change to using the alias ftp.ceda.ac.uk so that the change happens transparently to you when the old server is decommissioned.
JASMIN GridFTP Server Globus Endpoint
The Globus endpoint will change to a new server on Tuesday 2nd March. If you are using the “JASMIN GridFTP Server” Globus endpoint via Globus web or command-line interfaces, the endpoint ID of the service will remain the same but the server at the JASMIN end will change. This should only affect transfers in progress at the time of the change, so impact should be minimal given that this coincides with the planned maintenance day already announced.
However, if you use certificate-based gridftp (gsiftp) directly i.e, not via Globus Online interfaces, but with the globus-url-copy client, then the hostname data-xfer1.ceda.ac.uk will need to be replaced with gridftp1.jasmin.ac.uk in your gsiftp:// URIs. All other aspects should remain the same.

We are still investigating an issue affecting transfers to and from some file system (particularly affecting transfers made using Globus) and this is still not yet fully resolved.

Reminder Notice JASMIN System Maintenance Tues 2 March 2021

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:22:36 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 2nd March 2021, which may cause some disruption to JASMIN and CEDA services.

On a regular (roughly quarterly) basis, important updates are applied to systems within the JASMIN infrastructure (which also hosts the CEDA Archive and associated services) in order to keep them up to date and secure. Some servers may need to be rebooted in order for these changes to take effect, so there may be an interruption to some JASMIN and CEDA services on this date.
Other work may also be scheduled for this date in order to minimise disruption to users.

Working on JASMIN - a hands-on workshop

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

CEDA regularly run hands-on interactive workshops for users of JASMIN. Past event details can be seen below. Resources used in the workshops can be found here.

Update Problems with Elastic Tape

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:48:15 +0000

We believe that the problems affecting Elastic Tape and JDMA to now be solved. Users can now start using the services again.

reboot of server nx-login2 at 1600 today

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:03:12 +0000

Server nx-login2.jasmin.ac.uk needs to be rebooted at 16:00 today, Wednesday 17th February, to clear up dead/hanging processes.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

JASMIN Sci3,5 reboot at 0900 AM TOMORROW!

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:51:24 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

The JASMIN scientific analysis machines sci[3,5].jasmin.ac.uk need to be rebooted at 09:00 AM tomorrow, Wednesday 17th February, to clear up dead/hanging processes.

Problem with LOTUS batch scheduler - SLURM

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:30:00 +0000

13:30 11th Feb - update 1

There is currently an issue with the LOTUS batch scheduler - SLURM. This has manifested in unusually long pending time per job, a slow response time when querying SLURM and occasional failed job submissions.We are aware of the issue and are working on a resolution. Please do not email the helpdesk about issues related to SLURM. We will update you when we know more.

Reminder Update to high-performance data transfer services

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:58:23 +0000

Dear users,

As announced last week, the following servers will be decommissioned tomorrow Friday 12th Feb:

jasmin-xfer[23].ceda.ac.uk (high-performance data transfer servers)
now replaced by hpxfer[12].jasmin.ac.uk: please use these instead.
ftp.ceda.ac.uk (CEDA Archive FTP server)
The new host for this service will operate at the same name ftp.ceda.ac.uk, but if you have used the hostname ftp2.ceda.ac.uk directly, then you are advised to change to using the alias ftp.ceda.ac.uk so that the change happens transparently to you when the old server is decommissioned.

We have been aware for a while of an issue affecting transfers to and from some file system (particularly affecting transfers made using Globus) but this is still under investigation. Please look out for further announcements about this and replacement of the remaining high-performance data transfer servers.

Job opportunity - JASMIN Software Developer

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:14:49 +0000

Job opportunity - JASMIN Software Developer

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to contribute to the evolution of JASMIN – our globally unique facility for data-intensive computing for the environmental sciences. You will be working with world experts developing innovative technical solutions to address the challenge of building, growing and maintaining an infrastructure to support the needs of researchers in their work processing and analysing complex, high volume scientific data.

Problems with Elastic Tape

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:47:32 +0000

We have recently been having lots of problems with the Elastic Tape system. This has resulted in the failure of both ingesting and retrieving data.
We are actively investigating this, in conjunction with our colleagues in the Scientific Computing Department.

File corruption issues

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:59:16 +0000

Dear users

As reported last week, we have been dealing with an issue of apparent file corruption affecting a relatively small number of files in some volumes with paths beginning /gws/nopw/j04.
We have been receiving assistance from the storage vendor to resolve the issue and are now in a position to announce that the majority of affected files have now been successfully repaired, with no loss of user data. A process to scrub/repair a remaining list of some 1,281 files (as of earlier today) is now underway and should complete over the coming weekend. 1.4 billion files have now been checked by this process.
The vendor has provided further updated software releases which have been applied and we are now confident that once the above process has been completed, there should be no further cause for concern.

Update to high-performance data transfer services

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:35:52 +0000

Dear users,

You will be aware that many JASMIN and CEDA services were redeployed from RHEL6 to CentOS7 operating systems last year. The final few services - those deployed on physical servers in the JASMIN Data Transfer Zone - are now nearly ready for user access, so please note the following if you make use of these services:

JASMIN helps track the impact of climate change on UK birds

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:32:31 +0000

Over 600 different species of birds have been recorded in the UK to date[1] . For many of them formal monitoring is limited or absent. British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) ask for volunteers from the public to report nature observations from around the UK on mobile apps or online data entries such as BirdTrack . This is important because estimating bird distributions and population trends increases our knowledge about bird species or their habitats. Over 60,000 volunteers are involved recording bird species, resulting in a massive amount of data collected - in 2020 alone over 7.5 million records have been submitted to BirdTrack. Researchers at BTO have been using JASMIN to carry out statistical analysis on these data in order to better understand the reliability of Citizen Science data and the changes in UK bird populations that can be inferred from it.

File corruption issues

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:43:07 +0000

Dear users

We are aware of reports of apparent file corruption affecting a relatively small number of files in some volumes with paths beginning /gws/nopw/j04.
We have been receiving assistance from the storage vendor to resolve the issue and measures are now underway to repair affected files. As we understand the situation at present, no action is needed by users at this time.

Reboot of server hpxfer1.jasmin.ac.uk

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:25:33 +0000

Server hpxfer1.jasmin.ac.uk will be rebooted at 09:00 on 26/1/2021 to clear some stuck processes.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

JASMIN Team

Using CEDA for Air Quality Research - STFC Air Quality Network event

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

CEDA staff presented a webinar to members of the STFC Air Quality Network on 20th January 2021. The session covered an introduction to using the CEDA Archive and JASMIN for air quality research.

JASMIN Sci3,6,8 reboot at 0830 AM TOMORROW!

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:57:59 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

The JASMIN scientific analysis machines sci[3,6,8].jasmin.ac.uk need to be rebooted at 08:30 AM tomorrow, Thursday 21st January, to clear up dead/hanging processes.

Reminder - Change of server for Elastic Tape service.

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:19:40 +0000

The server used to access the Elastic Tape service (et1.ceda.ac.uk) has reached its end of life and is due to be decommissioned.

Helpdesk email issue please use beacon has now been resolved

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:53:43 +0000

UPDATE: The following email issue on the helpdesk has now been resolved.

Dear users

We are aware today of an issue affecting emails to our helpdesks ( support@ceda.ac.uk, support@jasmin.ac.uk and data.management@ceda.ac.uk).

Update COVID-19 impact on CEDA and JASMIN operations

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:54:36 +0000

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, we announced that all of our services should be considered at risk. Thankfully, our services have run largely as normal throughout the pandemic, but 10 months on, unfortunately, this ‘at risk’ status still stands. See below for details about how we anticipate it will continue to affect us and you.

CEDA 2020 highlights our work behind the scenes

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:37:12 +0000

Satellites and climate models are renowned for their ability to produce large amounts of data - as such, the CEDA Archive handles the largest datasets amongst the NERC Environmental Data Service (NERC’s collection of environmental data centres). Big data is not just a challenge for the CEDA Archive; the other NERC data centres are increasingly in discussions with researchers who have data that is too large for their infrastructures. As CEDA is at the forefront of development of infrastructure and services for large data volumes we have been sharing and integrating this knowledge across the NERC EDS. Here we highlight four different pieces of work that are ongoing behind the scenes to adapt to our big data challenges.

Helping users get the most out of JASMIN in 2020

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:35:01 +0000

JASMIN is a large and multi-faceted research facility that continues to grow in response to demand from growing numbers of users from a wide range of academic communities. Helping users get the most out of JASMIN is an important part of our remit. Here we highlight four different activities that have been undertaken by the JASMIN team in 2020.

Reminder CEDA and JASMIN support over Christmas period

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:37:15 +0000

A reminder there is a “change freeze” in place from 17:00 today. Requests for new or changes to existing services will not be dealt with until the New Year.

NLA unavailable from Fri 4th to Tues 7th Dec 2020

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:46:20 +0000

The Near-Line Archive (NLA) tape system will be unavailable from the evening of Friday the 4th December until Monday the 7th December 2020.
No new retrievals will be accepted from the evening of Friday 4th December, so as to allow any remaining retrievals to finish over the weekend.

CEDA and JASMIN support over Christmas period

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:42:24 +0000

As we approach the Christmas period, please be aware of the limited support arrangements in place which will result in CEDA and JASMIN services running “at-risk”.

New JASMIN website live

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:54:16 +0000

We are delighted to announce the launch of our brand new JASMIN website - https://www.jasmin.ac.uk/ . Take a look to see the difference!

Some CEDA/JASMIN Services unavailable

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:58:08 +0000

Over the last year, the team has worked hard to migrate all of our services to a new operating system (CentOS7). The deadline for this work to be achieved is Monday 30th November. The majority of user-facing services have now been migrated successfully with minimal disruption to users. However, a small number of services still need to be migrated.

LOTUS/SLURM issues update 2

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:16:30 +0000

In the past month, and following the configuration changes to LOTUS over the summer, we have not been able to fully resolve issues around longer queue wait times, despite the mechanisms outlined here.

Reminder JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 13

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:56:27 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

New MASS client server is available
Old mass-cli1.ceda.ac.uk server will be retired on Tuesday 17th November
Old jasmin-cylc.ceda.ac.uk has been retired
JASPY default version was updated on Tuesday 3rd November
Reminder to use the new login, sci and xfer servers
SLURM update

Details of the update

The new CentOS7 MASS mass-cli.jasmin.ac.uk server is now available for use.

CEDA Data Catalogue update 1700-1715 today.

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:46:15 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalogue service will be offline between 1700 and 1715 to allow the roll-out of a number of minor updates. These are primarily to aid internal CEDA work towards greater service harmonisation.

Short JASMIN outage on Wednesday 4th November at 7am

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:39:57 +0000

Dear Users,

JASMIN’s host institute at RAL are planning some short breaks in connectivity for a site wide firewall firmware upgrade. This will affect all access to JASMIN - except the DTZ machines and external cloud.

Update on tape library maintenance 26-28 Oct

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:49:01 +0000

Dear Users,

Maintenance work to the tape library has now been completed including tests to check that all is operating as expected. The tape library, and hence all tape services: Elastic Tape (ET), Joint Data Migration App (JDMA), StorageD (SD) and Near Line Archive (NLA) are therefore ready for use again.

Reminder - JASMIN‌ ‌Migration‌ ‌to‌ ‌CentOS7‌ ‌&‌ ‌LSF‌ ‌replacement‌ ‌with‌ ‌SLURM‌ ‌UPDATE‌ ‌12‌

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:36:33 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

New CentOS7 MASS client server
Old jasmin-cylc.ceda.ac.uk to be retired on Tuesday 3rd November.
JASPY default version will be updated on Tuesday 3rd November.
Reminder to use the new login, sci and xfer servers
Closing down LSF and removing access to LOTUS head node
Support for parallel NetCDF libraries (under /apps/jasmin/)
ESMValTool installed on JASMIN

Details of the update

Reminder - Tape library maintenance 26-28 Oct

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:36:30 +0000

This is just a reminder that Tape library maintenance scheduled for Tuesday 27th October will mean that the Elastic Tape (ET) and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services are unavailable from lunchtime today, Monday 26th October until the morning of Wednesday 28th October.

Tape library maintenance 26-28 Oct

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:17:21 +0000

Tape library maintenance scheduled for Tuesday 27th October will mean that the Elastic Tape (ET) and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services are unavailable from lunchtime on Monday 26th October until the morning of Wednesday 28th October.

Reboot of Globus/GridFTP server 22 Oct 1700

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:05:15 +0000

The server used as the “JASMIN GridFTP Server” Globus endpoint (data-xfer1.ceda.ac.uk), will be rebooted at 17:00 in an attempt to clear a performance issue.

HadUK-Grid version v1.0.2.1 released including data for 2019

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:28:47 +0000

In 2019 the CEDA Archive published a valuable and popular HadUK-Grid dataset collection. This collection, provided by the Met Office contains gridded climate variables derived from the network of UK land surface observations, particularly notable in that it spans a long time-series. Over the last few months the Met Office have been preparing the latest release of the HadUK-Grid data covering 1862-2019 and has now been made freely available to download from the CEDA Archive service.

CEDA Document Repository back online

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:17:02 +0000

The CEDA Document Repository, a service to host supplementary information for items in the CEDA archive, has been made available once again following a hiatus in the service to allow it to be updated.

MIDAS Open version 202007 released More UK weather station data added

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:32:14 +0000

Last year the Met Office released the “ MIDAS Open ” dataset, a publically available version of the popular, but restricted, Met Office Integrated Data Archive System ( MIDAS ) Land and Marine Surface Stations dataset. Thanks to the efforts of the MIDAS Open team at the Met Office we’ve now published an updated version of MIDAS Open, bringing in new data for 2019 and updates for some existing years too. Though aimed at being of interest to everyone, we anticipate these new data will be particularly useful for service providers or members of the public who have previously been unable to use the restricted MIDAS dataset.

LOTUS reservation for benchmark work on Saturday 17th October from 4 PM to 8 PM

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:42:40 +0000

Dear JASMIN user,

The LOTUS batch processing cluster will be unavailable for the duration of the benchmark work. The SLURM batch reservation will start on Saturday 17th October from 4 PM to 8 PM. Any job submitted before that time with a running time that goes over the reservation period will not start until after the reservation has finished. Note: jobs submitted to the long-serial queue may be affected.

‘LOTUS reservation for benchmark work’ 10 October 4pm - 8pm and 17 October 4pm to 8pm.

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:30:30 +0000

Dear JASMIN user,

The LOTUS batch processing cluster will be unavailable for the duration of the benchmark work. The SLURM batch reservation will start on Saturday 10 October 4pm - 8pm and Saturday 17th October 4pm to 8pm. Any job submitted before that time with a running time that goes over the reservation period will not start until after the reservation has finished.
Note: jobs submitted to the long-serial queue may be affected.

Update to opensearch.ceda.ac.uk

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:15:44 +0000

We will be making a quick update to opensearch.ceda.ac.uk at 13:00 today (6th October 2020).

This is as part of the JASMIN migration work which has been ongoing throughout the summer.

LOTUS/SLURM issues update

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 08:53:22 +0000

Dear all,

As you know we have recently seen some problems with the SLURM scheduler for the LOTUS batch processing cluster, with jobs remaining in the pending state for much longer than normal. This issue has been and remains a top priority for the JASMIN team to resolve. Here’s the current state of affairs:
• Today (Monday 5 Oct)
o Fair-share configuration has been adjusted to attempt to lower the priority of very large/long-running jobs (which were causing sections of the cluster to become blocked)
o An even mix of user ids is now being seen with running and pending jobs, implying that jobs are now starting to flow more normally, without being dominated by any one user.
o A fix to a storage client has been rolled out to some parts of JASMIN which fixes a write issue for some users (NB not necessarily related to scheduling issues)

CEDA Catalogue Update 5pm today

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:44:51 +0000

The CEDA data catalogue ( catalogue.ceda.ac.uk ) will be temporarily offline at 5pm today for upto 15 minutes for a quick update.

Backlog of helpdesk queries - delayed response likely

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:35:04 +0000

Dear all,

We are experiencing extremely high numbers of helpdesk queries on the JASMIN helpdesk and now have a significant backlog.

Some sci machines unavailable on Monday 21 Sept at ~0830-840

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:47:29 +0000

The following scientific analysis servers will be unavailable for 5-10 minutes on Monday, 21st September at 08:30 AM for memory changes:

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 11

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:55:11 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

This message includes information about the following:

New high-memory CentOS7 sci machines
Retiring RHEL6 high-mem Sci machines on Friday 25th September
Hpxfer servers

Details of the update

The new high-memory (1TB) CentOS7 scientific analysis server with SLURM enabled sci3.jasmin.ac.uk and sci6.jasmin.ac.uk and sci8.jasmin.ac.uk are available for users to use

System maintenance Tues 15 Sept 2020

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:51:50 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 15th September, which may cause some disruption to JASMIN and CEDA services.

On a regular (roughly quarterly) basis, important updates are applied to systems within the JASMIN infrastructure (which also hosts the CEDA Archive and associated services) in order to keep them up to date and secure. Some servers may need to be rebooted in order for these changes to take effect, so there may be an interruption to some JASMIN and CEDA services on this date. The maintenance work will also include a network change which should help prevent recent problems experienced with the virtualization cluster.

NLA unavailable from Fri 11th to Tues 15th Sept 2020

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:45:12 +0000

The Near-Line Archive (NLA) tape system will be unavailable from Friday the 11th September until Tuesday 15th September 2020.

During this time the operating system of the NLA server will be updated.

Tape library maintenance Tues 8 Sept 2020

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 08:26:29 +0000

Maintenance work on the Spectra tape library is now planned for tomorrow Tuesday 8th September, which may mean a delay to tape retrievals with Elastic Tape (ET) and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services.

Limited support for CEDA/JASMIN services until 2nd Sept

Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:53:07 +0000

In line with the bank holiday shutdown of CEDA’s host institute, the CEDA and JASMIN teams will be unavailable from 16:00 today (Friday 28th August) until 09:00 on Wednesday 2nd September.

Reminder JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 10

Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:22:34 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

This message includes information about the following:

Update on SLURM and the CentOS7 LOTUS cluster
Timeline to retire old RHEL6 login, sci and data transfer servers
New high-memory CentOS7 sci machines

Details of the update

JASMIN Services Updates

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:41:20 +0000

Dear Users,

We would like to update you about the issues that affected the JASMIN virtualisation platform yesterday, Monday 24th August. Those issues have now been resolved and all JASMIN Services are back online.

JASMIN and CEDA services currently at risk

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:24:13 +0000

We are currently experiencing issues affecting our entire virtualisation platform. This is likely to include login and sci-analysis machines, VMs in the JASMIN Cloud and many JASMIN/CEDA services. Please consider all services at-risk/unavailable until further notice.

Update on tape library maintenance 17/18 Aug

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:49:33 +0000

Dear users,

Reminder Tape library maintenance 17/18 Aug

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 09:32:42 +0000

Dear users,

This is a reminder to please be aware that further maintenance work on the tape library system used is now scheduled for Tuesday 18th August 2020 for one day, however it will be taken out of service from 17:00 today to clear any queued tasks first.
This will mean that the Elastic Tape (ET, whether accessed directly or via the JDMA interface) and Near-Line Archive services will be unavailable for this period.

Tape library maintenance 17/18 Aug

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:13:09 +0000

Dear users,

Please be aware that further maintenance work on the tape library system used is now scheduled for Tuesday 18th August 2020 for one day, however it will be taken out of service from 17:00 on Monday 17th August to clear any queued tasks first.
This will mean that the Elastic Tape (ET, whether accessed directly or via the JDMA interface) and Near-Line Archive services will be unavailable for this period.

Update to the CEDA User Database at 9pm this evening (06/08/2020)

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 08:38:37 +0000

An update is planned for the CEDA user database this evening (06/08/20) at about 9pm. This will mean that CEDA login and new user registration will not work for a few minutes. However, all CEDA services should be regarded as at risk.

Save the date! JASMIN2020 virtual event

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:37:17 +0000

This online event will take place on the mornings of Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th September - and is free to attend.

CEDA Data Catalogue Update Tuesday 10am

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:27:31 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalogue service will be briefly unavailable on Tuesday 4th August at 10am whilst some important updates to the service are rolled out.

UPDATE Tape system upgrade completed services now available for use

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 08:15:00 +0000

Maintenance work to add additional capacity to the tape library has now been completed including tests to check that all is operating as expected. The tape library, and hence all tape services: Elastic Tape (ET) and StorageD (SD) and Near Line Archive (NLA) are therefore ready for use again.

Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:18:00 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

As previously announced:

The old scratch volume /work/scratch remains available READ ONLY until Friday 31st July but will then be retired.
A new volume /work/scratch-pw is now in place on PFS (parallel file system) storage with a total capacity of 1 Petabyte.
Both /work/scratch-pw and /work/scratch-nopw have automated processes to “police” usage by deleting files that have not been accessed for the past 28 days.

Please be aware that this automated clearout process is now running on a weekly basis.

UPDATE Tape systems unavailable (duration extended)

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:43:21 +0000

Dear users,

As previously announced, maintenance work is currently underway to add additional capacity to the tape library shared by CEDA and JASMIN tape services. The tape library, and hence all tape services: Elastic Tape (ET) and StorageD (SD) and Near Line Archive (NLA) are currently unavailable.

UPDATE Tape systems unavailable 21-28 July (duration extended)

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 08:35:29 +0000

Dear users,

Maintenance work previously announced for 22-24 July 2020 will add additional capacity to the tape library shared by CEDA and JASMIN tape services. The tape library, and hence all tape services: Elastic Tape (ET) and StorageD (SD) and Near Line Archive (NLA) will be unavailable for this period.

Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:41:43 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

As previously announced:

The old scratch volume /work/scratch remains available READ ONLY until Friday 31st July but will then be retired.
A new volume /work/scratch-pw is now in place on PFS (parallel file system) storage with a total capacity of 1 Petabyte.
Both /work/scratch-pw and /work/scratch-nopw have automated processes to “police” usage by deleting files that have not been accessed for the past 28 days.

Please be aware that this automated clearout process will now start running on a weekly basis from this Friday 17th July.

Update complete data.ceda.ac.uk

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 08:39:04 +0000

The update to data.ceda.ac.uk is now completed. We apologise for a longer than expected downtime, this was caused by a slow network connection.

Tape systems unavailable 22-24 July

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 08:22:11 +0000

Dear users,

Maintenance work is planned for 22-24 July 2020 to add additional capacity to the tape library shared by CEDA and JASMIN tape services. The tape library, and hence all tape services: Elastic Tape (ET) and StorageD (SD) and Near Line Archive (NLA) will be unavailable for this period

ESGF user feedback survey

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 15:35:15 +0000

We would like to announce the launch of the ESGF user feedback survey 2020.

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 9

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 10:59:06 +0000

This message includes information about the following:

Update on SLURM & CentOS7 LOTUS cluster
sci[1,2].jasmin.ac.uk with SLURM enabled
New CentOS7 JASMIN cylc server
New CentOS7 cron server

Details of the update

1. More LOTUS hosts have been migrated to CentOS7 and added to the pool of hosts managed by the new batch scheduler SLURM. All LOTUS users are expected to use SLURM. The recording and PPT presentation of the first webinar on transitioning from LSF to SLURM are now available here

Reminder User survey to gauge needs in preparation for purchase of a new GPU cluster

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:23:13 +0000

This is just a reminder that the planned 2020 upgrade for JASMIN will include a substantial upgrade to JASMIN GPU capacity. While we have a panel of experts helping us develop requirements, it will be useful for us to get direct feedback about actual and potential GPU usage within the community of existing and potential JASMIN users. To that end we have a short survey. It should only take 5-10 minutes to complete, and we would value you doing that before the end of June.

Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:21:30 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

Please note the following changes that affect the /work/scratch
We have previously announced that the new scratch volume /work/scratch-pw is available. This volume is on PFS (parallel file system) storage with a total capacity of 1 Petabyte, but has automated processes in place to “police” usage. The old volume, /work/scratch will be available for READ access only from this Friday 26th June until 31st July. Please do not run batch jobs that write to /work/scratch as your job will fail.

JASMIN and CEDA services affected by power outage - now resolved

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:14:59 +0000

Update 1 - 22/06/2020 17:00

JASMIN and CEDA Archive services have been offline today due a power outage that affected the entire RAL site (including the JASMIN machine room) at approximately 13.30 on Monday 22 June 2020. The power is now back, but not all remaining actions can be carried out remotely.

User survey to gauge needs in preparation for purchase of a new GPU cluster

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 09:02:32 +0000

The planned 2020 upgrade for JASMIN will include a substantial upgrade to JASMIN GPU capacity. While we have a panel of experts helping us develop requirements, it will be useful for us to get direct feedback about actual and potential GPU usage within the community of existing and potential JASMIN users. To that end we have a short survey. It should only take 5-10 minutes to complete, and we would value you doing that before the end of June.

Changes to JASMIN Helpdesk

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:53:46 +0000

We are pleased to announce some changes to our user support services, aimed at improving the experience for users and making our helpdesk processes more efficient.

Demo of the JASMIN Notebook Service webinar

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In this webinar, we will talk you through some of the JASMIN Notebook Service’s key features.

The JASMIN Notebook service provides access to Jupyter Notebooks in the web browser. A Jupyter Notebook is an interactive document containing live code, documentation and visualisations that can be run and edited in a web browser.

Reminder JASMIN at-risk period 11th June 2020

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 08:58:33 +0000

We previously announced electrical work planned for the RAL site around the Bank Holiday weekend of 22nd-25th May, which carried with it a small risk of disruption to JASMIN’s power supply. In fact, the main part of this work has now been re-scheduled to Thursday 11th June 2020. The risk of disruption is small but if it occurs would result in all JASMIN and CEDA services being offline for several days if power was lost.

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 8

Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:56:13 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

This message includes information about the following:

Update on SLURM & CentOS7 LOTUS cluster
New MPI implementation on LOTUS
SLURM/LOTUS webinar
LSF-managed LOTUS resources to be reduced from mid-June.

Important reminder about the timescale: the current batch system will be unavailable after the end of June 2020. After this, users will be expected to use SLURM.

JASMIN at-risk period 11th June 2020

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 14:49:21 +0000

IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage

Thu, 21 May 2020 14:55:45 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

Please note the following changes which affect both /work/scratch and /work/scratch-nompiio
We are pleased to announce that a new scratch volume /work/scratch-pw will be available from Wednesday 27th May. This volume will be on PFS (parallel file system) storage with a total capacity of 1 Petabyte, but will have automated processes in place to “police” usage. This new volume, /work/scratch-pw will be a replacement for the current /work/scratch volume.

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 7

Wed, 20 May 2020 15:39:51 +0000

This message includes information about the following:

Update on SLURM & CentOS7 LOTUS cluster
New CentOS7 scientific servers for SLURM job submission
New documentation on LOTUS/SLURM
New CentOS7 “copy service” using LOTUS

Important reminder about the timescale: the current batch system will be unavailable after the end of June 2020. After this, users will be expected to use SLURM.

Become a CloudCatcher Climate science needs your family’s help!

Mon, 18 May 2020 14:11:45 +0000

CloudCatcher is a new project harnessing the power of citizen science to help climate change research. Scientists at CEDA’s home institute, RAL Space, need your help to check their cloud identification tools.

JASMIN low at-risk period 22nd - 25th May 2020

Mon, 18 May 2020 11:00:37 +0000

Electrical work planned on the RAL site has a small risk of loss of power to the JASMIN data centre around the Bank Holiday weekend (22nd-25th May). The risk of disruption is small but would result in all JASMIN and CEDA services being offline for several days if power was lost.

IMPORTANT Reminder The first purge of /work/scratch-nompiio is scheduled on 27th May

Mon, 18 May 2020 08:41:25 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

The /work/scratch-nompiio volume will be purged on Wednesday 27th May to empty it and reprovision it with a new fixed quota of 90TB (from 120TB).

IMPORTANT The first purge of /work/scratch-nompiio is scheduled on 27th May

Fri, 15 May 2020 08:57:59 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

The /work/scratch-nompiio volume will be purged on Wednesday 27th May to empty it and reprovision it with a new fixed quota of 90TB (from 120TB).

IMPORTANT information for ALL JASMIN USERS

Wed, 13 May 2020 16:03:11 +0000

Please check your email for an important announcement affecting all JASMIN users.

You will need to read this and take action before you next attempt to log in to JASMIN.

Reminder JASMIN maintenance & at-risk periods May 2020

Wed, 13 May 2020 08:33:53 +0000

Scheduled network maintenance on JASMIN is planned for Wednesday 13th May which requires a JASMIN downtime affecting CEDA and JASMIN systems including access to the CEDA Archive and JASMIN community cloud

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 6

Tue, 05 May 2020 14:17:55 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

We are pleased to announce the following:

Update on SLURM
New data transfer servers
New JASMIN login server

JASMIN maintenance & at-risk periods May 2020

Tue, 05 May 2020 08:41:58 +0000

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tomorrow 28 April 2020

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:24:11 +0000

A reminder that scheduled maintenance is planned for tomorrow 28th April 2020, potentially affecting some storage systems and services which rely on them.

Crucial dataset helps scientists monitor climate change

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:09:01 +0000

One of the most widely used climate datasets has released its biggest update since 2013. Since the initial launch back in 2000, the CRU TS ( Climatic Research Unit gridded Time Series ) dataset has been used in thousands of studies worldwide to support research about our changing climate.

Enabling essential climate science research

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:50:43 +0000

Climate Change is a defining issue of our time. The UK’s top 10 warmest years have all occurred since 2002, and July 2019 saw the UK’s hottest ever recorded temperature (38.7 °C). Whilst many are enjoying the unusually non-rainy British weather, it doesn’t come without costs. Extreme weather events, such as heatwaves and flash flooding, are expected to increase in severity and frequency as our climate continues to change. Extreme weather can adversely affect the way we live our lives. Loss of food production, damaging wildlife habitats, and endangering human life are just a few impacts associated with climate change. Predicting global climate change is complex and requires vast amounts of data processing capabilities. Steps must be taken to improve the accuracy of future climate models. That’s where JASMIN - a data intensive supercomputer - comes in.

Update on JASMIN Maintenance 21 April 2020

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:32:02 +0000

Following scheduled maintenance on parts of the JASMIN system yesterday, please note the following:

Servers were patched and rebooted where necessary to apply important updates. There were nearly double the number of hosts to update this time, as we transition from RHEL6 to CentOS7 operating systems, so this took longer than usual.

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Today & 28 April 2020

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 08:25:30 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Today AND 28th April 2020, some of which will result in disruption to JASMIN systems, services and data in addition to the CEDA Archive.

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tues 21 & 28 April 2020

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:38:24 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 21st AND 28th April 2020, some of which will result in disruption to JASMIN systems, services and data in addition to the CEDA Archive.

CEDA helps design new Girlguiding and Scouts challenge

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:32:20 +0000

A group of RAL Space graduates, including a member of the CEDA team, have created a new, free challenge for Girlguiding and Scout groups that is designed to introduce different science and engineering careers to young people, through hands-on activities.

JASMIN Maintenance Tues 21 & 28 April 2020

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:29:51 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 21st AND 28th April 2020, some of which will result in disruption to JASMIN systems, services and data in addition to the CEDA Archive.

GWS (/gws/nopw/j04/) performance issue

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:07:07 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

We are aware that users are experiencing difficulties with performance and access to some resources on JASMIN at present. This is due to a problem with one of the storage servers.
This will affect the performance of Group Workspaces under the path /gws/nopw/j04 - we believe that small files (<64KB) and symbolic links are more likely to be affected.

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 5

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:28:25 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the two new scientific analysis servers, “ sci1.jasmin.ac.uk ” and “ sci2.jasmin.ac.uk ” are now available with the CentOS7 systems and the new software environments1. These two VMs are available for testing and they are listed in the table of available “sci” servers shown when you log in to any of the login servers. [Please note that the domain name of the new “sci” servers has changed from “ .ceda.ac.uk ” to “ .jasmin.ac.uk ”].

COVID-19 lockdown- impact on CEDA and JASMIN operations

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:36:22 +0000

As we are sure you are already aware, the latest government restrictions on travel mean that any issues requiring physical intervention to the JASMIN infrastructure (e.g. a visit to the machine room by a member of the technical team) could now take up to a day or more to resolve. Strict procedures are in place to keep our key members of staff safe whilst they visit the RAL site - but these procedures take time to organise, hence the anticipated delays.

New service Jupyter notebooks on JASMIN

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:33:29 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of a new JASMIN service providing access to Jupyter notebooks.

What is the JASMIN Notebook service?
The JASMIN Notebook service provides access to Jupyter Notebooks in the web browser. A Jupyter Notebook is an interactive document containing live code and visualisations that can be viewed and modified in a web browser. These documents can be shared, often using GitHub, and many projects distribute example code as Jupyter notebooks. Users interact with their notebooks using the open-source Jupyter Notebook server application.

Low level of at risk for ET, JDMA, and NLA between 1400 and 1500 today

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:08:36 +0000

There is a very small risk of these services being affected by work being carried out in the machine room between these times.

Reboot of jasmin-xfer3 at 1030 today

Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:08:12 +0000

In order to clear a number of issues on the transfer server jasmin-xfer3.ceda.ac.uk , it will be rebooted at 10:30 today.

No user support for CEDA/JASMIN on Thursday 12th March

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:56:54 +0000

There will be no user support available via the CEDA helpdesk on Thursday 12th March, due to the team participating in an all-staff away day. This means user queries submitted to the helpdesk will not be answered on Thursday (and there may be a delayed response to queries submitted on Wednesday).

JASMIN2020 abstract deadline extension 16th March

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:46:40 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submissions to JASMIN2020 has been extended until Monday 16th March at midday. This will be the final hard deadline for oral abstracts, so please don’t delay in submitting your abstracts! All details about submitting can be found here: http://www.jasmin.ac.uk/jasmin2020/

Performance issues on JASMIN (6th March)

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:19:06 +0000

We are aware that performance issues on JASMIN are still causing issues for users. Please be assured that we are doing our best to address these issues in different ways behind the scenes.

Outage of ET, NLA, and JDMA - OVER

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 12:31:55 +0000

These services are now available again.

Ingestions in progress have been recommenced, but and retrievals will have to be restarted.

Outage of ET, NLA, and JDMA

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:41:18 +0000

There is a problem with the DB underlying these that is currently being investigated.

Data ingestions have been paused and will be restarted once the problem is dealt with; however current retrievals are likely to need restarting.

Performance issues on JASMIN (3rd March)

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 15:37:11 +0000

We are aware of some performance issues on JASMIN. We are currently investigating these issues and will provide updates via our news channel here.

Performance issues on JASMIN

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:04:42 +0000

JASMIN is currently under a heavy load, in part because of overuse* and inappropriate use of the scientific analysis servers . This has regularly resulted in overloading of the scientific servers causing unresponsive and slow processes/commands over the past few weeks.

Elastic Tape, NLA, and JDMA now available

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:28:39 +0000

The work on patching etc has gone well, and these systems are now available.

Data ingestions that were paused have been re-enabled.

Data Catalogue update 1600 today.

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:11:18 +0000

A quirk in the data catalogue admin interface has recently come to light concerning time zones and entering temporal extent on some records.

Virtualisation host reboot Friday 7 Feb AM virtual machines affected

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:36:05 +0000

The below work has now been completed and all services are back to normal.

An issue has been identified with one of the hypervisors (virtualisation servers) which hosts a number of CEDA and JASMIN virtual machines.

JASMIN Accounts Portal down for maintenance - 5th Feb AM

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:09:10 +0000

The JASMIN Accounts Portal will be down from 0800 on 5th February in order to move to a new server. We anticipate only a short downtime.

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 4

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:46:57 +0000

This is the latest update about migrating the JASMIN infrastructure from RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) to CentOS7 and preparing for the replacement of the LSF batch scheduler with SLURM.

Intermittent Data Download Issues

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:22:29 +0000

We are still experiencing some intermittent issues with downloading data via dap.ceda.ac.uk

Reboot of jasmin-xfer2, overloading on xfer hosts

Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:21:00 +0000

We will shortly be rebooting transfer host jasmin-xfer2.ceda.ac.uk to clear problems mainly due to overloading.

We are aware that the current period is proving very busy for the transfer servers, with many users moving data from the RDF to JASMIN. Please bear in mind that these servers are for shared use and that overloading by running multiple transfers at once will have an impact on the usability of the servers and possibly cause disruption for other users. Please be considerate in your use of these machines during this busy period.

Elastic Tape, NLA, and JDMA not available 0800-1500 Tuesday 11th February

Mon, 03 Feb 2020 08:22:31 +0000

To allow security patching and upgrades in the tape back-end, these services will be unavailable from 08:00 until 15:00.

While any data ingestions in progress will be paused during this period, users are requested to have completed any retrievals by 17:00 on the evening of the 10th, as any which may still be in progress the next morning will risk being cancelled to allow work to progress.

Improved security for JASMIN accounts - coming soon

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:50:04 +0000

We will soon be introducing two-step verification for JASMIN accounts in the next few months, take a look below to see how this will affect you.

Issue with jasmin-login and jasmin-sci* machines - now fixed!

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:55:05 +0000

The below issue seemed to be due to a network cable that was causing some problems with the slow jasmin connections. We think the issues have now been fixed.

REMINDER JASMIN systems change freeze - 24/01 to 03/02

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:21:21 +0000

There will be a freeze on any changes requested to JASMIN between Friday 24th January and Monday 3rd February. This is due to limited staff availability during this time.

Issue with jasmin-login and jasmin-sci* machines

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:41 +0000

We are aware of an issue with jasmin-login and jasmin-sci* machines. We are investigating this and are working to resolve it ASAP.

Data downloads have conked out - now fixed!

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:56:35 +0000

We believe the below issues are now resolved. Please contact us if you are still experiencing issues downloading data via dap.ceda.ac.uk

JASMIN systems change freeze - 24/01 to 03/02

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:30:00 +0000

There will be a freeze on any changes requested to JASMIN between Friday 24th January and Monday 3rd February. This is due to limited staff availability during this time.

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tuesday 14th January 2020

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:26:43 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 14th January 2020, which could result in disruption to JASMIN systems, services and data in addition to the CEDA Archive.

WPS Problems - now resolved

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:51:45 +0000

The below issue with the CEDA Web Processing Service (WPS) has now been resolved. If you are still experiencing issues, please let us know.

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tuesday 14th January 2020

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:03:43 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 14th January 2020, which could result in disruption to JASMIN systems, services and data in addition to the CEDA Archive.

Celebrating 25 years of CEDA

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:24:49 +0000

The data centre function of CEDA celebrated 25 years of existence in October 2019. As we approach the end of this year, we take a look back to see what has changed along the way.

Advance notice JASMIN maintenance Tues 14 Jan 2020

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:40:54 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 14th January 2020, which could result in disruption to JASMIN systems, services and data in addition to the CEDA Archive.

CEDA and JASMIN support over Christmas period

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:54:36 +0000

In line with the Christmas shutdown of CEDA’s host institute, STFC, the CEDA and JASMIN teams will be unavailable from 15:00 on Tuesday 24th December 2019 to 09:00 on Thursday 2nd January 2020. However, there will also be minimal helpdesk support before and after this period (from Friday 20th December until Monday 6th January) due to extremely limited staff availability.

Using Python on JASMIN webinar

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar explored four case studies for using Python on JASMIN. In a 1 hour webinar, we cannot teach the entire Python language to beginners - but we hope our examples will give you an idea of the things Python can be used for to do science-related coding. Each case study is represented as a Python script that you could run interactively on JASMIN.

Designing efficient workflows on LOTUS webinar

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar demonstrates two workflows for using LOTUS*. The first example will show you how to build a workflow that can be re-submitted without re-running previously completed tasks and which reports failures in a traceable way. The second example will help you learn how to submit, monitor, and control high throughput workloads using the LSF “job array” utility. Both examples aim to increase users understanding of how to use LOTUS efficiently.

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 UPDATE 3

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:47:37 +0000

This is the third update about migrating the JASMIN infrastructure from RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) to CentOS7.

There are 2 main strands to this activity:

Save the date! JASMIN2020 conference dates now announced

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:39:25 +0000

Further details will be announced in the New Year - please save the date in the meantime!

Issues with downloading data - 29/11/2019

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:06:59 +0000

We are currently experiencing difficulties with www.dap.ceda.ac.uk - this is a service that allows web downloads from the CEDA Archive data browser ( www.data.ceda.ac.uk ).

JASMIN maintenance now complete, some changes to LOTUS queues - please read

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:08:19 +0000

Yesterday’s JASMIN maintenance went well and the work has now been completed. All services are back to normal - please let us know if you don’t think this is the case.

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA now available

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 10:29:10 +0000

The database migration has been completed a lot faster than expected, and so ET, NLA, and JDMA are now available.

REMINDER JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:31:27 +0000

This is another reminder that further scheduled maintenance is required TOMORROW (Wednesday 27th November) to supplement the work recently undertaken on 14th October. We anticipate the work will take all day.

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA not available - from 1600 TODAY

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 08:54:21 +0000

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA not available - from 16:00 today (26th November) and should be considered at risk until the end of Thursday 28th November.

http//data.ceda.ac.uk/ may experience short disruption Monday 25th November

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:32:19 +0000

http://data.ceda.ac.uk/ may experience short disruption Monday 25th November. This is to allow us to make a small improvement to the service to show files which are stored in our offline tape server.

CEDA Apprentice wins two STFC awards

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:12:14 +0000

Congratulations are in order for CEDA’s current apprentice, Matthew Richards, after he won an award at STFC RAL’s annual Apprentice Awards Evening. The award ceremony is held to ‘recognise the achievements of all of our apprentices working across the breadth of operations.’ Matthew received the Apprentice Peer Support award and was ‘highly commended’ for the Apprentice Outreach Award.

REMINDER JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:36:20 +0000

This is another reminder that further scheduled maintenance is required on Wednesday 27th November to supplement the work recently undertaken on 14th October. The work this time will focus mainly on the Panasas system, used for parallel file system (PFS) storage.

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA not available - from 1600 Tuesday, November 26 until Wednesday 27th - at risk Thursday 28th

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:12:40 +0000

The databases underlying these systems are being migrated to improved hardware during this period. While the systems are expected to be available along with the rest of JASMIN, there will be an at risk period while the systems are monitored to ensure they behave correctly.

REMINDER JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:53:24 +0000

This is just a reminder that further scheduled maintenance is required on Wednesday 27th November to supplement the work recently undertaken on 14th October. The work this time will focus mainly on the Panasas system, used for parallel file system (PFS) storage.

JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:16:01 +0000

Further scheduled maintenance is required on Wednesday 27th November to supplement the work recently undertaken on 14th October. The work this time will focus mainly on the Panasas system, used for parallel file system (PFS) storage.

Now resolved Issues to dap.ceda.ac.uk service

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:15:52 +0000

The below issues have now been resolved. Please contact the CEDA helpdesk if you experience futher issues.

We are currently experiencing some issues with the following CEDA Archive service:
dap.ceda.ac.uk

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA - end of at risk period - Wednesday 6th November 0900-1300

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:51:14 +0000

The update activity is now complete.

MIDAS Open version 201908 released More UK weather station data added

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year the Met Office released the “ MIDAS Open ” dataset, a publically available version of the popular, but restricted, Met Office Integrated Data Archive System ( MIDAS ) Land and Marine Surface Stations dataset. Thanks to the efforts of the MIDAS Open team at the Met Office we’ve now published an updated version of MIDAS Open, bringing in new data for 2018 and updates for some existing years too. Though aimed at being of interest to everyone, we anticipate these new data will be particularly useful for service providers or members of the public who have previously been unable to use the restricted MIDAS dataset.

Using JASMIN for the largest ever UK wildlife assessment

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:24:16 +0000

Most of the UK’s wildlife is in decline, according to the 2019 State of Nature (SoN) report . However getting to this statement was not an easy process. Imagine trying to measure trends across thousands of different species and millions of datapoints, with biases in the data thrown in for added complexity… but that’s exactly what scientists have now done. The most comprehensive SoN report has now been completed with the help of JASMIN - our globally unique petascale analysis facility for data-intensive environmental science. Researchers relying on JASMIN for their data analysis contributed information to the SoN report, including several wildlife groups that had previously been impossible to analyse.

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA - at risk Wednesday 6th November 0900-1300

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:44:37 +0000

The databases of the tape back-end to these systems are having security patches from 09:00 on Wednesday 6th November.

The process could take up to 4 hours.
While the process should be transparent, there is a small risk of individual retrievals being disrupted or delayed, so users are advised to check that any retrievals have completed properly during this period.

CEDA Archive issues now resolved

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:41:20 +0000

We have now resolved the issues affecting the following CEDA Archive services:
data.ceda.ac.uk
dap.ceda.ac.uk

Some CEDA Archive services currently unavailable

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:29:07 +0000

We are currently experiencing some issues with the following CEDA Archive services:
data.ceda.ac.uk
dap.ceda.ac.uk

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 UPDATE 2

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:07:44 +0000

This is the second update about our progress towards updating our infrastructure from RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) to CentOS7.

JASMIN External Cloud Tenancies Network change today

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:40:52 +0000

A network change that will affect a number of virtual machines in External Cloud tenancies is scheduled for today, October 24. If your VMs are going to be affected, you have been already notified about the potential disruption, and you need to take no further action. The disruption will happen in an ad-hoc manner during the day and it will last an expected maximum of 5 minutes per case.

JASMIN & CEDA Services at risk Wednesday 30th Oct

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:58:09 +0000

We have been informed that due to electrical work associated with construction in the vicinity of the building in which JASMIN is hosted, there is a low level of risk that power supplies could be affected on this date.

Update for yesterday’s system maintenance

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:16:20 +0000

Yesterday’s scheduled maintenance went well and we anticipate services to be back to normal. However, we are aware of a few outstanding issues - we are working on these and will update on progress here.

Migration of JASMIN virtual machines - how will this affect you?

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:05:49 +0000

RHEL6 virtual machines to be migrated to CentOS7
Currently, many CEDA and JASMIN services are hosted using virtual machines (VMs) which run on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6). These will soon need to be migrated to VMs based on the CentOS7 operating system. This is because:

Reminder system maintenance Today 15 October 2019

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:48:22 +0000

Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 15th October, which will result in many systems, services and data (including parts of the CEDA Archive) being unavailable for much of the day. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Issues with accessing GWS volumes

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:35:09 +0000

We are currently aware of issues accessing some group workspaces from several machines within JASMIN.

The system team is currently investigating and we hope to have further news in due course.

ET retrievals and NLA - at risk Thursday 5th Sept 0800-1600

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:00:20 +0000

The tape back-end to these systems are being upgraded on this day.

While the process should be transparent, there is a small risk of individual retrievals being disrupted, so users are advised to check that any retrievals have completed properly during this period.

ET and NLA - Interruption for retrievals tomorrow

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:42:48 +0000

Retrievals from the ET and NLA services will not be possible from 0700 tomorrow, Tuesday 20th August, until 1300. This is to allow the replacement of hardware within the tape system.

LOTUS service currently reduced

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:39:11 +0000

We are currently experiencing some problems with LOTUS capacity due to a power cut at the weekend. We expect LOTUS jobs may take a little longer to run until the problem has been resolved. We are working to fix this as soon as possible. Remedial work is underway and we expect it to be completed in the next few days, when services will resume as normal.

Reduced services on 26/27th August and surrounding weeks

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:47:40 +0000

CEDA and JASMIN services will be unsupported on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th August due to the UK summer bank holiday. No helpdesk queries or services will be answered or fixed on these dates.

A day in the life of a work experience student

Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:10:47 +0000

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting a Year 12 work experience student, Katherine, within the CEDA team. She wrote us a blog post, take a look below to see what she got up to…

ET and NLA - return to service

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:45:16 +0000

The problematic hardware has now been replaced and the system tested. ET and the NLA are now back in full service.

ET and NLA - Outage scheduled for Monday 5th extended

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 16:08:30 +0000

The hardware problems that are affecting the tape system are more severe than previously thought. This means that the hardware is being replaced and so the outage must be extended.

JASMIN Unmanaged Cloud and DTZ servers at risk 14th August

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:27:07 +0000

The link between the JASMIN Unmanaged Cloud and the JASMIN Data Transfer Zone will be upgraded from 2x10Gb to 2x40Gb during the 14th August.

ET and NLA - Outage scheduled for Monday 5th, plus possible at risk period

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:25:13 +0000

Last week, problems were discovered in the DB infrastructure underlying the tape system (CASTOR). It has not yet been possible to identify causes of these problems, so the hardware providers are now involved and are requiring extensive investigations which will mean that the tape system will be out of service from 10:00 on Monday the 5th of August. It is scheduled to be back on-line by 16:00.

ET and NLA - return to normal service

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:20:23 +0000

The ET and NLA services are now back to normal service. A hardware fault reducing redundancy has been identified, and a further outage will have to be scheduled to deal with this, but no date has been agreed yet.

Data transfer service at risk TODAY (Weds 17th July)

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:22:45 +0000

At some time this morning (Weds 17th July) there may be a short interruption to connectivity of services within the JASMIN Data Transfer Zone (DTZ) to storage.

CEDA Archive data catalogue unavailable 400pm today

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:28:16 +0000

The CEDA data catalogue service will be briefly unavailable at 4:00pm today, Thursday 11th July.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

CEDA Team

Reboot of cems-sci2, jasmin-sci3 1630 Thurs 4 July

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:32:04 +0000

The scientific analysis servers cems-sci2 and jasmin-sci3 have been suffering impaired performance for the past few days and need to be rebooted to clear a number of accumulated issues.

Network maintenance Saturday 6th July

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:17:08 +0000

JANET and STFC networking have announced maintenance work on the RAL site primary network link on Saturday. This will likely affect the JASMIN private networks (OPNs) to MetOffice , Archer and Leeds. The disruption will involve breaks of up to an hour on Saturday morning.

CEDA Data Catalogue Service update 2nd July 1000 - 1030

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:05:58 +0000

The CEDA data catalogue service will be temporarily offline between 10:00 - 10:30 tomorrow, 2nd July to allow for the roll out of an update.

Our first ever ‘hands on’ JASMIN workshop

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:33:41 +0000

On Wednesday 26th June, we welcomed 28 JASMIN users to our first ever hands-on interactive training event. The workshop consisted of a short introduction, followed by nine scenario based exercises that encourage good practice for using JASMIN. Participants left the day with a set of common examples of how to use JASMIN efficiently which allows for easy adaptation to suit their individual workflows as appropriate.

ET and NLA returned to service

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:45:51 +0000

The problem has now been dealt with, and service has returnwed to normal.

Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

ET and NLA affected by back-end network outage

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:45:35 +0000

There is a problem with the network connecting these systems to the tape system, which is being addressed urgently.

Until the problem is fixed, data can be registered for ingestion but will not be sent to tape until the problem is fixed. Likewise, any retrieval requests submitted are likely to fail.

LOTUS LSF Upgrade Thursday 27th June

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:46:40 +0000

As previously announced, the LSF job management system used for JASMIN’s LOTUS batch processing cluster, will be upgraded tomorrow (Thursday 27th June) with LOTUS unavailable for the whole day. This involves migrating the LSF master to new hardware and upgrading the LSF software version. Queues will be closed as of the evening of Wednesday 26th June after which it will not be possible to submit new jobs until after the work has completed.

JASMIN access issues today are now fixed

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:55:13 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

JASMIN access issues from this morning should now be fixed. We are still investigating some storage issues found in some GWS’s.

JASMIN access issues

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:08:35 +0000

We are aware of issues for users accessing JASMIN. We are currently investigating the cause and will update with more details via the JASMIN mailing list, news channel and Twitter when we know more details.

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:42:36 +0000

Today, TV meteorologists are raising awareness about climate change by ‘showing their stripes’ on their live forecasts. The freely available striped climate graphics are being shared on TV and Twitter to highlight rising temperatures in countries across the globe. This campaign is led by Professor Ed Hawkins ( NCAS , University of Reading) who used HadUK-Grid data to create the UK climate graphics. This data is freely available to download from the CEDA Archive.

CEDA Archive data catalogue update 1600-1630 today

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:13:39 +0000

The CEDA data catalogue will be updated this afternoon to address some bugs following the latest update. The service will be down at around 1600 for up to 30 minutes.

JASMIN Accounts Portal Maintenance

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:54:30 +0000

The JASMIN Accounts Portal will be down for maintenance tomorrow (11 June). The service should be considered at risk all day.

Being ‘fussy pedants’ for the sake of climate science

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:37:48 +0000

CEDA and NCAS scientists have been busy documenting the experiments that will be run by climate models all over the world for the next big Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) . Their paper about the methodology they used to describe the CMIP6 experiments was published in GMD Discussions on Wednesday.

ET and NLA affected by back-end tape outage

Thu, 30 May 2019 18:19:12 +0000

There is a problem with the tape drives behind these systems which is being addressed urgently.

Until the problem is fixed, data can be registered for ingestion but will not be sent to tape until the problem is fixed. Likewise, any retrieval requests submitted are likely to stall.

Supporting scientists to study our complex planet

Thu, 23 May 2019 14:27:38 +0000

The CEDA team are using data science expertise to support a major project that will warn us of changes in the Earth’s ecosystem.

IMPORTANT Rebooting jasmin-sci[1,4] at 330PM Today!

Wed, 15 May 2019 13:18:47 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

The JASMIN scientific servers jasmin-sci1 and jasmin-sci4 need to be rebooted at 3:30 pm today to clear up the broken mounts/dead
processes.

IMPORTANT Server reboot affecting JASMIN sci & LOTUS on Monday 13-May-2019

Fri, 10 May 2019 10:39:22 +0000

Dear JASMIN users,

We urgently need to reboot the server that hosts
the volume ‘/apps’ and `/apps/contrib’
on Monday 13th May 2019 at 9:00am.
Large numbers of JASMIN servers (scientific servers, LOTUS)
will be briefly unavailable for approximately an hour.

Improvements to data.ceda.ac.uk Thursday 9th May 930

Wed, 08 May 2019 16:02:56 +0000

We will be performing a quick update to the browsing service following the changes on Tuesday. This will make sure users are properly redirected to sign in pages when trying to access restricted datasets.

CEDA Archive Browser download improvements scheduled for Tuesday 7th May

Fri, 03 May 2019 10:02:06 +0000

We will be performing a planned upgrade to our download, OPeNDAP and archive browsing services. This will allow images and text to be displayed in the browser, rather than downloaded.

Elastic Tape now fully available

Wed, 01 May 2019 12:42:39 +0000

The upgrades to the CASTOR DB have been verified and no reversion will be necessary, so data which has been reported by ET as being on tape can now be deleted safely.

CLIPC

Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: EC

Dates: 2013-2016

Aim: Climate Information Platform for Copernicus: provide access to climate information of direct relevance to a wide variety of users, from scientists to policy makers and private sector decision makers.

Elastic Tape and NLA now available

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:43:15 +0000

The upgrades to the CASTOR DB have gone well and so systems are now available again. However, ET users are reminded that there is still a possibility of as yet undiscovered problems appearing, and so they should not delete data from disc until after a further message is issued saying that things are all verified as working.
It is hoped to send this message early tomorrow.

CEDA Archive data browser unavailable 900-1300 30th April

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:57:41 +0000

The CEDA Archive data browser (data.ceda.ac.uk) will be unavailable tomorrow morning (30th April) due to an upgrade. We hope that service will be back to normal from 1pm, however they should be considered at risk all day.

CCI Open Data Portal

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: ESA

Dates: 2015-2018

Aim: Provide central access to ESA Climate Change Initiative Data Products and information

CEDA role: Central archive, data access services and metadata

EUSTACE

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: European Commission

Dates: 2015-2018

Aim: Derivation of surface air temperature consistently across all surfaces of Earth from land and lakes to ocean and ice

BACI

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: European Commission

Dates: 2015-2018

Aim: The integration of ground and space observations leads to a series of new downstream products (biodiversity indicators) that can be directly interpreted by the user community.

FIDUCEO

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: European Commission

Dates: 2015-2019

Aim: The FIDUCEO project will build nine new climate datasets from Earth Observation using a rigorous treatment of uncertainty, informed from the discipline of metrology (measurement science).

IMPORTANT jasmin-sci4 reboot at 330pm Today

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:02:06 +0000

Dear All,

The JASMIN scientific server jasmin-sci4 needs to be
rebooted at 3:30 pm today to clear up stuck processes using on
this machine.

C3S311a Lot 2 (in-situ obs for Copernicus)

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Copernicus (C3S)

Dates: 2017-2020

Aim: provide a step change in access to, and quality of, global long-term land and surface-ocean Essential Climate Variable (ECV) records for use by Copernicus.

PRIMAVERA

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: European Commission

Dates: 2015 - 2019

Aim: To develop a new generation of global high-resolution climate models

CEDA role: data archival and JASMIN infrastructure resource provider

Update JASMIN Cloud upgrade

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:09:48 +0000

Yesterday (17 April), we intended to upgrade the JASMIN OpenStack Cloud from the current Mitaka-based release to the most recent Queens-based release. However, we were unable to fully complete the upgrade.

UKSA Copernicus Data Support

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: UKSA

Dates: 2018 - 2019 (with possible extension into future years)

Aim: Acquire and archive Copernicus Sentinel data from all satellites (priority focus on UK, but most global)

UKCP18 Services

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Met Office/Defra

Dates: 2018 - 2019

Aim: To provide data services to support access to the next generation of climate projections for the UK (2018).

UKCP09 User Interface

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Environment Agency

Dates: 2018 - 2019

Aim: Provide access to the UK Climate Projections (2009) via a web-interface and web processing service.

MOHC Data Pipeline

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: BEIS (via Met Office)

Dates: 2018 - 2021

Aim: Supporting CMIP climate model data movement from the Met Office to the CEDA archive and ESGF.

Storage Problems on JASMIN has now been resolved

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:32:59 +0000

There have been some issues with the JASMIN storage cluster which have created problems effecting access to some Group Workspaces and causing JASMIN and CEMS to hang.

Changes to the look of the CEDA archive web download service

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:00:57 +0000

We are updating the CEDA archive download service found in this link: http://data.ceda.ac.uk/

CEDA at EGU 2019

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:13:53 +0000

Three members of the CEDA team are attending this year’s European Geophysical Union General Assembly in Vienna. You can see the details of our submissions below.

IPCC DDC

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: BEIS

Dates: 2018- 2020 (may be extended)

Aim: Provide support and upgraded services to the IPCC Designated Data Centre

ESA DAP support for UKSA

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: UK Space Agency

Dates: 2018 - 2019

Aim: Represent UKSA in LTDP Working Group and PV2018 Conference Organisation

CEDA role: Point of contact for UK engagement in LTDP WG, participate in meetings. Organise and Host PV2018 Conference at RAL Space

Pest Risk Modelling in Africa (PRISE)

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: UKSA IPP programme

Dates: 2016 - 2021

Aim: PRISE will improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by reducing crop losses caused by pests across six sub-Saharan African countries. This will be achieved through: An early warning system being created to predict the risk of pest outbreaks using cutting-edge space infrastructure, Earth Observation data and state-of- the-art modelling techniques.

CEDA Archive partial storage issues final update

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:21:25 +0000

The CEDA team have now restored the vast majority of datasets affected by the error that caused data to be mistakenly deleted. All priority datasets have now been restored. A small number of datasets are still awaiting restoration due to needing additional storage space - we are working on this and anticipate these datasets to be fully restored in the next few weeks. We still foresee a few problems, so please tell us if you spot anything.

CEDA Archive web browser currently down

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 08:19:32 +0000

The CEDA Archive web browser (data.ceda.ac.uk) is currently down. We are working to resolve this issue ASAP and will post updates as necessary.

CDS Zone

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: UK Space Agency

Dates: 2016-2018

Aim: The UK Climate Data from Space zone (CDS zone) is a dedicated computing area comprising 400TB storage and 200 processing cores on the JASMIN infrastructure. A suite of software tools will be developed that operate across ECV processing chains and allow users and data producers to view, show and interact with the system status - ECV Data Viewer and ECV Processor Dashboard (allowing engineers, data producers and users to visually check on processor and data output status)

C3S Regional Climate Projections for CDS

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Copernicus (C3S)

Dates: 2017-2021

Aim: This project will make regional climate projections data available via an Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) node; and offer compute services

C3S Climate Projections for CDS

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: Copernicus (C3S)

Dates: 2016-2019

Aim: The Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) will interact with a range of remote data and compute services. This project will provide an Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) node and compute services providing access to a coherent collection of quality assured climate projections.

Sentinel Data Relay Hub

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Funder: European Space Agency

Dates: 2015 - 2018

Aim: Operate data relay hub for ESA Sentinel Ground Segment

CEDA role: Install and operate relay hub system to pull data from ESA Hub to the CEDA Archive

CEDA staff deliver training for Earth Observation scientists

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:27:25 +0000

Earlier this month, CEDA provided a two day Researchers Forum on behalf of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO). 26 delegates attended the event which covered the theme of preparing data for the CEDA Archive and using JASMIN to process data. The training was provided by CEDA staff and included presentations, a practical workshop and tours of JASMIN and RAL Space facilities.

CEDA Archive access via data.ceda.ac.uk currently down

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:13:54 +0000

We are currently experiencing difficulties with network issues. This is affecting some of our services, including access to the archive via data.ceda.ac.uk.

CEDA Archive partial storage issues update

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:39:02 +0000

CEDA are still in the process of restoring the affected parts of the archive. Some priority datasets have already been restored from backups and are now visible. We are anticipating some problems with access from JASMIN due to the permissions being incorrectly set, we will endeavour to correct these as soon as possible.

Update re. offline /group_workspaces/jasmin4/

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:06:46 +0000

The /group\_workspaces/jasmin4 volumes have been stable overnight and are now officially back online.

The SOF storage (where many of the GWS sit) was struggling with parallel writes. This caused a bug to occur in the hardware.

Update re. offline /group_workspaces/jasmin4/ - please check your code!

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:12:50 +0000

The following group workspaces are still offline:
/group_workspaces/jasmin4/

This downtime is caused by a bug in the storage that the GWS’s are hosted on. The error is triggered by the use of parallel writes within the GWS. The SOF storage that the GWS’s are located on do not allow use of parallel writes; please refer to the documentation here for guidance about how to avoid using parallel writes within the new GWS’s: https://help.jasmin.ac.uk/article/4700-understanding-new-jasmin-storage .

/group_workspaces/jasmin4/ volumes are currently offline

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:52:22 +0000

Due to technical difficulties the following group workspaces are currently offline:

/group_workspaces/jasmin4/

We are working to resolve this issue but are unable to provide a time frame for resolution at present.

CEDA Data catalogue service restored

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:37:05 +0000

The CEDA data catalogue service issue identified this morning has been resolved and the catalogue search and record listings is working once again.

CEDA Archive catalogue search presently down.

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:20:48 +0000

Users of the data catalogue may be aware that the data catalogue search is presently unable to display any results. This also appears to affect some record listings on catalogue pages.

Exciting changes planned for upcoming JASMIN events

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:42:52 +0000

CEDA is currently planning a range of new events, including workshops and webinars, to complement the regular JASMIN conference. From your feedback, we have realised that you want a range of hands on and interactive training events - so that’s what we have planned! So this year, instead of the conference, we will be running a minimum of three webinars and three workshops. We also aim to have a JASMIN presence at the NCEO and NCAS conferences/staff meetings.

CEDA Archive partial storage issues update

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:52:41 +0000

UK weather station records now freely available to all MIDAS Open

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:09:55 +0000

Measurements of historical weather variables across the UK are now freely available to all, through the Met Office “ MIDAS Open ” dataset held at CEDA. This new dataset is an open data version of the popular Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) for land surface station data (1853-2017). MIDAS Open contains UK weather observations for the UK that can now be accessed by everyone, rather than restricted to academic use as in the full MIDAS dataset. We anticipate this to be particularly useful for researchers, service providers or members of the public who have previously been unable to use MIDAS data.

CEDA Archive partial storage issues affecting CMIP5, MSG and other datasets

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:47:31 +0000

A part of the CEDA Archive is presently down affecting the following datasets:

parts of the CMIP5 archive
parts of the MSG datasets

Call for CEDA Impact Stories why this is essential and how you can help!

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:56:59 +0000

What are impact stories and why are they essential?

Firstly - let’s explain what we mean by ‘impact stories’. These ‘one-pagers’ are short case studies about how CEDA services have enabled you (our users) to complete your research projects. This may be because JASMIN helped you process vast amounts of climate data, the CEDA archive provided invaluable satellite data to aid your research, or maybe CEDA staff members provided you with expertise and guidance about data formatting.

Latests improvements to the CEDA Catalogue

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:56:32 +0000

CEDA’s data catalogue service was updated last week as part of improvements to our Elasticsearch service. This technology underpins our catalogue search tool as well as CEDA’s flight-finder and Satellite finder tools. It will also be underpinning future service developments in CEDA - watch this space for more announcements on this!

Helping you work effectively with new JASMIN storage

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:07:26 +0000

JASMIN continues to grow as a unique collaborative analysis environment for an expanding community of scientists. We have attempted to address some big challenges, such as the ever-growing demand for storage space and the increasing diversity of scientific workflows, with the Phase 4 upgrade. However, we’re aware that some aspects of the changes introduced in Phase 4 have presented some challenges in themselves. Therefore, we have put together some new documentation about the challenges and summarised what can be done to help deal with them.

Data Catalogue Service back up.

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:47:18 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalogue service is available once again following the completion of our move to using HTTPS for this service.

UKRI Cloud Workshop - free registration now open

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:45:23 +0000

The UKRI Cloud Workshop is being held on the 12th February at the Francis Crick Institute in central London.

The event provides an opportunity for the members of the UK research community to meet and find out more about how they can make use of cloud computing with their research or share experiences and best practice with existing applications that run on cloud.

Prestigious ESGF awards for CEDA staff members

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:04:03 +0000

Earlier this month, three CEDA staff members were presented with awards at the annual ESGF conference. The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a collaborative project for distributing climate data, especially from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) models. It gives users a unified interface to search for and download data hosted at numerous data centres internationally.

NEW DATASET LAUNCHED HadUK-Grid

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:09:24 +0000

The CEDA archive has published a valuable new dataset this week, called HadUK-Grid. This dataset, provided by the Met Office, is a collection of gridded climate variables derived from the network of UK land surface observations. What makes this dataset notable is that it spans a long time-series (1862-2017) and is freely available to download from our archive.

An introduction to NAG & NAG/Python interface on JASMIN workshop

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

NAG have just announced the availability of the new NAG Library for Python. The re-engineering of the NAG Library for Python offers many usability improvements enabling quicker application development including, self-contained routine documentation, thread-safety, curated examples demonstrating important algorithmic and Python-related functionality, support for native Python callbacks and C language routine equivalents giving a unified route from prototyping in Python to deploying as compiled code.  

Important use of JASMIN storage - ALL USERS PLEASE READ

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:55:00 +0000

As we proceed with providing storage space to Group Workspaces on JASMIN’s new Scale-Out File System (SOF) storage, it is important that users understand some critical differences between this storage and the Panasas storage used elsewhere in the system.

Git and GitHub webinars

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar provides an introduction to using Git and GitHub to manage, share and backup your code. We will discuss:

Why you should use version control
What GitHub is
How to get started with GitHub
Additional useful commands

At the end of the webinar you should be able to organise your code into a git repository and see it on GitHub along with knowing how to edit and update the repository. This will allow you to keep track of changes and easily share your code with others. This is a basic introduction, a more detailed look is found down below.

Goodbye JASMIN1, hello JASMIN4

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:45:29 +0000

After six years of faithful service, the last 4.5 Petabytes of JASMIN1 Panasis storage has undergone its final secure erase, ready for decommissioning. This is one of the many steps being undertaken during JASMIN Phase 4 which will see the capacity increase to over 44PB by the end of 2018. Examples of this ongoing work include:

Introduction to LOTUS - JASMIN's batch computing cluster webinar

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

LOTUS is a JASMIN* service which enables efficient scheduling of large scale data analysis tasks. This is useful for researchers wanting to improve or change their workflows for carrying out tasks such as processing high resolution climate simulations, tracking tropical cyclones or other data intensive tasks.

Give us your data - how to prepare your research for the CEDA Archive webinar

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar focussed on how researchers can prepare their research for the CEDA Archive*, covering the following topics:

Who we are
Data Management Planning
Metadata
Preparing data (formats)
How to submit data

Anyone with an interest in uploading data to CEDA will benefit from watching this video.

Two graduate vacancies now open. Closing date 28th October

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:55:04 +0000

We are pleased to announce that two graduate posts are now open for applications. Details for how to apply can be found on the links below, closing date is 28th October.

CEDA dataset expertise informs Google’s new dataset search

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 08:58:54 +0000

CEDA staff have contributed to a new search tool launched on 5th September by Google that aims to help scientists, policy makers and other user groups more easily find the data required for their work and their stories, or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity.

CEDA Archive Support for ERA5 use

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:00:36 +0000

The CEDA user communirt have made great use of ECMWF’s ERA Interim reanalyis data over recent years, taking advantage of having co-hosted access to these and other data from the CEDA archives alongside their own resources within the JASMIN environment. ECMWF are presently producing their latest re-analysis product, ERA5, which promises even greater spatial and temporal resolutions as well as new parameters. However, with improved resolution comes greater data volumes, with ERA5 forecast to produce around 10 Pb worth of data by the end of 2018.

Experiencing life at CEDA a Year 12's placement week

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:00:29 +0000

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting a Year 12 work experience student, Annsha, within the CEDA team. She wrote us a blog post, take a look below to see what she got up to…

Help us make an impact! One survey, six focus groups and an MSc project how we plan to better evidence our impact

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:18:24 +0000

The Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) needs to keep users and stakeholders informed of the latest developments, but also evidence the impact of its services (i.e. the CEDA archive, JASMIN) to its funders. To help do this we have created a new role within the CEDA team; meet our Communications Manager, Poppy Townsend. Poppy is now responsible for our external communications to users, such as social media and website content, as well as working out how best to measure our impact.

Third annual JASMIN conference presentations available now!

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:33:08 +0000

Scientists using the UK’s largest environmental super computer and data store gathered last month to share their experiences of big data environmental science and now you can view their presentations too.

JASMIN Conference 2018

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Conference Programme

Introduction

The third JASMIN user Conference on Advanced Computing for Environmental Science was held on 27th June 2018 at Milton Hill House, with additional training workshop sessions on the following day at JASMIN's host institution, the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) on 28th June 2018, with attendees from universities and research institutions across the UK and further afield.

Selected conference presentations are available to download or watch in video form from the links within the programme below.

Global gathering of data scientists at PV2018 - view their presentations now!

Thu, 31 May 2018 08:37:27 +0000

PV2018 took place at CEDA’s home site in Harwell, Oxfordshire on 15-17th May. The conference focussed on addressing the opportunities in understanding vast datasets and assessing ways to take that new information and make it useable to the widest variety of disciplines for societal benefit and commercial growth.

New CEDA Privacy and Cookie Notice and Archive Terms and Conditions

Thu, 24 May 2018 15:26:02 +0000

A new CEDA Privacy and Cookie Notice, which users can view here , has been released. This aims to give greater clarity on how CEDA holds and makes use of user information.

CEDA Data Catalogue - new, improved search functions!

Thu, 03 May 2018 11:25:43 +0000

Finding the right data for your research can often be a daunting task… especially when faced with a vast archive of over 5000 datasets with 180 million files to choose from, such as in the CEDA archive! However, CEDA are pleased to announce a major step towards helping resolve this conundrum; bringing the power of industry search tools and direct metadata harvesting at scale to solve these problems.

Getting started with JASMIN - watch the webinar now!

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:44:13 +0000

On 21st March, we ran our first ever webinar called ‘Getting started with JASMIN’. The aim of the webinar was to provide a basic overview for new users wanting to learn about what JASMIN is, and how to get access. Over 80 people registered, from a range of institutes and scientific disciplines. The webinar was recorded and is freely available to view here . We plan to run future webinars approximately every 3 months.

CEDA WPS Service presently down

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 12:59:00 +0000

The CEDA Web Processing Service (WPS) is presently encountering issues following migration of relates storage areas supporting this service. The systems admin team are presently investigating this issue and we hope that normal service will resume soon.

CEDA archive and websites unavailable on 14th March due to JASMIN upgrade

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 09:57:12 +0000

As you may be aware, JASMIN is undergoing a massive upgrade (more info here) to double its storage capability to 44PB. This means that there will be some disruption to services on 14th March between 07:00 - 19:00.

Upgrade to UK environmental science supercomputer will make it twice as capable

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:32:27 +0000

A major upgrade is being made to double the storage available on JASMIN; a globally unique data intensive supercomputer for environmental science. The upgraded system will support the global analysis of the next generation of climate models and provide a venue for UK academia and industry to exploit Earth observation data.

Celebrating International Women’s Day at CEDA

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 09:43:59 +0000

Today is International Women’s Day and we’d like to celebrate our diverse team within CEDA. At present, we have 12 female colleagues who make up approximately 40% of the team. Our roles range from User Support on the helpdesk, to Data Scientists, to Head of CEDA; all falling within Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) areas. Historically, there are inequalities in gender within these areas and we are continually working to improve the balance.

JASMIN upgrade reminders and further information

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:54:48 +0000

JASMIN Unavailability Wednesday 14th March (see previous email)
Changes to Group Workspace Storage (see previous email)
Changes to /work/scratch storage.
Draining of LOTUS jobs starts TODAY 7th March.
General “at risk” during phase4 installation work.

For Items 1 & 2, please refer to our earlier announcement of 23/02/2018 or visit http://www.jasmin.ac.uk/phase4 for details.

Getting started with JASMIN webinar

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar focussed on how new users can ‘get started’ on JASMIN, a globally unique data intensive supercomputer for environmental science.

Covering the following topics:

JASMIN UPGRADE 1) Unavailability 14th March 2) GWS changes

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:01:17 +0000

JASMIN Unavailable Wednesday 14th March
Changes to Group Workspace storage

There will be a major upgrade of JASMIN over the next few months , more than doubling the available storage and adding significantly more compute. The upgrade will involve a rolling programme of data migration that will affect everyone.

ESGF award for CEDA staff providing data access for the climate modelling community

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:20:00 +0000

The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is an open source international collaboration that provides a robust, distributed data and computation platform in support of the international climate modelling community. The federation enables access to Peta-scale scientific data for the purpose of supporting large collaborative projects such as CMIP6 - the 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. ESGF is used by scientists around the world to access data, such as CMIP, to study the changing climate. Data from ESGF are ultimately used by government bodies for policy making decisions both at the national and international level such as the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

UnEarthed a science showcase with ice beards, pledges and grains of rice

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:45:00 +0000

A stand at NERC’s public engagement event, called UnEarthed , was recently run by CEDA (Centre for Environmental Data Analysis*) staff. UnEarthed was a showcase of the diverse environmental science undertaken by NERC scientists, ranging from decaying Puffins, making clouds in a bottle, to virtual reality floods. The event was free to attend at Dynamic Earth, in Edinburgh, and nearly ~7000 people visited over 4 days.

Sentinel data in CEDA archive latest news

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 16:59:53 +0000

CEDA have filled the archive space allocated for the Sentinel mirror data archive.

The recent power outage has further delayed our efforts of moving older data to the Near Line Archive (NLA). This allows archive space to be allocated to new and gapfilling data.

NEW - CEDA Data Catalogue beta Search + archive-catalogue links

Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:59:43 +0000

Last week CEDA rolled out some new features to help CEDA archive users to find datasets in the CEDA archive and link back to additional information.

Advanced Warning CEDA and JASMIN service interruption for system update Tue 14th Nov 7-9am

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:50:26 +0000

System updates will be applied to CEDA and JASMIN servers on Tuesday 14th November between 7-9 am as part of routine maintenance.

Reducing pest risk through collaboration; PRISE visit to RAL Space

Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:39:32 +0000

On Friday 29th September, the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) hosted key partners from the PRISE project; including a variety of organisations across the UK, Zambia, Kenya and Ghana as part of the UK Stakeholder workshop.

1) Storage update- GWS and Dataset access 2) ET interruption 17 Oct now postponed

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:45:02 +0000

A further update on Tuesday’s storage issues:

Storage systems affected by the issues earlier this week have now been restored to their original management configuration so no longer need to be considered “at risk”. However there is still some high load in that part of the system which may still result in a slow response for the time being. Affected services/data/volumes are:

CEDA services unsupported over bank holiday weekend

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:20:48 +0000

CEDA services will be available but unsupported over the bank holiday weekend - this also includes Tuesday 29th August. This includes services such as the CEDA archive, JASMIN and helpdesk; so any issues will not be resolved until after the weekend.

Disruption to CEDA search services on 15th/16th August

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:13:30 +0000

On Monday 14th August we began a software upgrade to services underpinning CEDA’s geo-search services that has proved to be more complicated than anticipated. As a result, we will need to continue working on the services both today and tomorrow (15th-16th August). The work impacts the following services:

Brief downtime for CEDA data browser between 4-5pm on 27th July

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:58:58 +0000

Access to the data browser at http://data.ceda.ac.uk will be briefly down between 4pm and 5pm on Thursday 27th July to apply a software update to the service.

Sentinel data weighs in at a 'horn'-ormous 2PB

Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:56:55 +0000

The CEDA archive now contains more than 2 Petabytes of Sentinel data comprised of a whopping ~1.6 million individual Sentinel data products. If 2PB’s were represented by weight (when 1gram = 1GB), the archived Sentinel data would ‘weigh’ the equivalent of a Rhino - absolutely ‘horn’-ormous! In contrast, your average smartphone data capacity would weigh the equivalent of a mouse. See infographic below for more details.

JASMIN and CEDA services upgrade update most now back online

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:56:28 +0000

Following a successful maintenance intervention to enable integration of new storage, most JASMIN and CEDA services are back online, with most login and transfer (xfer) nodes available again.

Reminder CEDA and JASMIN storage downtime 12-13 July | No new job submission at present

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:41:27 +0000

AllJASMIN and CEDA users are reminded of the scheduled down time period 12-13th July to allow for essential storage infrastructure upgrades to take place.

Update to JASMIN Analysis Platform software across LOTUS hosts

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:01:41 +0000

Please be aware that on Monday 17th July the JASMIN Analysis Platform (JAP) software stack will be updated to the latest version across LOTUS compute hosts.

New Map Application launched ! CEDA Satellite Data Finder

Tue, 04 Jul 2017 11:50:58 +0000

We are very pleased to announce a new map-application for locating scenes and scans from a range of Earth Observation data sets held in the CEDA archive. The CEDA Satellite Data Finder provides spatial, temporal and satellite filters for data from the following satellite missions:

JASMIN Conference 2017

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Conference Programme

Introduction

The second JASMIN Conference on Advanced Computing for Environmental Science was held at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) on 27th and 28th June 2017, with attendees from universities and research institutions across the UK and further afield.

Selected conference presentations are available to download or watch in video form from the links within the programme below.

CEDA ESGF nodes back in service

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:08:52 +0000

The ESGF nodes at CEDA (search and download services) are now back in
operation.

We are using a memory setting which allows the existing Java version to be
used with the recently upgraded Linux kernel. This works, but we have not
evaluated any performance impacts. Please contact the CEDA helpdesk in the
event of any problems.

EUFAR Flight Finder & Sentinel OpenSearch back in service

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:38:27 +0000

We are pleased to report that the issue affecting the EUFAR Flight Finder & Sentinel OpenSearch service has been resolved and the services are now running again. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by the downtime.

Temporary disruption to ESGF, EUFAR Flight Finder and Sentinel OpenSearch services

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 08:38:10 +0000

Due to a software problem, there has been some disruption to a number of CEDA services yesterday (Thursday 22nd June).

New dataset ESA Sentinel 3A SLSTR data

Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:51:19 +0000

CEDA are pleased to announce that Sentinel 3A SLSTR data are now available in our archive.

Following the launch of Sentinel 3A in February 2016, as part of the European Commission’s Copernicus programme for monitoring the Earth from Space, CEDA have been obtaining these data to support research and applications within the UK’s Earth Observation communities.

CEDA CMIP5 data holdings now catalogued and searchable!

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:44:43 +0000

CEDA is pleased to annouce all CMIP5 data holdings in the CEDA archives are now covered by significantly improved data catalogue coverage, bringing greater discoverability and accessibility to our users.

CEDA Data Catalogue updated!

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:46:30 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalogue was updated lastnight to version 1.1.3.

The latest version includes:

Links to download stats for each dataset record.
HTML rendering in “Latest news” items at top of dataset record page.
Updated data download links to CEDA’s new Web Download Service .
Updated listing of datasets with licences permitting commercial use .

We hope these minor tweaks to the service will continue to enhance the usability of the catalogue for both data users and data providers.

Happy Birthday JASMIN!

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:16:24 +0000

Five years ago today, an initial 4.5 petabytes of high-performance storage was brought online, signalling the ‘birth’ of JASMIN and revolutionising access to environmental science data for NERC. JASMIN is half super-computer and half data-centre and provides a globally unique platform at STFC, hosted for computing and storing UK and European environmental science data.

New CEDA download service successfully launched

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 09:40:50 +0000

Yesterday CEDA rolled out a new, improved web download service, paving the way for improved usability of the CEDA Archive: available now at:

CRU TS 3.24.01 now available

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:31:44 +0000

CRU TS 3.24.01 has been released and is available for download ( http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3df7562727314bab963282e6a0284f24) . These data replace and supersede the withdrawn CRU TS 3.24.

CEDA WPS unavailable today from 11am

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:58:09 +0000

The CEDA Web Processing Service (CEDA WPS) will be off-line from 11am today to allow for important software updates to be installed.

NEW - JASMIN Accounts Portal launched!

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:05:40 +0000

We are pleased to announce the successful rollout of the new JASMIN Accounts Portal this morning. The new portal should be accessible at https://accounts.jasmin.ac.uk .

New JASMIN accounts portal planned for 8 Feb 2017

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:58:26 +0000

New JASMIN Accounts Portal: 8th February 2017

CEDA has been developing a new portal for JASMIN/CEMS users to manage their accounts. This will bring greater clarity for current JASMIN/CEMS users and introduce new functionality for the management of Group Workspaces, Projects VMs and JASMIN Cloud tenancies.

CRU TS 3.24 WITHDRAWN

Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:56:33 +0000

The CRU TS 3.24 data has been withdrawn by the data provider due to known errors in the gridded output.

JASMIN OPNs service interruption Tuesday 10th Jan 0700-0900

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 13:39:35 +0000

The Joint Academic NETwork (JANET) will be undertaking router maintenance on Tuesday 10th January between 0700 and 0900.

During this time period a 15 minute outage will occur affecting the 3 JASMIN Optical Path Network connections with JASMIN :

Issues with CEDA Services this morning

Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:16:00 +0000

A number of CEDA services are presently being affected by an underlying issue with our login authentication service.

This issue is being worked on at present and we hope that full service will be resumed soon.

CEDA Data Catalogue service reboot 0830 Fri 4th Nov

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:25:20 +0000

The CEDA Data Catalogue service: catalogue.ceda.ac.uk will be temporarily unavailable whilst the underlying server is rebooted tomorrow morning to allow for additonal resources to be added.

CEDA Trajectory Service present state and retirement

Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:08:13 +0000

The CEDA trajectory service is presently off-line due to systemic issues with this unsupported service.

Following initial investigations into the cause of the problems and following an internal review, we have decided to fully decommission the trajectory service.

Tips to avoid problems accessing JASMIN/CEMS services

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:08:31 +0000

With JASMIN/CEMS system now past its third anniversary, users will now start to encounter default access periods for their accounts. Users will be sent reminder emails to renew their access to our systems, but the following article provides advice to help avoid any issues which may cause common problems accessing JASMIN/CEMS services :

CEDA OpenDAP service login problems

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:30:01 +0000

Users of the CEDA OpenDAP service (dap.ceda.ac.uk) are presently experiencing an issue whilst logging into their account to access resources on this service.

Network maintenance completed successfully!

Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:13:59 +0000

Maintaining, upgrading and continually preparing for the future developments of world class data analysis infrastructure for the environmental research community is an essential part of CEDA’s ongoing service. This week saw the successful completion of a major system upgrade by our dedicated systems team, paving the way for the future of CEDA’s JASMIN infrastrucutre.

CEDA helpdesk changes - new service and new docs site

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:55:51 +0000

CEDA will be moving over to a new helpdesk system from 1st October to further enhance support for CEDA archive and service users and to offer greater support to JASMIN users.

CEDA and JASMIN downtime Wednesday 5th October 2016

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:46:40 +0000

As previously announced, in order to upgrade network switch firmware within the JASMIN core network, a downtime is planned for the entire day of Wednesday 5th October 2016. This downtime will affect all JASMIN services, the LOTUS processing cluster and all CEDA services which rely on the JASMIN infrastructure, including ALL access to the CEDA archive.

JASMIN/CEMS bcopy service temporarily unavailable

Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:10:59 +0000

We are aware of a problem with the ‘bcopy’ service (used to copy data efficiently between disk areas within JASMIN/CEMS).

CEDA 2014-15 Annual Report Released

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 10:16:46 +0000

CEDA are proud to release our 2014-15 Annual Report covering the varied work undertaken by CEDA to support the work of the atmospheric, climate change, earth observation and near-Earth environment research communities.

High-flying Year in Industry Student Kate Winfield’s time with CEDA

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:19:06 +0000

Last July the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) welcomed Kate Winfield, who joined us for her Year In Industry as part of her BSc Geography degree at Coventry University. During this time she has experienced all aspects of life as an environmental data scientist and has had some high flying experiences too!

CEDA Data Commenting Tool Launch at RMetSoc 2016 Conference

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 14:14:05 +0000

CEDA will be formally launching a new community data comments tool at this year’s joint Royal Meteorological Society and NCAS conference as part of the CEDA data catalogue service.

UKSSDC website and services partially restored

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 08:18:16 +0000

Following the UKSSDC web site being hacked last week the website and services are being returned online gradually.

Apologies for the inconvenience this may cause as we work to return all functionality to the site as quickly as possible.

JASMIN Conference 2016

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for coming to the JASMIN user conference!

A big thank you to all who attended and contributed to our first JASMIN User Conference, held at RAL on 27/28 June 2016. Over two days, we shared information about the current scale and capabilities of JASMIN, heard about some of the data-intensive science going on right now, and learned about other environmental science challenges which could be helped by using JASMIN.

JASMIN virtual event 2020

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A virtual event was run at the end of September, as a replacement for the JASMIN conference that was due to take place earlier this year. The event took place on the mornings of Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th September.

The JASMIN team provided an update to users about key services and new developments which we have been working on over the last year. See draft timetable below for more information.

The event was recorded - the full videos are available on our YouTube channel. Cropped recordings of each individual talk are linked in the table below. All slides are available here and the unanswered questions from the Q&A session are here.

Transitioning to SLURM webinar

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

SLURM has become the officially supported batch scheduler on JASMIN from the end of June 2020. All batch jobs and workflows needed to be modified in order to use the batch scheduler SLURM and the CentOS7 LOTUS cluster. This webinar gave an overview of what this change means for users and provide an opportunity to answer any questions you may have. Here is the SLURM documentation.

CEDA staff data curation takes off (literally!)

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:25:59 +0000

Two CEDA staff joined the FAAM aircraft team on Wednesday 16th March 2016, as it took to the skies over East Anglia for the WINTEX campaign. Poppy Townsend and Kate Winfield were there as part of CEDA’s engagement with the research community: Poppy beginning a 3 month detachment with FAAM as part of her grad scheme at CEDA; and Kate to get first hand experience of data producers and the underlying science of our core community.

Poppy and Kate ready to board FAAM Aircraft

Change to ECMWF-ERA data usage licencing

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:57:46 +0000

ECMWF recently updated the licensing for its ERA products and in light of this CEDA have secured a new licence for all ERA products held in the CEDA archives.

CEDA site and services back up, but remain at risk

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:49:19 +0000

The earlier networking issues affecting CEDA websites and services have been resolved, but additional ongoing issues are still in progress.

Dr. Sarah Callaghan appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:28:13 +0000

Dr. Sarah Callaghan, CEDA Senior Researcher and Project Manager, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal and has recently appointed a new editorial board. To read Sarah’s CODATA (the Committee on Data for Science and Technology) News blog, please visit the webpage: http://codata.org/blog/2015/09/16/introducing-the-new-data-science-journal-editorial-board/

New dataset Met Office LIDARNET Ceilometers network cloud base and backscatter data

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:57:58 +0000

The Met Office have opened up their LIDARNET ceilometer data to allow the research community to access cloud height and backscatter data from a network of 47 lidars around the British Isles.

CEDA Web Processing Service (CEDA WPS) back up

Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:29:31 +0000

The CEDA Web Processing Service is now fully operational again.

Apologies for the interuption that this may have caused.

Regards,

Dataset Showcase CRU Climate Data

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 07:56:49 +0000

As part of CEDA’s data curation mission we undertake work, often unseen to our users, to ensure that datasets remain accessible, useful, understandable and discoverable.

CEDA ESGF nodes unavailable

Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:37:07 +0000

ESGF data and index nodes provided by CEDA are presently offline while we investigate a problem.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

BADC celebrates 20 years

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:50:58 +0000

The Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) celebrated 20 years of operation for the British Atmospheric Data Centre this week.

Access to the Met Office MASS archive on JASMIN goes live!

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:36:43 +0000

We are pleased to announce that you may now apply for access to the Met Office MASS data archive from the BADC/JASMIN compute facility.

New data catalogue now available

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:16:26 +0000

CEDA’s new data catalogue service was made public earlier today, delivering an improved and more sustainable interface for users to search, discover and access the content held in the BADC , NEODC and UKSSDC data archives.

New myCEDA service now live

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:41:03 +0000

Last week saw the roll out of the new myCEDA service - replacing the old myBADC and myNEODC services.

The new myCEDA service allows users to register, apply for access to restricted datasets and keep their CEDA account up to date.

Global Radiosonde data updates not available since August 2013 - alternative data source available

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:00:00 +0000

Due to issues acquiring the Met Office Global Radiosonde data from the Met Office archive, the Global Radiosonde archive at CEDA-BADC has not been updated since August 2013. Sadly, there has not been sufficient resources available to resolve this. We are however hoping that we might see some progress in due course.

Results of the CEMS/NCEO User Survey and New Earth Observation Datasets

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:08:13 +0000

The results from the 2014 CEMS and NCEO user survey on data requirements are out, and a number of new EO datasets are being added to the archive this summer!

CEDA OpenID for CEMS PyDap service affected

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:20:15 +0000

The CEDA open ID service has been restored for most CEDA supported services following a temporary issue that had arrisen in the last 24 hours.

Update JASMIN VM disruptions 22/07

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:33:13 +0000

Following a hardware failure on one of the pair of disk arrays which housing the JASMIN virtual machine (VM) images over the weekend, the SCD team supporting the JASMIN infrastructure have managed to recover most VM images from the array, with the result that most affected VMs are now back up and running.

Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation - fully citable dataset at BADC.

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:46:14 +0000

The first publicly available, fully citable atmospheric reanalysis for the planet Mars can now be downloaded from the BADC website!

JASMIN Launch Event 2014

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

(copy of STFC web note released at the JASMIN Launch event on Monday 2nd June 2014)

UK science community to benefit from major cloud computing and storage upgrade

STFC and NERC today (2 June 2014) celebrate the completion of a major upgrade to the JASMIN data analysis infrastructure that plays a key role in the assessment and evaluation of huge sets of environmental data produced by the UK scientific community.

CEDA ftp service upgraded

Wed, 02 Apr 2014 08:53:34 +0000

Following a number of networking changes and upgrades that came into effect earlier today, users of the CEDA FTP service to access CEDA archives should now experience improved performance.

News article on JASMIN Expansion Phases 2 and 3

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:36:17 +0000

Major expansion for the JASMIN super-data-cluster

After a successful first year of operations for JASMIN, which saw many exciting science collaborations taking advantage of the JASMIN petascale data processing and storage, the system began to operate near capacity. It was clear there was a pent up demand for a “big data analytic environment” in the environmental science community.

IDL and MIDL available on the JASMIN analysis servers

Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:04:41 +0000

We are pleased to announce that IDL and the Met Office IDL Library (MIDL) are now available on the JASMIN scientific analysis servers.

CHARMe Project News Datasets annotations a step closer!

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:17:37 +0000

Being able to “tag” datasets with useful annotations has been one of the deliverables of the EU funded Characterisation of metadata to enable high-quality climate applications and services - CHARMe project that CEDA is assisting with. The following tatement comes from Paul van der Linden, the CHARMe project communicator, highlighting the progress to deliver this exciting new feature for data centre users:

CEDA's Summer 2013 Student Placements Projects

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:15:34 +0000

During the summer this year CEDA welcomed 4 undergraduate students to take up summer studentships working alongside CEDA staff. During this time their work touched on data from three of the data centres operated by CEDA: the British Atmospheric Data Centre, NERC Earth Observation Data Centre and the UK Solar System Data Centre.

Report Highlights BADC’s Impact

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:00:00 +0000

Findings from a study into the impact of the BADC are released today by JISC, NERC and the study partners. Read the full annoucement below which highlights the study’s key findings demonstrating the BADC’s economic impact:

BADC Amateur Weather Data Survey

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:00:39 +0000

The British Atmospheric Data Centre are interested in how the amateur meteorology community collects and archives its weather data. To help us gain a better understanding of the amateur meteorological community and how it deals with the data it collects we would like to invite all amateur meteorologists to complete a short survey:

CMIP5 web-based processing tools launched under the CEDA WPS

Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:42:17 +0000

CEDA is pleased to announce the release of two new web-based processing tools under the CEDA Web Processing Service (WPS) .

Data with DOIs 1st CEDA data paper published!

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:29:00 +0000

CEDA users can now find out more about some of the data we hold with the recent publication of our 1st data paper in the Geoscience Data Journal . Papers in data journals are fully citable articles detailing the data as a valuable scientific resource in its own right – giving due academic credit to the data producers through a fully peer reviewed process. These papers include details about the dataset itself, how and why it was created and suggests further uses for the data.

Dedicated light path connects JASMIN-Core and JASMIN-North

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:08:01 +0000

Following the deployment of high-performance storage and virtualisation infrastructure at CEDA over the past year, the JASMIN analysis environment is now taking shape. In addition to the JASMIN Core deployment at CEDA (RAL), the wider JASMIN network consists of hardware at Reading, Bristol and Leeds Universities, linking key atmospheric research groups across the UK. A significant milestone was achieved recently with the connection of a dedicated 1Gb light path between the JASMIN Core and JASMIN North nodes.

CEDA 2012 Annual Report published

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:27:30 +0000

CEDA’s annual report for 2012, covering April 2011 to March 2012 has now been published and is available from the CEDA Document repository .

STFC Work Experience Scheme 2013

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:17:58 +0000

Each year the CEDA’s parent organisation, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, welcomes over 100 work experience students aged 14 -17 years of age. The work experience scheme is presently open for applications for the 2013 work experience programme, with placements available between April and August 2013. Interested students are invited to apply via the STFC website .

CEDA Summer placements 2012

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:26:53 +0000

Summer 2012 saw 5 undersgraduate students arrive from accross the UK to take part in a variety of projects with CEDA working on data cataloguing, digitisation and archiving work as well as developing programming skills and exploring CEDA’s new paralllel storage and processing system.

CEDA OpenID service operational again - login to WPS and BADC CMIP5 Gateway restored

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:41:10 +0000

The CEDA OpenID service is fully operational again.

Access to CEDA OpenID associated services (e.g. CEDA WPS facility and BADC ESG Gateway) has now been restored.

JASMIN Forum 2012

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

On 25 September 2012, NCAS hosted a research forum at Reading University to address the challenges of large scale data analysis in the numerical weather prediction, oceanographic and climate science community. The forum heard presentations about many NCAS activities including UPSCALE, CASCADE, HiGEM and WISER as well as presentations from the EO, atmospheric composition and oceanographic perspectives.

Global Marine Surface Observations now available from CEDA-BADC

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:40:31 +0000

The Met Office MIDAS dataset held at the BADC has been updated to now include global marine surface observation data (e.g. buoy and ship measurements).

CEDA data migrations - possible impacts

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:58:42 +0000

With the deployment of CEDA’s new storage architecture have been successfully completed at the start of the year CEDA is presently migrating its data holdings over from the present NAS systems to the new storage. While the majority of this process should not affect CEDA services and data access there is the possibility for disruption to some services from time to time.

BADC Trajectory Service available again

Fri, 11 May 2012 21:21:56 +0000

The BADC trajectory service is available again at http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/community/trajectory/

CEDA Dataset catalogue unavailable

Fri, 11 May 2012 19:20:14 +0000

The CEDA dataset catalogue and associated search engine are currently unavailable. We are working at restoring access to the catalogue as soon as possible.

ESA declares end of mission for Envisat

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:21:17 +0000

ESA have issued a news item indicating the end of mission for Envisat.

Full CEDA helpdesk service resumed

Tue, 08 May 2012 10:38:59 +0000

The site email server networking issue has been resolved and access the CEDA helpdesk email accountss have been restored.

We are presently working through the backlog of helpdesk enquiries and should have the backlog cleared later today.

CEDA at EGU 2012

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:28:27 +0000

A number of CEDA staff are presenting at this year’s European Geosciences UnionGeneral Assembly presenting on variousgeophysical data managemetn projects that we are engaged on. Presentations will be available in the CEDA Document Repository following EGU 2012.

Data from Envisat satellite

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:59:27 +0000

ESA have issued a news item indicating loss of communication with the Envisat Satellite. No further news has yet been made available.

BADC Trajectory Service now back online

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:08:04 +0000

The BADC trajectory service is now available at http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/community/trajectory/

BADC Trajectory Service not available

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:37:09 +0000

The BADC trajectory service is not currently available due to a technical problem. We are investigating the issue and hope to have access to the service restored shortly. Sorry for any inconvenience.

BADC/NEODC server back up - archive and services back online

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:16:53 +0000

Following the server issue of earlier, all BADC and NEODC datasets and associated services are now back online.

Apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused.

BADC/NEODC server down - archive and services affected

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:47:23 +0000

Following system disk problems, about 75% of the BADC and NEODC archive is unfortunately temporarily unavailable. This includes, among others, the following datasets and associated services:

CEDA News Feed now available

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:19:46 +0000

The Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) runs both the British Atmospheric and NERC Earth Observation data centres - the BADC and NEODC .

BADC news feed closed

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:19:16 +0000

The BADC news feed has now be replaced by the CEDA news feed.

BADC Trajectory Service not available

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

BADC Trajectory Service not available

CEDA WPS for MIDAS data extraction back online and fully operational

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

CEDA WPS for MIDAS data extraction back online and fully operational

CEDA WPS for MIDAS data extraction currently unavailable

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

SERVICE PROBLEM: WPS hardware failure

Please note that due to a hardware failure the WPS is currently unable to run offline jobs. Please refrain from submitting jobs until further notice.
We are looking at the problem and we will post a news item here and on the CEDA WPS interface as soon as it has been resolved.

Advance warning - BADC/NEODC Services at risk 14/2 and 18-19/2

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Maintenance work associated to the BADC and NEODC servers will be taking place on Tuesday 14th February - this will affect access to the Project Space area and to some BADC and NEODC datasets.

BADC Webserver - recovery (continued)

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The BADC team are continuing to restore services following an attack on our webserver. The NASA Ames file checker and BADC file name convention services are now back online. However, the following services are not currently operational:

BADC Webserver - recovery

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The BADC team are continuing to restore services following an attack on our webserver. However, the following services are not currently operational:

BADC Webserver - Static pages up

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Following the attack on the BADC webserver over the weekend the BADC team have built a new secure web-server and are presently resurrecting the BADC website and services. At present just the static BADC pages are available and work is underway to systematically release all other parts of the BADC services once their security has been assured.

BADC Webserver compromised

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:00:00 +0000

During the weekend the main webserver at the BADC was subjected to an attack from an external source and an intruder was able to gain access to the server. We have removed this server from operation while it is returned to a secure state and investigations to the extent of the hack are carried out.

Server problems - notice of affected datasets

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Following system disk problems, the following datasets are temporarily unavailable:

RAPID
Met Office metDB
Met Office land surface data (old dataset, now superseded by MIDAS dataset which is still available)

We are working at restoring access to the affected datasets as soon as possible.

Network and server problems - notice of affected datasets

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Following problems with network switch on site and system disk problems on one of data servers the following datasets are temporarily unavailable:

ECSN Data Management Workshop 2011 - October, Edinburgh

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The National Climate Information Centre (Met Office) are organising a data management workshop in October in Edinburgh. Details available at:

CEDA develops visualisation service for the International Space Innovation Centre.

Mon, 16 May 2011 11:00:25 +0000

Coinciding with the launch the International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell Oxford, STFC RAL’s Centre for Environmental Data Archival deployed a new data visualisation service for Earth Observation data.

BADC Spring Clean - disk maintenance advance warning

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Following installation of improved air conditioning units within our server room BADC servers will be routinely taken down for required maintenance to ensure optimum operation. This is required to address some outstanding, non-critical issues as well as some additional disk issues that have recently developed.

Disk maintenance - MetDB, LINK and Met Office Surface datasets affected

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Issues with the disks holding the MetDB, Link and Met Office Surface station data (MIDAS data are not affected) require that these disks are taken down for maintenance. These disks will be taken down this morning (Tuesday 29th March). At present we do not have a resolution time, but we will issue a fresh news item once these data are re-instated into the archive.

MIDAS data 2011 updates delayed

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000

The MIDAS data at the BADC is currently updated to December 2010. Unfortunately, we are experiencing difficulties extracting the 2011 data updates from the Met Office archive. In addition to this, we have learned that the order of elements in some of the MIDAS tables have been altered slightly which will result in a mismatch between the data files we currently hold and the future data updates.

AATSR Data access resumed

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Following repair work to the server holding the AATSR data at the NEODC the AATSR multimission data are once again available through the NEODC

Advance Warning - NEODC Services at risk

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:03:01 +0000

Advance Warning - BADC Services at risk 15/3 and 9-10/4

Maintenance work will be taking place on Tuesday 15th March and the weekend of 9th-10th April at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. During this time BADC and NEODC website and services will be at risk or unavailable.

Advance warning of site maintenance work - BADC services and website at risk

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

AATSR Data unavailable

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:00:36 +0000

Due to required maintenance on the server hosting the AATSR data held at the NEODC these data will be unavailable for the next few days. Once the repairs have been completed these data will be made available again and a news item will be posted.

NEODC Closure during Christmas and New Year 2010/11

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:47:54 +0000

The NEODC helpdesk will be unavailable from Friday 24th December 2010 to Tuesday 4th January 2011. All queries received in this period will be answered as soon as possible on our return.

BADC closure between 24th December 2010 and 4th January 2011

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:00:00 +0000

The BADC helpdesk will be unavailable from Friday 24th December 2010 to 4th January 2011. All queries received in this period will be answered as soon as possible on our return.

Public Christmas Lecture The Eyjafjallajokull eruption the science behind the disruption by Pro

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Stephen Mobbs is a Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics, and the Director of NERC’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science. He is a physicist by training and took a leadership role in NERC’s airborne observations of the ash cloud over the UK during the Eyjafjallajokull eruption. Prof. Mobbs serves on scientific and operational advisory groups set up by the UK government to deal with the Eyjafjallajokull and future environmental emergencies.

Advance Warning - NEODC Services Down this weekend

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:50:47 +0000

NEODC services will be down this coming weekend (evening of Friday 12th to Sunday 14th) and should be considered at risk at the end of this period while essential upgrades to the electricity supply at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory take place.

2010 User survey launched

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:50:51 +0000

The British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) and NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) are participating in a study commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC to explore the long-term use and benefits of Research Data Centres. The study will be featuring the activities of a small number of well-established UK Data Centres, including BADC/NEODC, and aims to document the benefits and impacts that effective curation and sharing of research data can deliver to the scientific community and other users. The study is being performed by Technopolis Ltd.

BADC Website and Services back in operational mode

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Some of the BADC servers unexpectedly went down yesterday, Wednesday 19th of October, early evening, resulting in the BADC Website and associated Services becoming unaccessible. The problem was however resolved early this morning and the BADC Website and BADC Services are now running as expected.

NERC Environmental Data Centres do they meet your needs?

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:00:00 +0000

The Earth is relentlessly changing. Tracing and understanding past environmental change plays an important role in the prediction of future environmental change. The data held by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) consists of historical records accumulated over decades that provide a valuable resource to support research, survey and monitoring activities and for users in academia, government, the public sector, industry and commerce. The NERC data centres ( www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/ ) are responsible for the long-term management of data and provide access to NERC’s data holdings. They also provide support and guidance in data management to NERC funded researchers.

Access to BADC Services at risk this weekend 9th/10th October

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:00:00 +0000

On the weekend of 9th/10th October, there will be some electrical power maintenance work on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site, where the BADC is based. It is possible that the BADC electrical power feeds and hence services may be at risk this weekend.

FTP Service now stable

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Following the recent problems experienced by BADC users with our FTP server, the BADC Infrastructure Team has now successfully stabilized the service.

FTP problems at BADC

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:00:00 +0000

We are currently encountering problems with our FTP server. The FTP service is reponding interminently, more often than not resulting in timing out sessions.

BADC Website and Services back to normal

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Technical problems which affected FTP login to the BADC/NEODC archive and access to the Data Extractor Service have now been resolved.

FTP login and Access to Data Extractor Service currently at risk

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Technical problems with one of our servers is affecting FTP login to the BADC/NEODC archive and access to the Data Extractor Service.

Numerical Model Data Scientist Vacancy

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0000

The Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) at STFC Rutherford Appleford Laboratory is seeking a Numerical Model Data Scientist. Further details available at:

BADC Webserver and website down this afternoon

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Following a hardware failure on Sunday our web server will be down for a few hours this afternoon to allow essential hardware to be replaced and services migrated back over to our web server. We anticipate that disruption will be kept to a minimum and will post a news item once services have been restored.

BADC Trajectory Service re-instated

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC Trajectory Service has been re-instated following correction of an issue with the log in scripts.

We apologies for the inconvenience the temporary removal of this service may have caused.

BADC Trajectory Service temporarily not available

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

We regret that the BADC Trajectory Service is not currently available. We are investigating the issue in the hope to have the BADC trajectory service fixed shortly.

BADC Trajectory Service back online

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC Trajectory Service is now fully operational again at: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/community/trajectory/

The Met Office wind-profiler dataset updated with records for 2005-2009

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

The Met Office wind-profiler dataset at BADC has now been updated with records for 2005-2009.

See http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_ukmowindpr for details and links to the archive.

BADC Trajectory Service temporarily unavailable

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

We regret that the BADC Trajectory Service is not currently available. While trajectory runs can apparently be successfully submitted, they don’t actually run. We are investigating the issue in the hope to have the BADC trajectory service fixed shortly.

Access to My requested data area restored and Data Extractor service fully operational again

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Following problems with one of our servers, “My requested data” directory which can be accessed via My BADC webpage, is available again and access to the Data Extractor service has been restored.

My requested data area and Data Extractor service not available

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Due to problems with one of our servers, “My requested data” directory which can usually be accessed via My BADC webpage, is currently not available. This is unfortunately also affecting the Data Extractor Service.

Site Proxy server problem fixed - Access to restricted data restored

Wed, 19 May 2010 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC has been informed that the problem with the RAL site proxy server is now resolved. This means that access to the BADC archive and associated services (e.g. My requested data area) is now fully restored.

New HIRDLS level 2 Version 5.00 data now at BADC

Thu, 13 May 2010 05:00:00 +0000

A new version of the HIRDLS level 2 data - version 5.00 - has been released and is now available at the BADC. 1000+ days of data are available for 2005-2007. Data quality documents are also included.

BADC and NEODC supports the investigations into the Icelandic Volcano

Thu, 06 May 2010 19:47:13 +0000

In response to the volcanic ash plume that entered British airspace from the 14th April, scientists from NERCâs National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) and the European airborne research community (EUFAR) have carried out numerous observations from a variety of research aircraft and ground- based instruments. The BADC has supported these efforts by rapidly responding to the needs of the Atmospheric research community.

Conference Exploiting Geoscience Collections, 12-13 May 2008

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:06:09 +0000

Geoscience collections (records, samples and digital data) are a key resource for research of all types. The compilation, management and exploitation of these resources are fundamental to a wide range of research activities. The conference will bring together an international range of users and custodians of geoscience collections.

Two vacancies at NEODC/BADC

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:05:52 +0000

There are currently two vacancies at NEODC and BADC (NERC Earth Observation Data Centre and British Atmospheric Data Centre). We are recruiting a Data Scientist and a Storage Coordinator. Closing dates for applications are 26th Oct and 29th October respectively.

Planned Power Outage at the NEODC this Weekend

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:05:36 +0000

NEODC servers will be at risk this weekend due to an unavoidable power outage at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory this weekend.

NEODC services affected by network problems

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:05:28 +0000

Following the recent power outage, network services with RAL have been severely damaged and are not yet back to normal. Some NEODC services are still not available, and the rest must be considered at risk until further notice.

Planned Downtime this Weekend

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:02:12 +0000

Please note that due to unavoidable electrical work the NEODC system will be offline for several hours on Saturday morning 16th February 2008.

ESA-EUSC 2008 Image Information Mining pursuing automation of geospatial intelligence for environ

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:01:59 +0000

Event ESA-EUSC 2008: Image Information Mining: pursuing automation of geospatial intelligence for environment and security Place ESRIN, Frascati (Italy) Dates Conference: March 4-5, 2008; Panel: March 6, 2008

MERIS and (A)ATSR workshop

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:01:44 +0000

The European Space Agency is organising its second joint MERIS and (A)ATSR workshop, which will be hosted at ESA ESRIN in Frascati, Italy from 22 to 26 September 2008.

Temporary unavailability of some datasets

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:01:35 +0000

Some datasets (AVHRR-fasir, Landsat7, ncaveo-field, ncaveo-lcm2000, NEXTmap, Shac2000) are currently unavailable due to a hardware failure. We are working to have them available again shortly. Apologies for the interruption.

TopSat acquisition by Landmap

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:00:05 +0000

Landmap announces its agreement with Infoterra Ltd for the acquisition of TopSat imagery. The agreement stipulates the right of the UK academic community to order new images for any location around the globe.

Call for Learning Materials

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:59:43 +0000

As part of JISC’s new mandate to support the user community the Landmap Service has been tasked with acquiring new training materials to be added to the 10 module Image Processing course that they already offer.

NEODC Service Disruption 13-15 July

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:59:34 +0000

Due to essential maintenance work at RAL, disruption to NEODC services can be expected on from Friday 13th July (afternoon) to Sunday 15th July (evening)

NEODC user database interruption Monday 23rd April

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:58:42 +0000

The user database system for NEODC and BADC will be upgraded on Monday morning 23rd April. During this time users will be unable to register with NEODC/BADC, apply for datasets or update their details. Full service is expected to be resumed by lunchtime. We apologise in advance for the inconvenience.

ARSF AZ processing software new version available

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:58:29 +0000

The latest Versions of AZGCORR (v475) and AZEXHDF (v.315) are now available from the NEODC data browser .

ARSF Ethiopia Deployment Announcement of Opportunity

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:58:19 +0000

A deployment of the NERC Airborne Research and Survey Facility to Ethiopia is planned for January 2008. The deployment will be undertaken primarily in support of a NERC Consortium Grant, based in northern Ethiopia, but there is potential for support of other projects in Ethiopia generally. Closing data for applications: 2nd July 2007.

Conference Elevation Models for Geoscience

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:57:34 +0000

A one day conference “Elevation Models for Geoscience” will take place on Thursday 23rd March at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. The purpose of this public meeting is to examine the different types of elevation data available and to discuss their application within the Geosciences.

ESA data available through simplified Category-1 registration

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:57:25 +0000

Faster and simpler access to ESA EO data for research and applications development is now possible by Category-1 Fast registration, instead of a full Category-1 peer-reviewed proposal.

NEXTMap workshop Exploiting NEXTMap for NERC Science

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:57:13 +0000

Registration is now open for the NEXTMap workshop at BGS Keyworth on 21st September.

The aim is to disseminate the results of using NEXTMap data for NERC science projects and studentships. All NEXTMap users are encouraged to attend, registration forms must be returned by 2 September.

NEXTMap Britain full GB coverage now at NEODC

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:57:02 +0000

Data for the whole of Scotland have now been added to the NEXTMap Britain dataset available from NEODC.

The NEXTMap dataset, which is divided into OS grid 10 km x 10 km tiles, is available as 7 distinct products, varying in resolution from 5 to 50 metre cell size. For the recently added Scotland tiles however only diff, dsm, dtm and ori products are available (not dtm10, dtm50 or dtme).

(A)ATSR Common-Format Archive

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:56:51 +0000

A major project is underway at NEODC to create a common-format archive of products from the (A)ATSR series of instruments (i.e. ATSR-1, ATSR-2 and AATSR).

ATSR data now available

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:56:39 +0000

Data products from ATSR are now available from the NEODC archive.

ATSR-2 ungridded brightness temperature (UBT) products have been produced and archived at RAL and are now available via the NEODC to registered customers. Preview images and location maps can be viewed through the web site and data can be ordered on-line. ATSR-1 products are still under production and will be available soon.

NERC EO / RSPSOC Conference

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:56:28 +0000

The NERC Earth Observation Conference 2005 is a joint event with the RSPSoc Annual Conference with the theme of ‘Measuring, Mapping and Managing a Hazardous World’

NEXTMap Britain dataset now available!

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:56:16 +0000

The NEXTMap Britain dataset, a high-resolution digital terrain model of the UK, is now available from the NEODC.

The dataset was purchased by British Geological Survey on behalf of NERC, and is available for use by NERC staff and award holders (including NERC-funded researchers in universities). Further information about the dataset can be found here, including details of how to register to use the dataset. The dataset, which is divided into OS grid 10 km x 10 km tiles, is available as 7 distinct products, varying in resolution from 5 to 50 metre cell size.

2005 Spring School in Quantitative EO

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:55:55 +0000

**Oxford, UK

14th March - 24th March, 2004** The seventh Spring School, sponsored by NASA , the UK Natural Environment Research Council and Research Systems International , will be held in Oxford from 14 to 24 March 2005.

NEODC Services Operating Again

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:33:13 +0000

The NEODC services are now running after the network problems following work on the power at the laboratory at the weekend.

RSPSOC Annual Student Meeting 2009

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:33:00 +0000

The 2009 Annual Student Meeting of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society is taking place in the Lake District on 14-16 April.

NEODC Closure during Christmas and New Year 2008/09

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:32:32 +0000

The NEODC helpdesk will be unavailable from Wednesday 24th December 2008 to 4th January 2009.

All queries received in this period will be answered as soon as possible on our return on 5th January.

NCEO Launch Event

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:32:21 +0000

The NEODC joined other centres on the 5th March at the Royal Instition in London to mark the launch of NERC’s National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).

NEODC Website and services heavy network traffic expected.

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:31:00 +0000

Due to public interest in the launch of the UK Climate Projections service on 18th June heavy network load is expected on the RAL network and may lead to some delay on the NEODC website and services.

NEODC Website and services affected by scheduled network outage

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:30:48 +0000

On July 7th 2009 between 7-10am, the operating software on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site core routers will be upgraded. As a result, the NEODC site and services will be affected.

NERC ARSF Announcement of Opportunity

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:30:08 +0000

The Announcements of Opportunity for the NERC Airborne Research and Survey Facility ( ARSF ) for UK and Europe, and Greece and Eastern Mediterranean 2010 flying season have been issued. The Airborne Research & Survey Facility (ARSF) invites direct access applications for UK and European, and Greece and Eastern Mediterranean flying in the 2010 season. The Natural Environment Research Council will provide flying time and data processing for approved projects, at no cost to the applicant. Eligible persons wishing to use the Facility in the 2010 Season are invited to submit detailed proposals, including a supporting scientific case, by Friday 9 October 2009. Please note that only the latest application form and guidance notes should be used.

Site Router Upgrade - NEODC access down Tuesday 9th February 2010

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:01:31 +0000

Advance notice: NEODC unavailable 0800-0830 09/02/2010 due to site router upgrade.

On Tuesday 9th February the Site Access Router for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, where the NEODC is based, will be upgraded. It is anticipated that access will not be possible from 0800 to around 0830, but access should be considered at risk from 0700 to 1000.

Access to Met Office Radiosonde archives fully restored

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to inform BADC users that access to the the Met Office Radiosonde archives (global standard and UK high-resolution) is now fully restored.

AATSR-v2.0 data currently not available through FTP

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:43:29 +0000

The AATSR-v2.0 part of the AATSR_multimission archive is currently unavailable through FTP (but is accessible via the NEODC Browse archive facility). We are working at restoring full FTP access to the archive as soon as possible. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause in the meantime.

Met Office Radiosonde archives currently unavailable

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Due to a technical issue, the Met Office Global Radiosonde and the Met Office UK High-resolution radiosonde datasets are currently unavailable.

NEODC Closure during Christmas and New Year 2009/10

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:47:51 +0000

The NEODC helpdesk will be unavailable from Thursday 24th December 2009 to 4th January 2010. All queries received in this period will be answered as soon as possible on our return.

Advance notice - no site access between 0800-0830 on 09/02/2010

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000

On Tuesaday 9th February the Site Access Router for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, where the BADC is based, will be upgraded. It is anticipated that access will not be possible from 0800 to around 0830, but access should be considered at risk from 0700 to 1000.

2010 User Survey Now Closed

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000

The 2010 User Survey of the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) and NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) as part of a study commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC to explore the long-term use and benefits of Research Data Centres is now closed.

2010 User Survey Launched

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Christmas and New Year Helpdesk Closure

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000

The BADC helpdesk will be unavailable from Thursday 24th December 2009 to 4th January 2010. All queries received in this period will be answered as soon as possible on our return.

Site phone line issues - BADC helpdesk number unavailable

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000

A problem has occured with the site phone system that affects the BADC helpdesk number. Please contact the BADC on badc@rl.ac.uk for helpdesk assistance.

Access to My requested data directory and Data Extractor service restored

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Following problems with one of our servers, “My requested data” directory which can be accessed via My BADC webpage, is available again and access to the Data Extractor service has been restored.

My requested data directory and Data Extractor service not available

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000

BADC Trajectory Service back online

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000

The BADC Trajectory Service is now fully operational again at: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/community/trajectory/

BADC Trajectory Service temporarily unavailable

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000

We regret that the BADC Trajectory Service is not currently available due to a technical problem.

We hope to have it fixed shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience this may cause in the meantime.

BADC Service at risk due to network upgrade

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

On Tuesday 1st December, a 10G Ethernet connection will be introduced into our servers room network, between 8:00 and 8:30am. We are told that the introduction should be fairly transparent and that users may not notice the short disruption in general. Our webserver is likely to be the most affected of our machines and so you may encounter temporary problems while browsing through our website.

BADC Disk Failure - Datasets now back online

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Following the unexpected disk failure on 12th November, access to all affected datasets has now been restored:

CLOUDMAP

BADC Disk Failure - Update

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Following the unexpected disk failure on 12th November, access to the following datasets is still affected:

CLOUDMAP

BADC Disk Failure Some dataset access affected

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Due to another unexpected disk failure, access to the following datasets is currently affected:

cloudmap

BADC Disk Failure Datasets now back online

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Following an unexpected disk failure yesterday, access to the following datasets has now been restored:

APPRAISE

BADC Disk Failure some datasets affected

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Due to an unexpected disk failure access to the following datasets is currently affected:

APPRAISE

MetOp data available from NEODC

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:26:11 +0000

Data from three instruments on board the EUMETSAT Polar System, EPS-MetOp, satellite are now available to registered NEODC users.

The NEODC archive holds IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) Level 1c and Level 2 data, GOME-2 (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment) Level 1b data and AVHRR/3 (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) Level 1b data.

Seminars and Conferences list updated

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Updated lists of national and international conferences, meetings and workshops can be found at:

http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/community/conferences/

BADC disk failure Datasets now back online

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Following an unexpected disk failure a couple of weeks ago, access to the following datasets has now been restored:

FAAM - EAQUATE

BADC Disk Failure some datasets affected

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Due to an unexpected disk failure access to the following datasets is currently affected:

FAAM - EAQUATE

BADC File Uploader out of service

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC File Uploader Service (web and ftp upload) is currently not working. We are investigating the problem and are not expecting the service to be back in full operations before Monday 20th July.

BADC Website and services Network power outage

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0000

On July 7th 2009 between 7-10am, the operating software on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site core routers will be upgraded. As a result, the BADC site and services will be affected.

BADC Website and services heavy network traffic expected

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Due to public interest in the launch of the UK Climate Projections service on 18th June heavy network load is expected on the RAL network and may lead to some delay on the BADC website and services.

BADC Website and services affected by network delays

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The network through which the BADC site and services are served is currently experiencing issues which is causing pages and services on the BADC site to time out.

BADC Website and services back to normal

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The networking issues affecting the BADC site and services have been resolved and all services are back to normal

Many apologies for the inconvenience caused by the earlier disruptions.

BADC Website and services now restored

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Apologies for the inconvenience caused by the electrical fault and resulting network problems today.

The BADC services are now restored. If you find you have any problems please let us know.

Electrical Fault BADC Website and services affected

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Following an electrical fault at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at 5am this morning the BADC webserver and services remain vulnerable while engineers work to address the problem.

BADC Website down from 1130 this morning

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0000

The BADC webserver and some mailing lists will be down from 11:30 this morning for up to 3 hours for unavoidable maintenance. Apologies for the inconvenience and the late notice.

Data Extractor Available Again

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0000

The Data Extractor service is up and running again after some problems last week.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

BADC Helpdesk 12th January 2009

Data Extractor Service Unavailable

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0000

The Data Extractor service is temporarily unavailable. We are currently investigating the problem and hope to return the service to being operational as soon as possible.

HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset released

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0000

The Met Office Hadley Centre Regional Model Perturbed Physics Ensemble simulations for the 21st Century for the UK domain (HadRM3-PPE-UK) are now available from the BADC.

BADC Closure during Christmas and New Year 2008/09

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0000

The BADC helpdesk will be unavailable from Wednesday 24th December 2008 to 4th January 2009. All queries received in this period will be answered as soon as possible on our return.

BADC Services Operating Again

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 +0000

The BADC services are now running after the network problems following the work at the weekend.

The data extractor is still running at risk, please bear with us while we work on the problems this service is having. It is being monitored regularly and we will endeavour to keep you updated on the progress of this service.

Planned Power Outage at the BADC this Weekend

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:00 +0000

BADC servers will be at risk this weekend due to an unavoidable power outage at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory this weekend. A temporary power supply will be used to cover the BADC servers but services will be at risk between 23:30 GMT Friday 7th November to 18:00 GMT Sunday 9th November.

New Service available - CEDA Repository

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new CEDA Repository.

The CEDA* Repository is now available for storage of your documents, images, conference papers, theses, talks, videos, etc. The repository has been developed to aid preservation and accessibility of documents and other digital items associated with Earth observation and the atmospheric sciences, which may otherwise be inaccessible to the general public.

BADC Data Extractor currently out of service

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC Data Extractor Service is currently down. We are investigating the problems and are working on restoring the service as soon as possible. If you have an urgent extraction requirement please contact the BADC helpdesk for assistance and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Job Opportunities at the BADC

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Two posts are currently being advertised:

SPBU083 Data Scientist (RAL Band 5): Closing date 26 Oct 2008
SPBU084 Storage Coordinator (RAL Band 6/5): Closing date 29 Oct 2008

Full details are available here

BADC Data Extractor Service temporarily out of service

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC Data Extractor Service is temporarily down. We are currently investigating the problem and are working at restoring the service as soon as possible. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause in the meantime.

New HIRDLS level 2 version 4.00 data release publicly available

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000

The latest of level 2 data - version 4.00, (also known as v02-04-19), has now been released for public access and is available at BADC. This release adds three new data products (F11, F12 and aerosol extinction), and significantly enhances those previously available (T, O3, HNO3, Cloud tops). Each HIRDLS Level 2 data file contains one day’s worth of data.

BADC MIDAS Data Extractor Service fully operational again

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000

The problem of extracting MIDAS data for individual stations (by src_id) has now been fixed. The BADC Data Extractor service is now fully operational again.

Problem with the BADC MIDAS Data Extractor Service

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000

There is currently a problem with the BADC Data extractor Service in extracting MIDAS data for a specific station (by src_id). Extracting MIDAS data by geographical area (lat/long) or by county is not affected by this problem.

Met Office HadGEM1 Model Integrations now available from BADC

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000

The HadGEM1 model is the Met Office Hadley centre global environment model. This version of the model includes a detailed representation of the atmosphere, land surface, ocean, and cryosphere.

New NEODC SSE services launched

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:39:46 +0000

NEODC is pleased to announce the launch of three new web services using the ESA Service Support Environment (SSE). The services allow the user to search and manipulate data online.

CWVC datasets now all publicly available

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0000

The Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) Programme was a five-year NERC thematic research programme. Its overall aim was to improve our understanding of the physical processes responsible for the distribution of humidity and clouds and of their influences on climate.

BADC Data Extractor Service back in operational mode

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC Data Extractor Service is now fully operational.

Information about the Data Extractor Service is available at: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/help/software/dx/

BADC Data Extractor Service temporarily out of service

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Resumption of MIPAS Near Real Time data available through the NEODC

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:21:14 +0000

NEODC is pleased to announce the resumption of MIPAS NRT data into the NEODC archive. This follows an interuption in the supply as a result of instrument difficulties.

ACTIVE and CHABLIS data now publicly available at BADC

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Data from the NERC ACTIVE consortium project (Aerosol and Chemical Transport In tropical conVection) and data from the NERC-AFI CHABLIS campaign (Chemistry of the Antarctic Boundary Layer and the Interface with Snow) are now publicly available at BADC.

BADC service disruption due to site power glitch

Tue, 06 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000

On Tuesday 6th May, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site, where the BADC is located, experienced a major network outage. As a result of this, BADC and NEODC services were affected. The network outage was caused by a power glitch which took out a major networking wiring room and then had an avalanche effect across site.

Advanced Notice. Site Firewall Updated BADC Services Affected

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:00:00 +0000

The site firewall for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, behind which the BADC operates, will be updated Tuesday 18th March between 7.30 am and 8.00 am. There will be no external access to and from BADC during this period. Services will remain at risk for the remainder of the morning.

Planned Downtime this weekend. MIDAS data Updated. Paperless Forms System

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:00:00 +0000

Please note that due to unavoidable electrical work the BADC system will be offline for several hours on Saturday morning 16th February 2008. It is itended that the system will be up and running again by lunchtime.

BADC 2007 USER Survey Report

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:00:00 +0000

The BADC has compiled a report on the results from the 2007 BADC User Survey that is available to download by clicking here The BADC would like to thank all those who took part.

Loss of data on My Request Area

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:00:00 +0000

Following the failure of one of the BADC filestores BADC staff have unable to restore data held in the My Requests Area. However, a new My Requests Area has been set up and made available to users.

Filestore Failure Update

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:00:00 +0000

Following the failure of one of the BADC filestores BADC staff have been able to re-establish access to the 4 affected datasets and Project Spaces.

Filestore FailureData Extractor, My Requests area, Project Spaces and 4 datasets affected

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:00:00 +0000

Following the failure of one of the BADC filestores access to My Requests, Project Spaces, ECMWF trajectories, ISB52, NDSC and TOMS datasets is not possible at present.

Problems with ECMWF Operational Total Cloud Cover Data and BADC Helpdesk Christmas closure

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:00:00 +0000

The ECMWF has announced that due to some fields not initialising properly all analysis total cloud cover data within the ECMWF operational data are unreliable. Therefore, the BADC has removed such data from its ECWMF operational data archive and is writing to inform present users of the ECMWF operational data of this.

Congratulations to the winner of the BADC Competition

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:00:00 +0000

On 8th November the barmaid from The Plough at East Hendred drew the winner of the BADC competition.

BADC Survey and Competion now closed

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0000

The 2007 BADC survey and competition are now closed for entries.

Thank you to those of you who took the time to complete the survey. We are looking through the responses now and will post the results in due course. The competition winner will be notified within the next fortnight and the competition answer will be published shortly.

HadCM3-control data re-instated into archive.

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:00:00 +0000

HadCM3-control data have been successfully restored from backup and is fully accessible once more from the BADC.

Further news items regarding the server issues will be posted as progress is made.

BADC Server Issue - Number of datasets affected

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Following a technical issue with one of our servers the following datasets are not accessible at present:

caesar covex dabex fluxex iasi icepic land-emiss micromix nu-wave raptor rico t-rex visurb Meris l1b data

BADC Server Issue - Hadcm3-control and UM data affected

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Following a technical issue with one of our servers the entire HADCM3-control data and approximately 1/6th of the UM data are currently unavailable.

BADC FTP server Re-configuration - COMPLETED

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Re-configuration of the FTP server has completed successfully. We hope that the short outages did not cause any inconvenience. Please let us know if you encounter any problems.

GERB dataset is now complete at BADC.

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:00:00 +0000

The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instruments make accurate measurements of the Earth’s Radiation Budget. They have been specifically designed to be mounted on a geostationary satellite and are carried onboard the Meteosat Second Generation satellites operated by EUMETSAT. They are produced by a European consortium led by the UK together with Belgium, Italy, and EUMETSAT, with funding from national agencies.

BADC FTP server Re-configuration

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Tomorrow (3rd October 2007) the BADC ftp server is being re-configured. The changes should not take long but there could be some interruption to the service throughout the day. A further news item will be issued once the work is complete. Apologies for any inconvenience this essential work may cause.

National database of atmospheric and weather data tops 10,000 users

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:00:00 +0000


News Release - Monday 3rd September 2007
A scientist studying amphibians is the ten thousandth user to access a national database of weather and atmospheric measurements. Kerry Murton from Cardiff University’s Llysdinam Field Centre has been investigating the affect of climate change on the timing of events in the lifecycle of newts. Kerry is using data from the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

News Release - Monday 3rd September 2007

A scientist studying amphibians is the ten thousandth user to access a national database of weather and atmospheric measurements. Kerry Murton from Cardiff University’s Llysdinam Field Centre has been investigating the affect of climate change on the timing of events in the lifecycle of newts. Kerry is using data from the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.


Kerry Murton checking pitfall traps
Phenology is the timing of events in the life cycle, eg migration or breeding, and in the amphibian life cycle phenology it is largely driven by factors such as moisture and temperature. For her PhD Kerry is conducting a site-specific study at Llysdinam Pond on newt migration, courtship behaviour, egg laying and larval development. She is also contributing to a long term dataset on newt movements to and from the pond. Newt migrations at Llysdinam have been monitored since 1980 when the pond was encircled with a drift fence and pitfall traps enabling daily monitoring of the numbers of newts entering and exiting the pond.
A male smooth newt


Kerry will be accessing the BADC to get the UK’s Meteorological Office rainfall and temperature data for her local weather station which was established at Llysdinam, mid Wales, in 1988. The weather data will be matched to the records of newly metamorphosed juvenile newts, ’efts’ leaving the pond annually. One aim is to investigate how the number of ’efts’ leaving the pond over the past 26 years varies with recorded temperature and rainfall data to determine which conditions are more favourable to them. In addition, newt courtship surveys and egg laying data will be analysed against the weather data. Torchlight surveys for the newt courtship dance were carried out regularly each week and data on newt egg laying over the season were collected.

Kerry will be accessing the BADC to get the UK’s Meteorological Office rainfall and temperature data for her local weather station which was established at Llysdinam, mid Wales, in 1988. The weather data will be matched to the records of newly metamorphosed juvenile newts, ’efts’ leaving the pond annually. One aim is to investigate how the number of ’efts’ leaving the pond over the past 26 years varies with recorded temperature and rainfall data to determine which conditions are more favourable to them. In addition, newt courtship surveys and egg laying data will be analysed against the weather data. Torchlight surveys for the newt courtship dance were carried out regularly each week and data on newt egg laying over the season were collected.


	Previous research on adult newt migrations to the pond found a change in the timing of arrival over the years. Milder spring temperatures have resulted in first arrival dates being five weeks earlier than in the 1980s, with male palmate newts arriving increasingly earlier than the other groups. Kerry said, “In my research I aim to find out what the consequences of this earlier arrival are for courtship timing and egg laying and ultimately breeding success. The ability of animals and plants to adapt to climate change will have a large impact on the biodiversity of the UK”.

Previous research on adult newt migrations to the pond found a change in the timing of arrival over the years. Milder spring temperatures have resulted in first arrival dates being five weeks earlier than in the 1980s, with male palmate newts arriving increasingly earlier than the other groups. Kerry said, “In my research I aim to find out what the consequences of this earlier arrival are for courtship timing and egg laying and ultimately breeding success. The ability of animals and plants to adapt to climate change will have a large impact on the biodiversity of the UK”.



The number of adult newts breeding at the pond varies annually, with between 1500 and 3500 newts arriving at the pond each year. The project focuses on palmate newts Triturus helveticus and smooth newts T. vulgaris, although small populations of great crested newts T. cristatus, common toads Bufo bufo and common frogs Rana temporaria also breed at the pond. Although the smooth newt is more widely distributed in the UK, the smaller palmate newt is more common in Wales and makes up 75% of the population at Llysdinam pond.


The BADC, hosted by STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, is the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) designated data centre for atmospheric sciences, and is part of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. It holds many atmospheric datasets totalling more than a 100 Terabytes of data in over 80 million files, from a variety of sources, including satellites, balloons, aircraft, computer models of the atmosphere and ground-based instruments. The data are accessible free to non-commercial research projects through the BADC website.
Dr Sam Pepler, who manages the Data Centre at RAL says, “We have many users researching a diverse range of subjects including climate change and its impact on ecology and water resources, through to medical research and social issues, like housing. NERC values the data it produces and ensures that access is provided to as many different researchers as possible and that the data is kept for posterity.”
The role of the BADC is to assist UK atmospheric researchers to locate, access and interpret atmospheric data and to ensure the long-term integrity of atmospheric data produced by NERC projects.
The BADC is part of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). NCAS is a NERC established collaborative centre, which supports the national capability in atmospheric science research.


Further information from :
Dr Sam Pepler, BADC manager, RAL, Tel: 01235 44 6538
Miss Kerry Murton - Llysdinam Field Centre, (part of the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University)

Tel: + 44 (0)1597 860308 Website Mrs Natalie Bealing, STFC Press Officer, Tel: 01235 44 6482

BADC at the RMetS Main and Student Conferences, the 2007 BADC Users Survey and a Chance to win a PD

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC will be sending 7 members of its staff to the Royal Meteorological Society conferences held in Edinburgh from 1st to 6th September 2007. You will be able to find members of staff around the conferences as well as at the BADC trade stand. If you are attending please come along and have a chat with the BADC staff about the services we offer and the science we are involved in. The trade stand will have a number of demonstrations of the type of data sets and services we offer.

BADC RSS Newsfeed now available

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:00:00 +0000

The Latest BADC news is now available as a newsfeed.

Click the button to subscribe to the BADC news.

News Feed Disabled

BADC Helpdesk 28th August 2007

Incoming Email Problems

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:00:00 +0000

The RAL mailserver which deals with email sent to badc@rl.ac.uk has been experiencing problems since Friday (17th Aug). The problem is being worked on and the backlogged emails should be delivered to us once it is fixed.

BADC Presence at the RMetS and Student RMetS Conferences

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:00:00 +0000

In September the BADC will have a stand at both the Student and the Main Royal Meteorological Society conferences in Edinburgh.

Services at risk on Thursday 19 July

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Following service interruptions over the weekend one of our system disks is being upgraded and as a result the following datasets will be unavailable for approximately 24 hours: autex-wintex, chablis, eaquate, hadgem1-control, meris, neon, pose, sage2, ukmo-assim, ukmo-surface.

Electrical Shutdown - Sunday 15th July

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Due to an electricity supply shutdown at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on Sunday 15th July 2007, the BADC website and services will not be available for much of that day. We are taking the opportunity of this period of downtime to deal with planned disk upgrades. BADC services will be available again on Monday 16th July.

BADC Helpdesk Software Upgrade on Monday 25th June

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:00:00 +0000

On Monday 25th June the BADC will be upgrading the Helpdesk system software. The upgrade will take place in the afternoon and it is hoped to take less than an hour. A news item will be added when it is available again. Please refrain from emailing the badc at this time.

BADC Adds Citations to Dataset Webpages

Thu, 17 May 2007 05:00:00 +0000

We are beginning to add a citation to each dataset’s webpage. This should be completed for all BADC datasets within a couple of weeks. For example, see the ACSOE dataset citation.

Services at risk on Monday 23 April

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:00:00 +0000

We will be making updates to the BADC website on the morning of Monday 23 April. Certain services, such as user registration and dataset application will be unavailable for a while during this morning. In addition, other services are at risk during this time. We aim to minimise any disruption and hope to be fully functional again by lunchtime. We appologise for any inconvenience.

Data Extractor now supports Microsoft Internet Explorer

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:00:00 +0000

You can now use the data extractor if you are an Internet Explorer user. The data extractor can be used on several datasets, including MIDAS and some ECMWF data .

Planned Server Downtime on Monday 19th March 2007

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Work on the BADC servers is planned for Monday afternoon (19th March). Obviously we will keep the downtime to a minimum, hopefully for less than an hour. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience.

Data Extractor available for MIDAS Surface Data.

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:00:00 +0000

The data extractor is now available for extracting surface data from the MIDAS dataset for registered surface data users. Data can be extracted by station id, county or geographical area. Please read the website for more information on how to use it.

IPCC Data Distribution Centre managed by BADC

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:00:00 +0000

On February 1st the British Atmospheric Data Centre took over the hosting of the IPCC Data Distribution Centre Website . The DDC facilitates the timely distribution of a consistent set of up-to-date scenarios of changes in climate and related environmental and socio-economic factors for use in climate impacts assessments.

Planned Power Outage at the BADC this weekend

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:00:00 +0000

A power outage is planned at the BADC this Weekend (27th/28th January 2007), for unavoidable site power maintenance. Power will be off for a maximum of 5 hours on both Saturday and Sunday which will affect some BADC servers. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience.

New MIDAS Station search engine released at the BADC

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:00:00 +0000

The new MIDAS weather station search engine is available for use on the BADC website. Stations can be searched by name, location, postcode, county or source id and also through an interactive map to give details of data type and availability.

Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory Dataset

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:00:00 +0000

The Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory (WAO) is part of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). It is situated on the north Norfolk coast and is a world class facility for fundamental research, background atmospheric monitoring and teaching purposes. WAO operates a range of chemistry and meteorological instruments in its monitoring programme. Data from 2002 onwards is now available at the BADC.

Job Opportunities at the BADC

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:00:00 +0000

Job Opportunities at the BADC
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Two posts are currently being advertised, with application deadlines of 2nd January 2007. Please see [http://www.jobs.ac.uk](http://www.jobs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.cgi?keywords=clrc&bool=AND&referer=home).


BADC Support
11th December 2006

Please ensure your email address is correct

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Please check that your email address and other details are correct through your My BADC webpage and update as necessary.

GERB data is now available from the BADC.

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:00:00 +0000

GERB data is now available from the BADC.
=========================================
Data from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument is now 
available at the BADC.

The GERB instrument makes accurate measurements of the Earth Radiation Budget. 
It is specifically designed to be mounted on a geostationary satellite and is 
carried onboard the Meteosat Second Generation satellite operated by EUMETSAT. 
It has been produced by a European consortium led by the UK together with 
Belgium, Italy, and EUMETSAT, with funding from national agencies. The first 
GERB instrument, GERB-2, was onboard Meteosat Second Generation satellite, 
MSG-1, and began transmitting data on 12th December 2002. GERB-1 was launched 
onboard MSG-2 on 21st December 2005 and is now operational. 

The BADC GERB archive contains the latest version or "Edition" of data 
released for distribution by the GERB team. The initial data release contains 
a few weeks of Edition data from 25 March to 15 August 2006. Further data will 
be archived as it is reprocessed and becomes available. This data is available
to academic researchers. 

See the web page <http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/gerb/> for further details.

BADC Support
05th October 2006

ISAMS Level2 Dataset now publicly available

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:00:00 +0000

The ISAMS level 2 dataset is now publicly available, so no need to apply for access to use the data.

Ongoing server problems

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Ongoing Server Problems
=======================

Over recent weeks we have been suffering a series of server problems, many of which
are believed to be delayed consequences of a severe air conditioning failure in one 
of our machine rooms in July. We will continue to deal with problems as quickly as 
we can.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.


BADC Support
21st August

BADC FTP Server Problems Resolved

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Recent Server Problems at BADC Are Now Resolved
=====================================================

The BADC FTP server is now running again following a few intermittent problems since the end of July.
Apologies for the inconvenience.


BADC Support
10th August 2006

FTP server problems

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:00:00 +0000

Recent Server Problems at BADC Are Now Being Resolved
=====================================================

On Friday 21st July the BADC suffered a hardware failure which affected FTP services.
The hardware has been fixed and most related issues have been resolved, so service is
returning to normal.

There remains an issue with the incoming FTP directories, from which data was lost. If 
you submitted data which you fear was lost, please check the archive and contact BADC if
you find a problem. At the time of writing, access to the incoming directories has not
been fully restored, but this should follow soon.


BADC Support
25th July 2006

Latest Portable Unified Model Software from the BADC

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:00:00 +0000

The Met Office Portable Unified Model (PUM) software version 6.1 is now available from the BADC. Access must be granted separately for each version, so you should apply for access following the link on the dataset webpage, under ‘Restricted Source Code’. See http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/pum/ . The code itself is located in the software directory of the PUM dataset directory (/badc/ukmo-pum/software).

New surface data dataset available at the BADC

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:00:00 +0000

A new BADC dataset to replace the UKMO surface dataset, containing both UK and global measurements is now available for users registered to use the UKMO surface data. The data are stored in yearly files for extraction by data type. Data is available from 1853 to date.

Termination of Meteosat-7 0 deg longitude service

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:00:00 +0000

EUMETSAT has announced the termination of satellite image transmission from Meteosat 7 from 0o longitude as of 0900 UTC on 14th June 2006. This ends the provision of 0o longitude services from the first generation of Meteosat. An archive of past images is still publicly available at the BADC extending back to November 1999.

MSG Satellite Images now available at BADC

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:00:00 +0000

Images from the EUMETSAT Meteosat Second Generation (MSG1) satellite (renamed Meteosat 8) obtained from the Met Office are now archived at the BADC. These include:

Server Problems at the BADC

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:00:00 +0000

No more real time Earth Probe TOMS data

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:00:00 +0000

Additional forecast fields available in ERA-40 dataset

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:00:00 +0000

We have recently added some additional forecast fields available to the ERA-40 dataset held at the BADC. Due to user demand additional single/surface level forecasts have been extracted as follows in the ERA-40 archive:

Radiosonde and Surface data extractions from the Met Office temporarily stopped

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:00:00 +0000

Unfortunately, since mid-August 2005, our remote access to the Met Office network and archives has been disabled by the Met Office.

BADC at the RMetS Conference - (12 - 16 September 2005)

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:00:00 +0000

BADC staff will be presenting two workshops at the forthcoming Royal Met Soc conference in Exeter, UK. The workshops will include a 10min presentation by BADC staff members followed by discussions with the workshops attendees

New Met Office dataset available at BADC

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:00:00 +0000

The HadAT data are global radiosonde gridded temperature anomalies at standard 
levels in the troposphere and in the lower stratosphere from 1958 to present. 
This dataset supersedes the [HadRT](http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/hadrt/) dataset.
 All values are anomalies relative to the monthly 1966-95 climatology. 

This dataset is restricted to academic research use only.

More information about this dataset can be found at: <http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/hadat/>

BADC Support
7th September 2005

The Met Office Stratospheric Analyses are changing

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 05:00:00 +0000

Channel 4 news coverage about the CCLRC Chilbolton Observatory.

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:00:00 +0000

On Wednesday 10th August, there was a 6mn long news report about the CCLRC Chilbolton Observatory.

If you missed it, you can now view the footage here.

SAGE III version 3 data now available from BADC

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:00:00 +0000

The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) was successfully launched onboard a Meteor-3M spacecraft on December 10, 2001. The satellite is in a sun-synchronous orbit with an ascending node time of about 9 AM. Routine measurement operations began in March 2002.

Real-Time Earth Probe TOMS Data Return Next Week!

Fri, 13 May 2005 05:00:00 +0000

The satellite ephemeris problem has been solved and NASA is now evaluating the accuracy of the new files. You should begin to see TOMS data and images early next week (May 23, 2005). It should then take only a couple of days to fill in all of the data back to April 15, 2005.

SAGE II version 6.2 data now available from the BADC

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 06:00:00 +0000

Version 6.1 data are available from October 1984 through July 2000, in the form of index files and spec files, with software to assist processing in IDL.

Public release of NAMBLEX data.

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 +0000

The data collected during the North Atlantic Marine Boundary Layer EXperiment (NAMBLEX 2002) has now been released to the public domain. NAMBLEX, which took place during July-September 2002, was an atmospheric composition campaign to study the oxidation processes, atmospheric chemistry and composition of a number of species primarily in the marine boundary layer.

Improved Air Quality Forecasting project (ISB52) data now available at BADC

Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:00:00 +0000

Data from the Improved Air Quality Forecasting project (ISB52) funded by the UK HM Treasury Invest to Save Budget is now publicly available at the BADC.

Climateprediction.net first results published in Nature

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:00:00 +0000

Climateprediction.net Press release:

Bleak first results from the world’s largest climate change experiment

SOAPEX data now publicly available

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:00:00 +0000

The Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry Experiment 2 (SOAPEX) data is now publically available.

More information about the SOAPEX data held at the BADC can be found at: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/soapex/ .

High resolution radiosonde 2003 data available

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:00:00 +0000

High resolution radiosonde 2003 data avaliable
==============================================

The dataset now includes data from 2003. More information about the High Resolution 
data held at the BADC can be found at: <http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/rad-highres/>. 
For the current avalablity of data check [the status page](http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/rad-highres/status.html).

BADC Support
23th November 2004

Climate

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:00:00 +0000

On August 26th, the Climateprediction.net project will begin using the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) software platform, developed by scientists at the University of California in Berkeley.

Beta test our new Data Extractor web-interface

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 05:00:00 +0000

Beta test our new Data Extractor web-interface
==============================================

We are pleased to announce the launch of a test-version of the BADC Data Extractor (dx) 
- a web-interface to large datasets. You can access the Data Extractor if you are 
registered for any of the following datasets:

 ECMWF ERA-40
 ECMWF Operational data
 ECMWF ERA-15
 HiGEM
 COAPEC HadCM3 data

The Data Extractor exposes the following functionality to BADC users:

 Extraction of NetCDF datasets.
 Differencing between datasets.
 Browsing and selection of subsets.
 Selection in space and time.
 User-defined plotting.
 User-defined animation.

Please note that the current version (0.1b) is only a beta-release so we invite you to 
test the service and give us your feedback.

For more information on how to access the Data Extractor please see:

http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/help/software/dx

BADC Support 
9th August 2004.

UTLS Ozone Data Release

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 05:00:00 +0000

UTLS Ozone Data Release
=======================

Data from the following UTLS Ozone projects have been released to the public domain.

o	DCFZ (PI: Keith Browning)
o	THESEO (PI: Rod Jones)
o	ACTO (PI: Stuart Penkett)
o	EGRETT (PI: Jim Whiteway)

Datasets provided as a support to UTLS Ozone research have also become public.
They include

o	Meteorolgical Images (Provider: Jamie Kettleborough)
o	Ozone profiles (Provider: Geraint Vaughan)
o	SLIMCAT 1997 Reference Atmosphere (Provider: Martyn Chipperfield)

More information on these datasets can be found in the [List of UTLS Ozone Data Sets](/data/utls-ozone/data_sets.html).
The data are accessible from the [UTLS Ozone archive](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/utls/).
General information on UTLS Ozone data can be found on the [UTLS Ozone Welcome Page](/data/utls-ozone/) at BADC.

The BADC Support
9 July 2004

Unified Model RPMs available

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 05:00:00 +0000

RPMs for the Portable Unified Model are now available from the BADC.
====================================================================

To facillitate easy installation the Met Office Portable Unified Model (PUM) 
RPMs for the software have been created. More information about the RPMs can be found at:
[http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/pum/rpms.html](http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/pum/4.5/rpms.html)

More information about the PUM code held at the BADC can be found at:
<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/pum>

BADC Support
30th April 2004

Access to all BADC datasets restored

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to inform you that we have now solved the technical problem preventing access to some of the BADC datasets - all the BADC datasets are now available for download.

Temporary unavailability of some datasets

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 05:00:00 +0000

There is a problem curently affecting a storage disk. 

This unfortunately means that some of our datasets are currently not available for download.

The service will be restored as soon as possible.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause in the mean time.

BADC Support
27 April 2004

Download multiple files

Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:00:00 +0000

We have recently updated the interface to our data archive to simplify the
process of downloading multiple files via the web. You can now select multiple
files from multiple directories for downloading as a single gzipped tar file. 

For more details, go to the 'Get Data' page (http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/browse) and
click on 'How to use' in the Box labelled 'Download multiple files'.

BADC Support
18 March 2004

New ECMWF Seasonal Forecast (hindcast) Ensemble dataset

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:00:00 +0000

New ECMWF Seasonal Forecast (hindcast) Ensemble dataset
=======================================================

In support of the COAPEC Thematic Programme the BADC has extracted 
ECMWF Seasonal Forecast ensemble data. These data are also known 
as "Hindcasts" as they are forecasts run retrospectively.

The dataset includes monthly means, maxima, minima and standard 
deviations for the available surface variables for the period 
1987-2001 (with 2002 onwards currently being extracted). Atmospheric 
variables are only currently available as monthly means. 

There are 33 parameters held on surface or single levels including 
winds, temperatures, heat fluxes, radiation, precipitation and soil 
moisture. Geopotential, Temperature, Specific Humidity, Relative 
Vorticity and Divergence are available on pressure levels.

The data is held on a regular 1.875 x 1.875 degree grid in GRIB format.

For each month there are six forecast months archived, with 5 ensemble 
members for 10 months of the year, and 40 ensemble members in May and 
November of each year.

The data is now available to BADC users as part of the main ECMWF 
Operational archive with documentation located at:

 <http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/ecmwf-op/seasonal_fcs.html>

Further documentation on the seasonal forecasts is available at the 
following ECMWF links:

 <http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/seasonal/documentation>

 <http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/newsletters/pdf/98.pdf>


BADC Support.
12th March 2004.

Bolton Experiment data series now available from BADC

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:00:00 +0000

Bolton Experiment data now available at the BADC
================================================
The Bolton Experiment was a NERC project with matching funds from 
industry which took place between 1999 and 2002. 
The study tested the proposal that the difference in attenuation 
at two microwave frequencies along a given path can provide an 
accurate estimate of rainfall rate. 
The area selected for study was the town of Bolton in north-west
England. 

More information about the Bolton Experiment data held at the BADC 
can be found at: <http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/bolton/>
______________
BADC Support
17/02/2004

ERA-40 Live Access Server (LAS) Launched

Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:00:00 +0000

ERA-40 Live Access Server (LAS) Launched
========================================

The BADC is pleased to announce that we have launched the ERA-40 
Live Access Server (LAS). This service allows sub-sets, plots and 
animations to be created dynamically from the ERA-40 dataset. 

The BADC LAS provides a multi-functional web-interface to large 
geospatial datasets. It is particularly suited to global gridded 
data such as the ERA-40 Re-analyses. 

Users registered for the ERA-40 data held at the BADC can log in 
to the BADC LAS to extract subsets of the dataset. All level types 
and parameters are available and all data has been transformed to 
a 1° x 1° grid (this was the favoured resolution in a user 
questionnaire). The BADC LAS allows data sub-setting in latitude, 
longitude, altitude and time. The output can be obtained in a 
number of formats including gif and postscript image files, or 
NetCDF data files. A limited animation facility is also available. 

Please note the ERA-40 LAS is only available to users that are 
registered for access to ERA-40. Users must log-in to the usual 
BADC web site before entering the LAS, after which you can go 
directly to the LAS in any subsequent sessions. 

The LAS intended for users with low data volume requirements. If 
it receives large requests it will ignore them and inform you that 
it is doing so. Moderate to high data volume users should contact 
BADC Support (badc@rl.ac.uk). 

More information about the LAS is available on the ERA-40 Regular 
Gridded Data page:

<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/ecmwf-e40/gridded_data.html#badc_las>

BADC Support.
16 January 2004.

Met Office Wind Profiler data is now available from the BADC.

Wed, 07 Jan 2004 06:00:00 +0000

Met Office Wind Profiler data is now available from the BADC.
==============================================================================

In the late 1990's The Met Office purchased four boundary-layer wind-profilers 
(nominally 1 GHz), from Radian. The instruments are located at Camborne, 
Dunkeswell and Wattisham. The fourth was operated at the NERC MST Radar site at 
Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth between November 1999 and March 2002; it has now 
been relocated to South Uist. 

Data from these instruments is now available at the BADC for the following 
dates: Camborne from 1998 to 2002, Dunkeswell from 1999 to 2002, and Wattisham 
from 2001 to 2002. Data from the fourth wind-profiler when it was located at 
Aberystwyth is also available.

More information about the wind profiler data held at the BADC can be found at:
<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/ukmo-wind-prof/>

BADC Support
07th January 2004

Earth Probe TOMS went into safehold mode on 27th November 2003

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 06:00:00 +0000

The TOMS team expects to be back in nominal real-time operation next week (i.e. the week of December 1, 2003).

Met Office Stratospheric Analyses - New Dynamics

Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:00:00 +0000

Met Office Stratospheric Analyses - New Dynamics
------------------------------------------------

The assimilation system that produces the Met Office stratospheric data
will soon be changed to use the New Dynamics (ND) version of the
Unified Model.

The changeover is scheduled for 28th October 2003.

**Users of the data need to be aware of the following points:**

- The data will be ordered from South to North, instead of North to
South.

- As before, the wind components (u and v) will be produced on a grid
that is staggered relative to the mass grid (used for T and z). The
output fields use the "Arakawa B grid" staggering, as before, even
though the ND model uses a "C grid" staggering. 

- The vertical velocity will be w (dz/dt), rather than omega (dP/dt),
and will be output on the mass grid. 

- Three additional UARS levels will be output (25 instead of 22), up to
0.1 hPa (instead of 0.316 hPa).

If you use the grid definitions in the PP header record, the changes to
the ordering of the data will be transparent, otherwise you will need
modify your programs to allow for those changes.

Access routines are supplied by the Met Office to help users read the
data files. The original versions were written to access data from the
UARS CDHF, but recent versions also read PP format data, as supplied to
the BADC. A revised version of the access routines has been written
(version 5c - file name acsasm_v5c.f). This is very similar to the
previous version (5b), except that it will recognize the new w fields
(as well as omega), and the default settings for field types and number
of levels have been modified for New Dynamics. VAX/VMS-specific code
(only a few lines) has been deleted. 

At the BADC, the new data files can be found in the current year
assimilated data directory: /badc/ukmo-assim/data/standard/2003/

The associated documentation, as provided by the Met Office is 
available in the assimilated data doc directory: 
/badc/ukmo-assim/doc/ieee_binary/new_dynamics/

The Assimilated data documentation on the BADC Web pages will be updated
shortly.


BADC Support
28th October 2003

Berlin Stratospheric data series now available from BADC

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:00:00 +0000

The Berlin Stratospheric data series now available from BADC
============================================================

 The Berlin stratospheric data series contains temperature and geopotential height data 
 on the 100, 50, 30, 10 mb pressure surfaces produced at the Meteorological Institute, Free 
 University of Berlin, from radiosonde data and rocket observations. The data covers the 
 northern hemisphere during the years 1957 to 2001 and is available on both a 10° x 10° and 
 5° x 5° grid. 

 More information available at <http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/berlin_strat/>

 BADC Team
 23/10/2003

BADC Services unavailable 18-19th October 2003

Thu, 16 Oct 2003 05:00:00 +0000

Due to an electricity supply shutdown at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (18-19th October 2003), 
the BADC File server will be consequently temporarily shutdown **from Friday 17th October at 3pm 
to Sunday 19th October**. The BADC file server is expected to be back online from Monday 20th October.

This shutdown unfortunately implies that the BADC Web site and access to data 
and services will be temporarily unavailable.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.


BADC Support 
16/10/03.

New CDAT and GrADS web pages at BADC

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC help pages now includes a description and tutorial of 
two software packages used extensively in the atmospheric sciences:

* **CDAT** - see <http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/help/software/cdat/>
* **GrADS** - see <http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/help/software/grads/>

We have also made a GrADS/GRIB interface page which is relevant 
to all users of our datasets held in GRIB format. This is located at:

<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/help/software/grads/grads-grib.html>

Climate Data Analysis Tools (CDAT) is a freely available software 
infrastructure used for analysis, manipulation and plotting of 
atmospheric science (and other) data. It is designed for gridded 
datasets but can also cope with other types.

Below are some key features of CDAT:

* the software is open-source, consisting of a collection of Python modules.
* available for multiple platforms (but not Windows).
* a choice of interfaces: command-line, scripting or graphical user-interface (Visual CDAT (VCDAT)).
* an XML-based format and tools for aggregating large datasets.
* manipulation of large data arrays possible due to use of Python *Numeric* package.
* interfaces to external packages such as the Live Access Server (LAS) for web-based access to datasets.<
/LI>

Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is a freely available package used for analysis,
manipulation and plotting of earth science data. It is designed
for gridded datasets but can also cope with station data.

Below are some key features of GrADS:

* available for multiple platforms as an executable (including Windows).
* accessible by both a command-line and scripting interface.
* support for multiple common data formats.
* significant support for user-defined plotting.
* manipulation of large 4-D datasets.
* a rich set of built-in functions for data manipulation.

Ag Stephens, BADC, 11th September 2003

HALOE and SAGE observations confirm expected ozone layer recovery

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 05:00:00 +0000

NASA satellite observations have provided the first evidence the rate of ozone depletion in the Earth’s upper atmosphere is decreasing. This may indicate the first stage of ozone layer recovery.

ERA-40 dataset complete and monthly means available!

Thu, 03 Jul 2003 05:00:00 +0000

Update on BADC archive of ERA-40 data: 6-hourly data and monthly means
======================================================================

1. The 6-hourly ERA-40 Re-analysis Dataset - is now complete.
2. The monthly means for the ERA-40 Re-analysis Dataset - are now available (Includes a special note about INCORRECT FILES during the extraction period).

More details follow:

==========================================
1. The 6-hourly ERA-40 Re-analysis Dataset
==========================================

The 6-hourly data for the ERA-40 dataset is NOW COMPLETE in the main BADC archive from 1958-2001. Details about the type of data available can be found at:

<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/ecmwf-e40> and the links from that page. 

A parameters page provides a list of those available on each level type:

<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/ecmwf-e40/params.html>

=======================================================
2. The monthly means for the ERA-40 Re-analysis Dataset
=======================================================

Two types of monthly mean are now available for the ERA-40 dataset. These are the:

i. Monthly diurnal means (moda) - calculated from all time steps in a given month (i.e. one mean per month).
ii. Monthly synoptic (6-hourly) means (mm) - calculated from all values of a given time of day in a given month (i.e. 4 means exist per month, at 00, 06, 12 and 18UTC).

Details on these means are now available at:

<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/ecmwf-e40/means.html>

SPECIAL NOTE FOR USERS ACCESSING ERA-40 MEANS DURING THE EXTRACTION PERIOD:
===========================================================================
Please note that during the extraction period (January - May 2003) some of the monthly mean files were incorrect. The means were not clearly visible and had not been advertised at this period so I am not aware of anyone having used them. 

However, if you did locate the means and you have used those located under one of the following directories then please obtain the new means as directed in the link above. The directories where errors occurred were /badc/ecmwf-e40/data/diags, /disks/tornado4/e40_means/mm and /disks/tornado4/e40_moda/moda. All the erroneous means were deleted on 20th June 2003.

BADC Support 03/07/03.

Temporary Disruption to BADC services today

Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:00:00 +0000

Temporary Disruption to BADC services on Monday 30th June 2003
==============================================================

 The BADC file server, Tornado, has experienced a hardware fault earlier 
 this morning.
 The fault appears to have been cleared after reseating the controllers.
 
 An engineer is still expected later today and we may need to take the 
 machine down for him to investigate the fault.

 We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.

BADC Support 30/06/03.

Trajectory Web Service is back online

Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:00:00 +0000

TRAJECTORY WEB SERVICE IS BACK ONLINE
===========================================

The BADC Trajectory is now back in service at:

<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/community/trajectory/>

BADC Support 26/06/03.

Trajectory Web Service temporarily unavailable

Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:00:00 +0000

TRAJECTORY WEB SERVICE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE
===================================================

We regret that the BADC trajectory service is 
not currently available due to a technical problem. 

We hope to have it fixed shortly. Sorry for any inconvenience. 

BADC Support 20/06/03.

A new batch of high resolution radiosonde data is now available from the BADC.

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 05:00:00 +0000

A new batch of high resolution radiosonde data is now available from the BADC.
==============================================================================

The dataset now includes more recent data and data from extra stations. 
In particular 3 years of data from the St Helena site, and data from the new 
Met Office autosonde sites is now available.

More information about the High Resolution data held at the BADC can be found at:
<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/rad-highres/>

BADC Support
03th June 2003

TOMS data temporarily unavailable

Thu, 15 May 2003 05:00:00 +0000

Earth Probe TOMS went into safehold mode at 0025UTC on May 15, 2003. The problem appears to be a single event upset (SEU) in the attitude control system. This is very similar to the event that occurred in August 2002. TOMS is hoped to be back in science mode operation within a week.

New HadISST v1.1 dataset released to BADC users

Wed, 16 Apr 2003 05:00:00 +0000

The Met Office has now stopped updating GISST/GIICE datasets.

HadISST 1.1 is the replacement product provided by the Hadley Centre at the The Met Office.
It contains monthly long-term global gridded SST and sea ice analysis (1870 to present).

This dataset was available from the Met Office as an historical dataset and is now being made 
operational (i.e. updated every month). HadISST has a different sea-ice analysis from GISST; as 
a consequence of this, the data will not be available until the 2nd of the month, 
2 months afterwards (e.g. January's data will become available in March).

To find out more about this new dataset and access restrictions, please read through the 
[HadIsst dataset web pages](/data/hadisst/).

BADC Support 16/04/03.

GISST/GICE datasets ended - MOHMATN4 and MOHSST6 still updated

Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:00:00 +0000

The Met Office had planned to stop updating GISST/GIICE datasets in May 2003.
However, some problems were encountered in producing the GISST updates from March 2003.

"The current route for producing GISST uses the version 1 of the Reynolds optimally 
interpolated SSTs as background field in some areas, and these fields are no longer 
being produced. We (The Met Office) could switch to using version 2, but this would 
produce some differences in the result, particularly for areas close to sea-ice."

After careful consideration, the Met Office has decided to stop updating the GISST/GICE 
datasets. The last update is therefore for February 2003.

The Met Office has a replacement product, called HadISST, which has been available 
from the Met Office as an historical dataset and is now being made operational 
(i.e. updated every month). HadISST has a different sea-ice analysis from GISST; as 
a consequence of this, the data will not be available until the 2nd of the month, 
2 months afterwards (e.g. January's data will become available in March).

The BADC is now working on making this replacement dataset available to registered users.
Users will be informed in due course.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause in the meantime.

BADC Support 11/04/03.

Temporary Disruption to BADC FTP service on Friday 11th April 2003 from 2pm

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 05:00:00 +0000

Temporary Disruption to BADC FTP service on Friday 11th April 2003 from 2pm
============================================================================


The power supply to selected BADC computers is being checked. This will result 
in the disruption of BADC FTP services from 2pm on Friday 11th April for about 
an hour.

Data will still be available for [download via the web](http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser).

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.

BADC Support 10/04/03.

Public discussion forum open

Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC have opened a public discussion forum for discussion of anything related to atmospheric science or the data held by the BADC. You don’t even have to be registered to contribute!

Normal service resumed at the BADC

Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:00:00 +0000

The technical problems affecting the BADC over the past two day ( see previous news item) have now been fixed and all areas of the BADC site are now operational. We appologise for any inconvenience this disruption may have caused.

My BADC, Data catalogues, registration system temporarily unavailable

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 06:00:00 +0000

Due to technical difficulties, the following BADC Services are temporarily not available:

My BADC
New user registration and application for access to restricted datasets
Search for dataset facility As an alternative, please use the Dataset Dataset Index. . Please note that the link to Catalogue Record is however not available due to the same problems.
Search for Met Office Station details facility. For the time being, please use the link to List of Station names and numbers.
Who’s who facility
Access to the following datasets is currently not possible:
- CLAES-L3
- ECMWF-ERA
- ECMWF-FOR
- ECMWF-TRJ
- LIMS
- METEOSAT
- NDSC
- SAMS
- TOMS
- UARS
- UKMO-CLIMOD
- UKMO-PUM

All other services and access to datasets not listed above should be operational as usual.

Partial release of URGENT data

Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:00:00 +0000

Public release of some URGENT data
==================================

The data collected for the *Tracers and Dispersion of Gaseous Pollutants*
project under the auspices of the NERC *Urban Regeneration and the
Environment (URGENT)* thematic programme have been released to the
public domain.
The data files are available [online](http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/urgent/data/gaspol/) for browsing or downloading.

More information about the URGENT data held at the BADC can be found
at <http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/urgent/>

BADC Support
13th February 2003

Public release of PUMA data

Wed, 11 Dec 2002 06:00:00 +0000

Public release of PUMA data
===========================

The data collected during the two PUMA campaings of Summer 1999 and
Winter 2000 under the auspices of the NERC *Urban Regeneration and the
Environment (URGENT)* thematic programme have been released to the
public domain.
The data files are available [online](http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/urgent/data/pumaco/) for browsing or downloading.
A *quick look* facility allows the user to view the contents of each
file in a graphic mode.

More information about the URGENT data held at the BADC can be found
at <http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/urgent/>

BADC Support
11th December 2002

A new batch of high resolution radiosonde data is now available from the BADC.

Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:00:00 +0000

A new batch of high resolution radiosonde data is now available from the BADC.
==============================================================================

The dataset now includes more recent data and data from extra stations. 
In particular 2 years of data from the Mount Pleasant (Falklands) site 
is included. Data from the Met Office autosonde sites will be made available 
as soon we have software to read it.

More information about the High Resolution data held at the BADC can be found at:
<http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/rad-highres/>

BADC Support
05th December 2002

Met Office Stratospheric Data - NESDIS made a change to NOAA-16 processing affecting the stratosp

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:00:00 +0000

Met Office Stratospheric Data - - NESDIS made a change to 
NOAA-16 processing affecting the stratospheric data
============================================================

Message from the Met Office:

"NESDIS made a change to NOAA-16 processing on 22/11/02, which they
expected to be null but has actually caused a significant degradation.
As a result it has been excluded from the observations since then. This
has significantly effected the stratospheric data. Efforts are being
made to rectify this problem and we hope to be able to carry out reruns
within a few weeks. Sorry for the inconvenience.

In addition to the NOAA-16 problems we have realised that we have been
failing to use NOAA-17 observations, which is why the impact of NOAA-16
failing was so severe. We hope to begin using the NOAA-17 observations
operationally today, and reruns should follow."

BADC Support
27th November 2002

Haloe Level 2 version 19 data now updated to 21 October 2002

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:00:00 +0000

Haloe Level 2 version 19 data now updated to 21 October 2002
============================================================

More information about this dataset is available at 
<http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/haloe/>

BADC Support 20/11/02.

Telnet connections to the BADC file server not supported from January 2003

Fri, 01 Nov 2002 06:00:00 +0000

Telnet connections to the BADC file server not supported from January 2003
==========================================================================

As of January 2003, connections to tornado, the BADC file server, through Telnet and rlogin 
will not be supported. However, connections through SSH are supported.

SSH stands for Secure Shell, a program to log into another computer over a network, to execute 
commands in a remote machine. 

SSH is a program very similar to Telnet.The difference is that SSH uses encryption to keep the 
connection secure so that it is more difficult for hackers to spy on users password or other 
sensitive information that may pass through the connection.

If you have an account on tornado, then you need to download and install an SSH 
client program onto your computer.

For more details including links to SSH downloads, please go to the [Help page](/help/software/ssh/)

Temporary Disruption to BADC services on Friday 18th October from 8am to noon.

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 05:00:00 +0000

Temporary Disruption to BADC services on Friday 18th October from 8am to noon.
==============================================================================


The power supply to the BADC computer room is being upgraded. This will result 
in the disruption of BADC services from 8am to noon on Friday 18th October. 
In this period data will not be avaliable and the main server is likley to go
down without warning. 

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.

BADC Support 16/10/02.

CET Max/Min historical data now available from 1878

Tue, 03 Sep 2002 05:00:00 +0000

Central England Max and Min daily temperature data from 1878 have recently been acquired from the Met Office to complete the archive at the BADC.

TOMS data currently not available

Thu, 08 Aug 2002 05:00:00 +0000

The Earth Probe TOMS instrument is currently in STANDBY science mode. Normal operations are expected to resume early next week.

BADC launches great new look!

Sat, 20 Apr 2002 05:00:00 +0000

In July 2001, a user survey was sent by email to all BADC users to solicit feedback about the BADC website and services provided online.

Electricity Supply shutdown

Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:00:00 +0000

Due to an electricity supply shutdown at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (23-24 March 2002), 
the BADC File server (tornado) will be consequently temporarily shutdown from 
Friday 22th March at 4pm to Sunday 24th March. The BADC file server is expected 
to be back online from Monday 25th March.

This shutdown unfortunately implies that the BADC Web site and access to data 
and services will be temporarily unavailable.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.

BADC Support

BADC Support 20/03/02.

Met Office Stratospheric Data - now using OPERH identifiers

Wed, 27 Feb 2002 06:00:00 +0000

Met Office Stratospheric Data - now using OPERH identifiers
============================================================

The Middle Atmosphere Group at the Met Office has changed the data
assimilation model to include a bug fix that corrects a persistent
singularity over the South Pole in the stratosphere. It is only a minor
change, but as of yesterday's (26 Feb 2002) 12Z run, the assimilation
identifier has been changed from OPERG to OPERH (e.g. ppassm_operh_y02_m02_d26_h12.pp )

If you require any more details on this change, please contact the BADC
in a first instance. 

Thank You.

BADC Support
27th February 2002

BADC data Catalogues and Registration system temporarily unavailable

Tue, 26 Feb 2002 06:00:00 +0000

Due to database problems,the “Application for access to restricted datasets” system (including New User Registration) is temporarily unavailable.

For the same reason, the BADC Datasets catalogue is also temporarily unavailable. For the time being, please use the link to List of all datasets in BADC catalogue. Please note that the link to Catalogue Record is not available due to the same problems.

NASA unveils new 'NATURAL HAZARDS' web site

Thu, 17 Jan 2002 06:00:00 +0000

January 16, 2002

NASA UNVEILS NEW 'NATURAL HAZARDS' WEB SITE

NASA unveiled a new Web site today in which it publishes satellite
images in near real time over natural hazards around the world. A
new addition to NASA's Earth Observatory, [the Natural Hazards section](http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/), 
contains images and information about major environmental events that 
are potentially hazardous to human populations.

Initially, the Earth Observatory team will track five categories of
natural hazards: wildfires, severe storms, floods, volcanic
eruptions, and major air pollution events (dust storms, smog, and
smoke). The images-acquired by NASA Earth Science Enterprise and
Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite missions-are freely available
to the public as well as news media.

"We are pleased to be able to share these spectacular new images with
the world in a timely manner," said Michael King, EOS senior project
scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "We are often able
to publish these images within a matter of hours after they are
acquired by the satellite sensors."

"We believe the combination of high quality and moderate to high
resolution of the scenes we publish demonstrates the significant
technological advancements NASA has made in the design of satellite
remote sensors," King continued. "We hope the public finds the
images informative as well as useful for educational purposes."

Earth scientists around the world use NASA satellite imagery to
better understand the causes and effects of natural hazards. The goal
in sharing these new images in the Earth Observatory is to help
people visualize where and when natural hazards occur, and to
possibly help mitigate their effects.

There are plans to expand the section's scope to include other types
of natural hazards information, such as earthquakes, coastal erosion,
and landslides. The Earth Observatory is managed by the EOS Project
Science Office, and funded by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.

The Earth Science Enterprise is a long-term research program
dedicated to understanding how human-induced and natural changes
affect our global environment.
--

Dave Olsen, EOS Webmaster
Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Seabrook, MD 20706
Phone: 301-867-2032

 [-- Earth Observatory](http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/)
 [-- Visible Earth](http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/)
 [-- NASA's Earth Observing System Project Science Office](http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
 [-- GSFC's Web Resource List](http://thelist.gsfc.nasa.gov/)

Temporary BADC file server shutdown on Tuesday 12th December from 5pm

Fri, 07 Dec 2001 06:00:00 +0000

Temporary BADC file server shutdown on Tuesday 12th December from 5pm
======================================================================

The BADC File server (tornado) will be temporarily shutdown on 

 ** Tuesday 11th December 2001 from 5pm. **

This temporary interruption is necessary for some hardware upgrade.

 ** Normal service should resume on Wednesday 12th December 2001 **

This shutdown unfortunately implies that the BADC Web site and access to data 
and services will be temporarily unavailable.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.

BADC Support 07/12/01.

Historical Northern Hemisphere Mean Sea Level Pressure data (1873-1997) now available

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 06:00:00 +0000

Northern Hemisphere Mean Sea Level Pressure data now available
==============================================================

This data set holds gridded (5° latitude by 10° longitude grid) 
Northern Hemisphere (north of 15° N) monthly and daily series of Mean
Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) fields. The monthly series data are available 
for the period 1873 to 1997; the daily series data are available
for the period 1881 to 1997 . 

More information available at [http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/mslp/](/data/mslp/)

BADC Team
04/12/2001

Historical Northern Hemisphere Geopotential Height data now available from 1945

Wed, 21 Nov 2001 06:00:00 +0000

Historical Northern Hemisphere Geopotential Height data now available from 1945
===============================================================================

 This data set holds gridded (5 degree latitude by 5 degree longitude grid) 
 Northern Hemisphere (north of 15N) daily and monthly series of 500hPa geopotential 
 height fields and also daily and monthly series of 1000-500hPa thickness fields. 

 The historical data is now available for the period 1945 to present.

 More information available at <http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/height/>

 BADC Team

Temporary BADC File Server Shutdown

Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:00:00 +0000

Dear BADC User,

This message is to inform you that the BADC File server (tornado) will
be temporarily shutdown from Friday 16th November at 3pm to Sunday 18th
November. The BADC file server is expected to be operational again from
Monday 19th November.

This shutdown unfortunately implies that the BADC Web site and access to
data and services will be temporarily unavailable.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.

Regards,

BADC Support


BADC Support 15/11/01.

Positive News on UARS Mission

Thu, 01 Nov 2001 06:00:00 +0000

Message forwarded from Dr. Charles H. Jackman, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
================================================================================

October 25, 2001

UARS Colleagues:

We have generally positive news to report. Please send this on to
others as I may not have everyone on my UARS distribution list.

The latest news regarding the UARS Mission is given below:

MEETING AT NASA HEADQUARTERS ON OCTOBER 24TH - We had a meeting yesterday at

NASA Headquarters with Mike Luther (Deputy Associate Administrator)
and others in Code Y. We discussed the status of the UARS and the many
changes that are ongoing in the project as well as this option.
Generally we received positive feedback. We have been told to proceed
with the "Traceability Mission" option (see below) for the foreseeable
future. The total cost of the "Traceability Mission" option including
mission and science operations is about $3.7M. For comparison, the cost
of the UARS mission and science operations was about $15.4M in FY01.
We have received $2M so far that is being applied to the mission
operations.

UARS "TRACEABILITY MISSION" OPTION - This option will be primarily
focussed on providing validation/calibration measurements for upcoming
future missions. We hope to provide UARS validation measurements for
the following future FY02 missions: TIMED, SAGE III, ENVISAT-1, ADEOS II,
EOS Aqua, and SORCE. If we are successful in FY02, it may be possible
(with Code Y approval) to continue for an additional time period beyond
September 30, 2002, and overlap other missions.

UARS INSTRUMENT DATA COLLECTION - Instrument science observations
resumed on October 1st after being shutdown from September 24-30.
We are now in a "baseline operational mode" wherein we have 15 contacts/day
(once per orbit) as compared with 30 contacts/day (twice per orbit)
in FY01. This allows the collection of about 20-30% of the possible
data. Since the HALOE instrument uses the remaining working part
of the tape recorder, practically all of the HALOE observations are
being collected. There is enough power to operate HALOE on about
2/3rds of the days. After the launches of new missions, with an
appropriate time for outgassing and new instrument checks, the UARS
instruments will be operated in an "intense validation/calibrational
mode" for two-week observational periods. During these periods,
the UARS instruments will have 30 contacts/day so that 50-55% of the
data would be collected.

UARS CENTRAL DATA HANDLING FACILITY (CDHF) - Unfortunately, we will not
be able to fund the UARS CDHF beyond November 30, 2001. The UARS CDHF
is in the midst of final reprocessing, data archive, and supporting
the effort to move to data distribution through a "new" system called
PACOR-A.

UARS LONG-TERM DATA ARCHIVE - This issue is currently being addressed.
It is hoped that ultimately all the UARS data (including L0/L1/L2)
will be moved to the DAAC and be compatible with UNIX machines. To
complete this effort will require some funding beyond what has been
approved.

UARS RETRIEVAL - It was decided at the meeting yesterday that there
will not be a Space Shuttle retrieval of the UARS.

Thanks for your support. I am convinced that the community efforts over
these difficult several months.

Sincerely,

Charles Jackman
UARS Project Scientist

Portable Unified Model (V4.5) software now available from the BADC

Thu, 25 Oct 2001 05:00:00 +0000

Portable Unified Model Software from the BADC ================================== The Met Office Portable Unified Model (PUM) version 4.5 software is now available from the BADC to registered Portable Unified Model (PUM) data users. Details can be found at http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/pum/ . The code itself is located the software directory of the PUM dataset directory (/badc/ukmo-pum/software).

UARS Instrument Operations to Cease on Sep. 30, 2001

Wed, 08 Aug 2001 05:00:00 +0000

Message forwarded from Dr. Charles H. Jackman, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
================================================================================

July 23, 2001

UARS Colleagues:

We have some "Very Sad News" to report.

We were informed on Friday, July 20, 2001, that a final decision to
shut off UARS instrument operations on September 30, 2001, has 
been made at NASA Headquarters. Given the positive response that we
received at our May meeting with Jack Kaye, Ghassem Assarar, and
Mike Luther, we thought that UARS measurements would continue for at 
least part of FY02. We were encouraged to develop a minimum cost plan
for operations through December 31, 2002, and this had been our principle
activity up until Friday.

We were totally surprized and extremely disappointed by this decision
and we don't know if anything can be done to reverse this decision. 

No final decision has yet been made concerning the disposition of the
UARS and it is still possible that a retrieval will occur. Also, there
has yet been no final decision concerning the final archiving of the
UARS data.

It is possible that this message is not reaching everyone with interests
in the UARS. Please send it on to anyone who you think might need to
be informed about this decision.

This is all the information that we and Mike Kurylo (UARS Program Scientist)
have at this time. We will inform you if we hear any other information.

Sincerely,

Charles Jackman and Anne Douglass
UARS Project Scientist UARS Deputy Project Scientist

Final monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (OZPROF)

Mon, 23 Jul 2001 05:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
programme have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profiles (OZPROF) collected in November and December 1998.

Data directory:

- [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/)

| This concludes the release process of ACSOE data to the public domain.

COAPEC data now available from the BADC

Wed, 27 Jun 2001 05:00:00 +0000

The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate (COAPEC) dataset is now available from the BADC.

COAPEC is a NERC thematic programme designed to examine the variability of the Earth’s climate. The goal of COAPEC is to determine the impact on climate, especially European climate, of the coupling between the Atlantic Ocean and the atmosphere. This is currently a 100 year dataset derived from the HadCM3 model, and the years covered by the dataset are 2079 - 2178.

BADC contact details on your WAP phone!

Tue, 01 May 2001 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC contact details are now available from WAP phones. WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol, and is a world wide standard developed especially to allow mobile phones to access the Internet. Normal web sites on the World Wide Web would take too long to download over a mobile phone connection, and the detailed graphics would be too small to read on a handset display, so WAP takes just the important parts and displays them as text.

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (OZPROF)

Mon, 30 Apr 2001 05:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profiles (OZPROF) collected in October 1998.

Data directory:
* [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/)


______________
BADC Support
30/4/2001

BADC Searchable Catalogues and BADC Registration back online

Thu, 19 Apr 2001 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC Datasets catalogue (including the ACSOE catalogue), the Met Office Stations catalogue and the Registration Process are now available.

BADC Searchable Catalogues and BADC Registration temporarily unavailable

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 05:00:00 +0000

Due to database problems, the BADC Datasets catalogue (including the ACSOE catalogue) is temporarily unavailable.

For the time being, please use the link to List of all datasets in BADC catalogue. Please note that the link to Catalogue Record is not available due to the same problems.

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (OZPROF)

Thu, 15 Mar 2001 06:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profiles (OZPROF) collected in September 1998.

Data directory:
* [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/)


______________
BADC Support
15/3/2001

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (OZPROF)

Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profiles (OZPROF) collected in August 1998.

Data directory:
* [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/)


______________
BADC Support
2/3/2001

Northern Hemisphere Geopotential Height data (1998-present) now available

Fri, 23 Feb 2001 06:00:00 +0000

Northern Hemisphere Geopotential Height data now available
==========================================================

This data set holds gridded (5 degree latitude by 5 degree longitude grid) 
Northern Hemisphere (north of 15N) daily and monthly series of 500hPa geopotential 
height fields and also daily and monthly series of 1000-500hPa thickness fields. 
The data is available for the period 1998 to present.

More information available at <http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/height/>

BADC Team
23/2/2001

Delay in the TOMS data reporting because of a software problem at NASA

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 06:00:00 +0000

Delay in the TOMS data reporting because of a software problem at NASA
=================================================================

Leap year glitch - there was a problem in the NASA software in the ground control 
center such that the leap year was not being handled correctly. 
Data for December 31st was being assigned to January 1st. Leap years in the past 
were handled correctly by this software, so it not clear why it failed this time 
and it is taking longer to track down the problem than expected. 

Earth Probe is fine and Nasa has not lost any data. Nasa hope to have everything 
back on line tomorrow (the 4th). 

BADC Support
03-Jan-2001

Implementation of 3DVAR for the Met Office Stratospheric Analyses

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:00:00 +0000

Implementation of 3DVAR for the Met Office Stratospheric Analyses
=================================================================

The Middle Atmospheric Group at the Met Office has "been working on the 
development of a 3D variational (3DVAR) data assimilation
system to replace the Analysis Correction (AC) data assimilation
system. The stratospheric analyses were produced by a research data
assimilation from October 1991, and from October 1995 the research
system was replaced by a similar system which was run as part of the
operational suite. "
The new 3DVAR assimilation went operational on 14th November this year.
Output from the new system is now available at the BADC for scientific
research, in the same format as output from the current system.

"The major changes are:

* The introduction of the 3D variational data assimilation scheme. This
is described by the recent paper by Lorenc et al, 2000 (Quart. J. Roy.
Meteor. Soc., 126, 2992-3012).

* The assimilation of radiances, rather than temperature retrievals,
from polar orbiter satellites.

* The use of a new model configuration, with 40 (rather than 42) levels;
this is closer to what is used in the standard global forecast model.

Preliminary trials of the new data assimilation system have indicated
that the analysed fields in the troposphere and lower stratosphere are
similar to those from the current system. Objective forecast verification 
scores have indicated significant benefit from the change from AC (with
assimilation of retrievals) to the use of 3DVAR (with radiance assimilation). 
In the upper stratosphere the changes are more marked: the stratopause is 
typically 10 K warmer than in the current system, with the uppermost levels
cooler. These latter changes are are largely a reversal of biases that
were introduced inadvertently in January 1999 when the ozone climatology
file was changed incorrectly."


A new filename convention has been adopted to differentiate the output
files from the new 3DVAR assimilation scheme and the data files from the
previous AC data assimilation system. Hence
ppassm_operf_y.._m.._d.._h...pp becomes
ppassm_operg_y.._m.._d.._h...pp

At the BADC, the new data files can be found in the current year
assimilated data directory: /badc/ukmo-assim/data/standard/2000/
The Assimilated data documentation on the BADC Web pages will be updated
shortly.


BADC Support
15th November 2000

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (FREETEX, OZPROF)

Wed, 01 Nov 2000 06:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* data from the FREETEX campaign of 1996 (FREETEX-96);
* data from the FREETEX campaign of 1998 (FREETEX-98);
* ozone profiles (OZPROF) collected in April 1998.

Data directories:
* [/badc/acsoe/data/freetex-96/jungfrau/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/freetex-96/jungfrau/)
* [/badc/acsoe/data/freetex-98/jungfrau/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/freetex-98/jungfrau/)
* [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/)


______________
BADC Support
1/11/2000

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)

Mon, 02 Oct 2000 05:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profile data (OZPROF) collected in March 1998.

Data directory: [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/)

______________
BADC Support
2/10/2000

New Download UKMO Station data Service

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:00:00 +0000

The BADC has made available a new service allowing registered users to download selected UKMO surface station data from multiple stations and multiple years. To access this new service, proceed as follows:

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)

Fri, 01 Sep 2000 05:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profile data (OZPROF) collected in February 1998.

Data directory: [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/)

______________
BADC Support
1/9/2000

Delays in setting up new BADC user accounts

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Delays in setting up new BADC user accounts
===========================================

Due to the Royal Mail Strike in Oxfordshire, no mail has been delivered to 
the BADC for the past 7 days.

This unfortunately implies that no applications for new BADC Accounts have 
been delivered to the BADC for the past 7 days and nobody knows how long 
it will last. Consequently there will be delays in setting up accounts for 
new BADC users.

However, if you wish to access restricted data in earnest, please contact the 
BADC Support at badc@rl.ac.uk .

 
We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.


BADC Support 15/08/00.

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles, HILLCLOUD)

Tue, 01 Aug 2000 05:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profile data (OZPROF) collected in December 1997 and January 1998;
* data from the HILLCLOUD campaigns of June-July 1996 and June-July 1997.

Data directories: * [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/)
 * [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/98/)
 * [/badc/acsoe/data/hillcloud-96/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/hillcloud-96/)
 * [/badc/acsoe/data/hillcloud-97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/hillcloud-97/)

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BADC Support
1/8/2000

Haloe Level 3A Data Version 19 are now publicly available from the BADC

Mon, 24 Jul 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Haloe Level 3A version 19 data now publically available from the BADC
====================================================================

The BADC has recently acquired the HALOE Level 3A version 19 data.
This dataset covers the time period from 11-OCT-1991 through 30-APR-2000. 
The HALOE level 3A data are vertical profiles of methane (CH4), hydrogen 
chloride (HCl), hydrogen fluoride (HF), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2),
water vapor (H2O), ozone (O3), temperature (TEMP), and aerosol extinction 
(AEXTCH4, AEXTHCL, AEXTHF and AEXTNO).

More information about this dataset is available at 
<http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/haloel3/>

BADC Support 24/07/00.

GISST2.3 Data have had to be replaced

Wed, 12 Jul 2000 05:00:00 +0000

GISST2.3 Data have had to be replaced
=====================================

The UK Met. Office has recently discovered an error in their reformat-to-send-out program 
which has made a difference of 1 in the second decimal place of the GISST dataset we hold. 
The difference is negligible but to be consistent, the BADC replaced all the GISST files
with the correct version 2.3 provided by the UK Met. Office. 
10 years gzipped data files as provided by the UK Met. Office have also been made available.

Note that the GICE data are unaffected.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.


BADC Support 12/07/00.

UKMO Global Mean Sea-Level Pressure (GMSLP2.1f) data set covering period 1871-1994 just rele

Fri, 09 Jun 2000 05:00:00 +0000

The GMSLP is a fully global mean sea-level pressure (GMSLP) data set, developed in collaboration with CSIRO (Scientific and Industrial Research for Australia), Australia and NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), New Zealand. It is an historical, 5x5 deg. gridded monthly dataset covering the period 1871-1994.

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)

Mon, 05 Jun 2000 05:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profile data (OZPROF) collected in November 1997.

Data directory: * [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/)

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BADC Support
5/6/2000

UKMO Global Mean Sea-Level Pressure (GMSLP2.1f) data set now available at the BADC

Wed, 17 May 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)

Tue, 02 May 2000 05:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profile data (OZPROF) collected in October 1997.

Data directory: * [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/)

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BADC Support
2/5/2000

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (C-130, ozone profiles)

Sat, 01 Apr 2000 06:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* C-130 data from 1997;
* ozone profile data (OZPROF) collected in September 1997.

Data directores: * [/badc/acsoe/data/c-130/97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/c-130/97/)
 * [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/)

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Anne De Rudder
1/4/2000

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)

Wed, 01 Mar 2000 06:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* ozone profile data (OZPROF) collected in August 1997.

Data directory: * [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/)

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Anne De Rudder
1/3/2000

BADC Searchable Catalogues temporarily unavailable.

Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:00:00 +0000

BADC Searchable Catalogues temporarily unavailable
===================================================

Due to database problems, the BADC Datasets catalogue (including the ACSOE
catalogue) is temporarily unavailable. 
For the time being, please use the link to [List of all datasets in BADC catalogue](/data/dataset_index). Please note that the link to
*Catalogue Record* is not available due to the same problems. 

For the same reason, the UKMO Station catalogue is also temporarily unavailable.
For the time being, please use the link to [List of Station names and numbers](/data/surface/station_lists/midas_stations.html).

We are now working on the problem and hope to restore access to these services
as soon as possible. We will let you know when the catalogues are back online. 
We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.


BADC Support 28/02/00.

Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (EAE, EASE, ozone profiles)

Tue, 01 Feb 2000 06:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data monthly release
==========================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE
project have been released to the public domain:

* the EAE (-96 and -97) data;
* the EASE (-96 and -97) data;
* ozone profile data (OZPROF) collected in July 1997.

Data directories: * [/badc/acsoe/data/eae-96/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/eae-96/)
 * [/badc/acsoe/data/eae-97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/eae-97/)
 * [/badc/acsoe/data/ease-96/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ease-96/)
 * [/badc/acsoe/data/ease-97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ease-97/)
 * [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/)

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Anne De Rudder
1/2/2000

Subsets of ACSOE datasets are made public (c-130, ozone profiles)

Wed, 12 Jan 2000 06:00:00 +0000

ACSOE data made public up to June 1997
======================================

Some data archived in the framework of the ACSOE project have been released
to the public. These are

* the C-130 data collected during the September 1996 campaign;
* ozone profile data (OZPROF) collected between January and June 1997.

Data directories: * [/badc/acsoe/data/c-130/96/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/c-130/96/)
 * [/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/](/cgi-bin/data_browser/data_browser/badc/acsoe/data/ozprof/aberystwyth/97/)

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Anne De Rudder
12/1/2000

New Earth-Probe and ADEOS TOMS images available

Tue, 10 Dec 1996 06:00:00 +0000

10th Dec. 1996: GIF images of ADEOS and Earth-Probe TOMS are now being produced automatically on arrival of the data at the BADC. The full set of northern and southern hemisphere images for these data are available in the adeos and earthprobe subdirectories below /badc/toms/images/south (and /north).See: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/toms/