Centre for Environmental Data Analysis

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

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

March 28, 2022 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

March 21, 2022 • 1 min read • news

REMINDER - JASMIN further maintenance period 29th March

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....

March 18, 2022 • 2 min read • news

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

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....

March 15, 2022 • 1 min read • news

Tape Maintenance 18th to 28th March

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....

March 15, 2022 • 1 min read • news

Changes to your CEDA login account

Dear CEDA users, We are currently in the process of rolling out a number of improvements to our accounts and login systems....

March 14, 2022 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

February 28, 2022 • 2 min read • news

Final reminder - JASMIN upcoming maintenance periods

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

February 18, 2022 • 1 min read • news

Survey for Sentinel data users

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....

February 17, 2022 • 1 min read • news

Further Tape Maintenance 18th to 22nd February

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....

February 9, 2022 • 1 min read • news

Issues affecting access to CEDA and JASMIN services for some users

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

February 4, 2022 • 1 min read • news

Maintenance downtime for CEDA login and accounts pages

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....

January 24, 2022 • 2 min read • news

Vacancies student placement opportunities

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....

January 19, 2022 • 1 min read • news

RESOLVED JASMIN issue with access roles

Dear Users, We believe that the issue with JASMIN access roles is now resolved and missing access roles have been restored....

January 17, 2022 • 1 min read • news

The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Survey

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

December 17, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Vacancies Head of CEDA, Project Manager, JASMIN Director

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....

December 14, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

December 7, 2021 • 2 min read • news

CEDA and JASMIN support over the Christmas period

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”....

December 3, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

November 30, 2021 • 2 min read • news

CEDA leads UKRI’s net zero computing goals

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....

November 30, 2021 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN Updates reminder Network at risk 1st Dec - postponed

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

November 12, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Vacancy data specialist job opportunity at NCAS

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....

November 10, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

November 4, 2021 • 3 min read • news

Sentinel data variety and volume

The CEDA Archive now holds over 10 Petabytes of satellite data from the Sentinels - this increases in volume at over 7 Terabytes per day....

November 2, 2021 • 2 min read • news

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

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....

October 25, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reminder Tape service maintenance 26/27 Oct

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....

October 22, 2021 • 3 min read • news

European Climate Data Explorer an interactive tool for policy-makers

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....

October 21, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

Dear users, Please note the following updates for your attention: Tape service maintenance 26/27 October 2021 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....

October 5, 2021 • 3 min read • news

Disseminating essential climate data CMIP and ESGF

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....

October 4, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reminder System Maintenance 5th October 2021

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....

September 28, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Brief network interruptions Wed 29 Sept 2021

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....

September 20, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Now resolved Issues to CEDA Archive download service

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....

September 20, 2021 • 2 min read • news

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

Please note the following JASMIN announcements for your attention: 1) Issues affecting access to JASMIN Cloud via portal and SSH currently under investigation....

September 15, 2021 • 3 min read • news

New technical blog sharing expertise about managing petabytes of data

Experts at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) have launched a new technical blog for sharing expertise about how we manage petabytes of data....

September 10, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Vacancy two graduate roles

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

September 8, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

August 18, 2021 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN updates network maintenance

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....

August 11, 2021 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN updates network maintenance

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....

August 10, 2021 • 2 min read • news

Important JASMIN updates August 2021

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...

August 9, 2021 • 2 min read • news

The data behind the new IPCC report

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....

July 29, 2021 • 4 min read • news

Improved access for Met Office Weather data held in CEDA Archive

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....

July 27, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

July 23, 2021 • 1 min read • news

CEDA and JASMIN support over summer period

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”....

July 19, 2021 • 1 min read • news

LOTUS scheduler issues update

Update - 20th July 10 am: While investigations continue into the root cause of recent problems, the cluster now appears to be behaving normally....

July 5, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reminder JASMIN system maintenance tomorrow, Tuesday 6th July 2021

Dear users, Scheduled maintenance is planned for tomorrow, Tuesday 6th July 2021, which will cause some disruption to JASMIN and CEDA services....

July 1, 2021 • 8 min read • news

Supporting COP26 hackathons

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....

June 24, 2021 • 3 min read • news

JASMIN status updates and reminder of planned maintenance Tuesday 6 July

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: https://www....

June 22, 2021 • 4 min read • news

My path into Software Engineering - Elle Smith

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....

June 17, 2021 • 4 min read • news

Supporting air quality assessments in the UK

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....

June 8, 2021 • 4 min read • news

JASMIN helps to predict seabird breeding abundance in a changing climate

Many of us have been to the coast and seen seabirds, but have you ever considered how they might be affected by climate change?...

June 8, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Vacancy JASMIN Research Software Engineer

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....

May 20, 2021 • 4 min read • news

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

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....

May 17, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

May 13, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

May 11, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

Dear all, Apologies for the short notice but the reboot of servers planned for today announced in our recent update is cancelled....

May 11, 2021 • 2 min read • news

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

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

May 6, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reboot of servers Tuesday 11 May 2021

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....

April 30, 2021 • 2 min read • news

Update on JASMIN disk and tape storage issues

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...

April 22, 2021 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN storage issues and update on network connectivity

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

April 22, 2021 • 5 min read • news

CEDA services improve access to global climate data

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

April 20, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reminder Network interruption tomorrow, Wed 21 April 2021

Tomorrow, Wednesday 21st April, upgrades by our host institution to the RAL site firewall will be undertaken between 06:00 and 10:00....

April 6, 2021 • 2 min read • news

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

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....

April 6, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Cloud Upgrade, May 2021

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”....

March 30, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

March 23, 2021 • 5 min read • news

Oceans in the Cloud working interactively with huge datasets using Pangeo

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....

March 10, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Continuing Problems with Elastic Tape

Unfortunately we are still having recurring problems with the Elastic Tape system. This has resulted in further failures of both ingesting and retrieving data....

March 10, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reminder Brief network interruptions Today, 10th March

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....

March 3, 2021 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN System Maintenance - now complete

The scheduled maintenance that happened yesterday, Tuesday 2nd March 2021, is now completed. Most JASMIN and CEDA services are back running as normal....

March 1, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Final Reminder JASMIN System Maintenance Tomorrow - Tues 2 March 2021

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

February 26, 2021 • 2 min read • news

Update to high-performance data transfer services

Dear users, As previously announced, we are making further changes to some data transfer services: ftp.ceda.ac.uk (CEDA Archive FTP server)...

February 23, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reminder Notice JASMIN System Maintenance Tues 2 March 2021

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....

February 19, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Update Problems with Elastic Tape

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

February 17, 2021 • 1 min read • news

reboot of server nx-login2 at 1600 today

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....

February 16, 2021 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN Sci3,5 reboot at 0900 AM TOMORROW!

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....

February 11, 2021 • 2 min read • news

Problem with LOTUS batch scheduler - SLURM

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....

February 11, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reminder Update to high-performance data transfer services

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)...

February 10, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Job opportunity - JASMIN Software Developer

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....

February 10, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Problems with Elastic Tape

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....

February 4, 2021 • 1 min read • news

File corruption issues

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....

February 1, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Update to high-performance data transfer services

Dear users, You will be aware that many JASMIN and CEDA services were redeployed from RHEL6 to CentOS7 operating systems last year....

January 28, 2021 • 4 min read • news

JASMIN helps track the impact of climate change on UK birds

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....

January 26, 2021 • 1 min read • news

File corruption issues

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....

January 25, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reboot of server hpxfer1.jasmin.ac.uk

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

January 20, 2021 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

January 20, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Reminder - Change of server for Elastic Tape service.

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....

January 7, 2021 • 1 min read • news

Helpdesk email issue please use beacon has now been resolved

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....

January 5, 2021 • 3 min read • news

Update COVID-19 impact on CEDA and JASMIN operations

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....

December 16, 2020 • 3 min read • news

CEDA 2020 highlights our work behind the scenes

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)....

December 16, 2020 • 3 min read • news

Helping users get the most out of JASMIN in 2020

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....

December 11, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder CEDA and JASMIN support over Christmas period

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....

December 2, 2020 • 1 min read • news

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

The Near-Line Archive (NLA) tape system will be unavailable from the evening of Friday the 4th December until Monday the 7th December 2020....

December 1, 2020 • 2 min read • news

CEDA and JASMIN support over Christmas period

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”....

November 30, 2020 • 1 min read • news

New JASMIN website live

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!...

November 27, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Some CEDA/JASMIN Services unavailable

Over the last year, the team has worked hard to migrate all of our services to a new operating system (CentOS7)....

November 25, 2020 • 4 min read • news

LOTUS/SLURM issues update 2

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....

November 16, 2020 • 2 min read • news

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

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....

October 29, 2020 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Data Catalogue update 1700-1715 today.

The CEDA Data Catalogue service will be offline between 1700 and 1715 to allow the roll-out of a number of minor updates....

October 29, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Short JASMIN outage on Wednesday 4th November at 7am

Dear Users, JASMIN’s host institute at RAL are planning some short breaks in connectivity for a site wide firewall firmware upgrade....

October 28, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Update on tape library maintenance 26-28 Oct

Dear Users, Maintenance work to the tape library has now been completed including tests to check that all is operating as expected....

October 26, 2020 • 2 min read • news

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

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....

October 26, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder - Tape library maintenance 26-28 Oct

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....

October 23, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Tape library maintenance 26-28 Oct

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....

October 22, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reboot of Globus/GridFTP server 22 Oct 1700

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....

October 21, 2020 • 2 min read • news

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

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....

October 21, 2020 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Document Repository back online

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....

October 21, 2020 • 2 min read • news

MIDAS Open version 202007 released More UK weather station data added

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....

October 15, 2020 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

October 9, 2020 • 1 min read • news

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

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....

October 6, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Update to opensearch.ceda.ac.uk

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....

October 6, 2020 • 2 min read • news

LOTUS/SLURM issues update

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....

October 2, 2020 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Catalogue Update 5pm today

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

September 30, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Backlog of helpdesk queries - delayed response likely

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

September 18, 2020 • 1 min read • news

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

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

September 16, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 11

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....

September 14, 2020 • 1 min read • news

System maintenance Tues 15 Sept 2020

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....

September 10, 2020 • 1 min read • news

NLA unavailable from Fri 11th to Tues 15th Sept 2020

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....

September 7, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Tape library maintenance Tues 8 Sept 2020

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....

August 28, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Limited support for CEDA/JASMIN services until 2nd Sept

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....

August 28, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Reminder JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 10

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...

August 25, 2020 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN Services Updates

Dear Users, We would like to update you about the issues that affected the JASMIN virtualisation platform yesterday, Monday 24th August....

August 24, 2020 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN and CEDA services currently at risk

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....

August 19, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Update on tape library maintenance 17/18 Aug

Dear users, Maintenance work to the tape library has now been completed including tests to check that all is operating as expected....

August 17, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder Tape library maintenance 17/18 Aug

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....

August 13, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Tape library maintenance 17/18 Aug

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....

August 6, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Update to the CEDA User Database at 9pm this evening (06/08/2020)

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....

August 4, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Save the date! JASMIN2020 virtual event

This online event will take place on the mornings of Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th September - and is free to attend....

August 3, 2020 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Data Catalogue Update Tuesday 10am

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....

July 28, 2020 • 1 min read • news

UPDATE Tape system upgrade completed services now available for use

Maintenance work to add additional capacity to the tape library has now been completed including tests to check that all is operating as expected....

July 27, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage

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....

July 27, 2020 • 1 min read • news

UPDATE Tape systems unavailable (duration extended)

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....

July 20, 2020 • 1 min read • news

UPDATE Tape systems unavailable 21-28 July (duration extended)

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....

July 16, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage

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....

July 13, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Update complete data.ceda.ac.uk

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....

July 9, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Tape systems unavailable 22-24 July

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....

July 3, 2020 • 1 min read • news

ESGF user feedback survey

We would like to announce the launch of the ESGF user feedback survey 2020. This infrastructure-focused survey aims to collect feedback from a broad range of ESGF users, CMIP6 modeling groups contributing data, CMIP6 MIP-chairs who have requested data, as well as the broader community of CMIP data users and stakeholders....

July 3, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 9

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....

June 29, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder User survey to gauge needs in preparation for purchase of a new GPU cluster

This is just a reminder that the planned 2020 upgrade for JASMIN will include a substantial upgrade to JASMIN GPU capacity....

June 24, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage

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....

June 22, 2020 • 4 min read • news

JASMIN and CEDA services affected by power outage - now resolved

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....

June 22, 2020 • 1 min read • news

User survey to gauge needs in preparation for purchase of a new GPU cluster

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....

June 16, 2020 • 3 min read • news

Changes to JASMIN Helpdesk

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....

June 10, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Reminder JASMIN at-risk period 11th June 2020

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....

June 5, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 8

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....

June 2, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN at-risk period 11th June 2020

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....

May 21, 2020 • 2 min read • news

IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage

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....

May 20, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 7

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....

May 18, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Become a CloudCatcher Climate science needs your family’s help!

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....

May 18, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN low at-risk period 22nd - 25th May 2020

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)....

May 18, 2020 • 1 min read • news

IMPORTANT Reminder The first purge of /work/scratch-nompiio is scheduled on 27th May

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)....

May 15, 2020 • 1 min read • news

IMPORTANT The first purge of /work/scratch-nompiio is scheduled on 27th May

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)....

May 13, 2020 • 1 min read • news

IMPORTANT information for ALL JASMIN USERS

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....

May 13, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Reminder JASMIN maintenance & at-risk periods May 2020

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...

May 5, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 6

Dear JASMIN users, We are pleased to announce the following: Update on SLURM New data transfer servers New JASMIN login server...

May 5, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN maintenance & at-risk periods May 2020

April 27, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tomorrow 28 April 2020

A reminder that scheduled maintenance is planned for tomorrow 28th April 2020, potentially affecting some storage systems and services which rely on them....

April 24, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Crucial dataset helps scientists monitor climate change

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....

April 22, 2020 • 4 min read • news

Enabling essential climate science research

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....

April 22, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Update on JASMIN Maintenance 21 April 2020

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....

April 21, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Today & 28 April 2020

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....

April 20, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tues 21 & 28 April 2020

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....

April 17, 2020 • 2 min read • news

CEDA helps design new Girlguiding and Scouts challenge

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....

April 14, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN Maintenance Tues 21 & 28 April 2020

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....

April 8, 2020 • 1 min read • news

GWS (/gws/nopw/j04/) performance issue

Dear JASMIN users, We are aware that users are experiencing difficulties with performance and access to some resources on JASMIN at present....

April 1, 2020 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 5

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....

March 24, 2020 • 1 min read • news

COVID-19 lockdown- impact on CEDA and JASMIN operations

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....

March 19, 2020 • 2 min read • news

New service Jupyter notebooks on JASMIN

We are pleased to announce the release of a new JASMIN service providing access to Jupyter notebooks. What is the JASMIN Notebook service?...

March 19, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Low level of at risk for ET, JDMA, and NLA between 1400 and 1500 today

There is a very small risk of these services being affected by work being carried out in the machine room between these times....

March 16, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reboot of jasmin-xfer3 at 1030 today

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....

March 10, 2020 • 1 min read • news

No user support for CEDA/JASMIN on Thursday 12th March

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....

March 9, 2020 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN2020 abstract deadline extension 16th March

We are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submissions to JASMIN2020 has been extended until Monday 16th March at midday....

March 6, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Performance issues on JASMIN (6th March)

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....

March 6, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Outage of ET, NLA, and JDMA - OVER

These services are now available again. Ingestions in progress have been recommenced, but and retrievals will have to be restarted....

March 6, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Outage of ET, NLA, and JDMA

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....

March 3, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Performance issues on JASMIN (3rd March)

We are aware of some performance issues on JASMIN. We are currently investigating these issues and will provide updates via our news channel here....

February 26, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Performance issues on JASMIN

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....

February 11, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Elastic Tape, NLA, and JDMA now available

The work on patching etc has gone well, and these systems are now available. Data ingestions that were paused have been re-enabled....

February 7, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Data Catalogue update 1600 today.

A quirk in the data catalogue admin interface has recently come to light concerning time zones and entering temporal extent on some records....

February 6, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Virtualisation host reboot Friday 7 Feb AM virtual machines affected

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....

February 4, 2020 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN Accounts Portal down for maintenance - 5th Feb AM

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....

February 4, 2020 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 4

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....

February 4, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Intermittent Data Download Issues

We are still experiencing some intermittent issues with downloading data via dap.ceda.ac.uk For further details about alternative download routes please refer back to the previous news item here: https://www....

February 3, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reboot of jasmin-xfer2, overloading on xfer hosts

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....

February 3, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Elastic Tape, NLA, and JDMA not available 0800-1500 Tuesday 11th February

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....

January 30, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Improved security for JASMIN accounts - coming soon

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....

January 23, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Issue with jasmin-login and jasmin-sci* machines - now fixed!

The below issue seemed to be due to a network cable that was causing some problems with the slow jasmin connections....

January 23, 2020 • 1 min read • news

REMINDER JASMIN systems change freeze - 24/01 to 03/02

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....

January 21, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Issue with jasmin-login and jasmin-sci* machines

We are aware of an issue with jasmin-login and jasmin-sci* machines. We are investigating this and are working to resolve it ASAP....

January 16, 2020 • 2 min read • news

Data downloads have conked out - now fixed!

We believe the below issues are now resolved. Please contact us if you are still experiencing issues downloading data via dap....

January 14, 2020 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN systems change freeze - 24/01 to 03/02

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....

January 13, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tuesday 14th January 2020

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....

January 10, 2020 • 1 min read • news

WPS Problems - now resolved

The below issue with the CEDA Web Processing Service (WPS) has now been resolved. If you are still experiencing issues, please let us know....

January 6, 2020 • 1 min read • news

Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tuesday 14th January 2020

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....

December 20, 2019 • 3 min read • news

Celebrating 25 years of CEDA

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....

December 19, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Advance notice JASMIN maintenance Tues 14 Jan 2020

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....

December 17, 2019 • 2 min read • news

CEDA and JASMIN support over Christmas period

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....

December 11, 2019 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 UPDATE 3

This is the third update about migrating the JASMIN infrastructure from RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) to CentOS7. The previous two announcements are linked here:...

December 10, 2019 • 2 min read • news

Save the date! JASMIN2020 conference dates now announced

The JASMIN2020 conference will showcase how the JASMIN facility is supporting and advancing environmental research. This free event will be held at JASMIN’s home institution, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire, on Tuesday 16th June 2020....

November 29, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Issues with downloading data - 29/11/2019

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....

November 28, 2019 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN maintenance now complete, some changes to LOTUS queues - please read

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....

November 28, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA now available

The database migration has been completed a lot faster than expected, and so ET, NLA, and JDMA are now available....

November 26, 2019 • 1 min read • news

REMINDER JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable

This is another reminder that further scheduled maintenance is required TOMORROW (Wednesday 27th November) to supplement the work recently undertaken on 14th October....

November 26, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA not available - from 1600 TODAY

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....

November 25, 2019 • 1 min read • news

http//data.ceda.ac.uk/ may experience short disruption Monday 25th November

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....

November 25, 2019 • 2 min read • news

CEDA Apprentice wins two STFC awards

Congratulations are in order for CEDA’s current apprentice, Matthew Richards, after he won an award at STFC RAL’s annual Apprentice Awards Evening....

November 19, 2019 • 1 min read • news

REMINDER JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable

This is another reminder that further scheduled maintenance is required on Wednesday 27th November to supplement the work recently undertaken on 14th October....

November 12, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA not available - from 1600 Tuesday, November 26 until Wednesday 27th - at risk Thursday 28th

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....

November 12, 2019 • 1 min read • news

REMINDER JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable

This is just a reminder that further scheduled maintenance is required on Wednesday 27th November to supplement the work recently undertaken on 14th October....

November 6, 2019 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable

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....

November 6, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Now resolved Issues to dap.ceda.ac.uk service

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:...

November 6, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA - end of at risk period - Wednesday 6th November 0900-1300

The update activity is now complete.

November 4, 2019 • 2 min read • news

MIDAS Open version 201908 released More UK weather station data added

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....

October 31, 2019 • 5 min read • news

Using JASMIN for the largest ever UK wildlife assessment

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....

October 30, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA - at risk Wednesday 6th November 0900-1300

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....

October 29, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive issues now resolved

We have now resolved the issues affecting the following CEDA Archive services: data.ceda.ac.uk dap.ceda.ac.uk Please let us know if you experience any further issues....

October 29, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Some CEDA Archive services currently unavailable

We are currently experiencing some issues with the following CEDA Archive services: data.ceda.ac.uk dap.ceda.ac.uk You can still access and download data via FTP....

October 28, 2019 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 UPDATE 2

This is the second update about our progress towards updating our infrastructure from RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) to CentOS7....

October 24, 2019 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN External Cloud Tenancies Network change today

A network change that will affect a number of virtual machines in External Cloud tenancies is scheduled for today, October 24....

October 23, 2019 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN & CEDA Services at risk Wednesday 30th Oct

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....

October 16, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Update for yesterday’s system maintenance

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....

October 1, 2019 • 2 min read • news

Migration of JASMIN virtual machines - how will this affect you?

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)....

September 19, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Reminder system maintenance Today 15 October 2019

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....

September 5, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Issues with accessing GWS volumes

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....

September 4, 2019 • 1 min read • news

ET retrievals and NLA - at risk Thursday 5th Sept 0800-1600

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....

August 19, 2019 • 1 min read • news

ET and NLA - Interruption for retrievals tomorrow

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....

August 19, 2019 • 1 min read • news

LOTUS service currently reduced

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....

August 19, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Reduced services on 26/27th August and surrounding weeks

CEDA and JASMIN services will be unsupported on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th August due to the UK summer bank holiday....

August 7, 2019 • 3 min read • news

A day in the life of a work experience student

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… My name is Katherine Nutt, I am 17 and I go to Blessed George Napier School in Banbury....

August 6, 2019 • 1 min read • news

ET and NLA - return to service

The problematic hardware has now been replaced and the system tested. ET and the NLA are now back in full service....

August 5, 2019 • 1 min read • news

ET and NLA - Outage scheduled for Monday 5th extended

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....

August 2, 2019 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN Unmanaged Cloud and DTZ servers at risk 14th August

The link between the JASMIN Unmanaged Cloud and the JASMIN Data Transfer Zone will be upgraded from 2x10Gb to 2x40Gb during the 14th August....

August 1, 2019 • 1 min read • news

ET and NLA - Outage scheduled for Monday 5th, plus possible at risk period

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....

July 26, 2019 • 1 min read • news

ET and NLA - return to normal service

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....

July 17, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Data transfer service at risk TODAY (Weds 17th July)

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....

July 11, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive data catalogue unavailable 400pm today

The CEDA data catalogue service will be briefly unavailable at 4:00pm today, Thursday 11th July. Apologies for the inconvenience. CEDA Team

July 3, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Reboot of cems-sci2, jasmin-sci3 1630 Thurs 4 July

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....

July 2, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Network maintenance Saturday 6th July

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....

July 1, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Data Catalogue Service update 2nd July 1000 - 1030

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....

June 27, 2019 • 2 min read • news

Our first ever ‘hands on’ JASMIN workshop

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....

June 27, 2019 • 1 min read • news

ET and NLA returned to service

The problem has now been dealt with, and service has returnwed to normal. Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience....

June 27, 2019 • 1 min read • news

ET and NLA affected by back-end network outage

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....

June 26, 2019 • 1 min read • news

LOTUS LSF Upgrade Thursday 27th June

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....

June 24, 2019 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN access issues today are now fixed

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....

June 24, 2019 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN access issues

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....

June 21, 2019 • 2 min read • news

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....

June 18, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive data catalogue update 1600-1630 today

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....

June 10, 2019 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN Accounts Portal Maintenance

The JASMIN Accounts Portal will be down for maintenance tomorrow (11 June). The service should be considered at risk all day....

June 7, 2019 • 2 min read • news

Being ‘fussy pedants’ for the sake of climate science

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)....

May 30, 2019 • 1 min read • news

ET and NLA affected by back-end tape outage

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....

May 23, 2019 • 4 min read • news

Supporting scientists to study our complex planet

The CEDA team are using data science expertise to support a major project that will warn us of changes in the Earth’s ecosystem....

May 15, 2019 • 1 min read • news

IMPORTANT Rebooting jasmin-sci[1,4] at 330PM Today!

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...

May 13, 2019 • 2 min read • news

CEDA at Living Planet Symposium 2019

Four members of the CEDA team are attending the European Space Agency’s 2019 Living Planet Symposium taking place this week in Milan....

May 10, 2019 • 1 min read • news

IMPORTANT Server reboot affecting JASMIN sci & LOTUS on Monday 13-May-2019

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....

May 8, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Improvements to data.ceda.ac.uk Thursday 9th May 930

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....

May 3, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive Browser download improvements scheduled for Tuesday 7th May

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....

May 1, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Elastic Tape now fully available

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....

April 30, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Elastic Tape and NLA now available

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....

April 29, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive data browser unavailable 900-1300 30th April

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....

April 26, 2019 • 1 min read • news

IMPORTANT jasmin-sci4 reboot at 330pm Today

Dear All, The JASMIN scientific server jasmin-sci4 needs to be rebooted at 3:30 pm today to clear up stuck processes using on...

April 18, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Update JASMIN Cloud upgrade

Yesterday (17 April), we intended to upgrade the JASMIN OpenStack Cloud from the current Mitaka-based release to the most recent Queens-based release....

April 8, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Storage Problems on JASMIN has now been resolved

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....

April 8, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Changes to the look of the CEDA archive web download service

We are updating the CEDA archive download service found in this link: http://data.ceda.ac.uk/ It has very similar functionality to the previous version but if you encounter any problems, please let us know....

April 8, 2019 • 2 min read • news

CEDA at EGU 2019

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....

April 5, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive partial storage issues final update

The CEDA team have now restored the vast majority of datasets affected by the error that caused data to be mistakenly deleted....

April 5, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive web browser currently down

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....

March 29, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA staff deliver training for Earth Observation scientists

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....

March 19, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive access via data.ceda.ac.uk currently down

We are currently experiencing difficulties with network issues. This is affecting some of our services, including access to the archive via data....

March 18, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive partial storage issues update

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....

March 15, 2019 • 2 min read • news

Update re. offline /group_workspaces/jasmin4/

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....

March 14, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Update re. offline /group_workspaces/jasmin4/ - please check your code!

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....

March 13, 2019 • 1 min read • news

/group_workspaces/jasmin4/ volumes are currently offline

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....

March 5, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Data catalogue service restored

The CEDA data catalogue service issue identified this morning has been resolved and the catalogue search and record listings is working once again....

March 5, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive catalogue search presently down.

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....

March 1, 2019 • 2 min read • news

Exciting changes planned for upcoming JASMIN events

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!...

February 26, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive partial storage issues update

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....

February 15, 2019 • 4 min read • news

UK weather station records now freely available to all MIDAS Open

Measurements of historical weather variables across the UK are now freely available to all, through the Met Office “MIDAS Open” dataset held at CEDA....

February 12, 2019 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Archive partial storage issues affecting CMIP5, MSG and other datasets

A part of the CEDA Archive is presently down affecting the following datasets: parts of the CMIP5 archive parts of the MSG datasets...

February 7, 2019 • 5 min read • news

Call for CEDA Impact Stories why this is essential and how you can help!

What are impact stories and why are they essential? Firstly - let’s explain what we mean by ‘impact stories’....

January 29, 2019 • 2 min read • news

Latests improvements to the CEDA Catalogue

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....

January 25, 2019 • 2 min read • news

Helping you work effectively with new JASMIN storage

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....

January 24, 2019 • 1 min read • news

Data Catalogue Service back up.

The CEDA Data Catalogue service is available once again following the completion of our move to using HTTPS for this service....

January 10, 2019 • 1 min read • news

UKRI Cloud Workshop - free registration now open

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....

December 21, 2018 • 3 min read • news

Prestigious ESGF awards for CEDA staff members

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....

December 17, 2018 • 3 min read • news

NEW DATASET LAUNCHED HadUK-Grid

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....

November 15, 2018 • 3 min read • news

Important use of JASMIN storage - ALL USERS PLEASE READ

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....

October 31, 2018 • 1 min read • news

Goodbye JASMIN1, hello JASMIN4

After six years of faithful service, the last 4.5 Petabytes of JASMIN1 Panasis storage has undergone its final secure erase, ready for decommissioning....

September 13, 2018 • 1 min read • news

Two graduate vacancies now open. Closing date 28th October

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....

September 10, 2018 • 4 min read • news

CEDA dataset expertise informs Google’s new dataset search

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....

July 23, 2018 • 2 min read • news

CEDA Archive Support for ERA5 use

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....

July 23, 2018 • 3 min read • news

Experiencing life at CEDA a Year 12's placement week

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… Hi I’m Annsha and I’ve spent this week at CEDA doing work experience....

July 17, 2018 • 3 min read • news

Help us make an impact! One survey, six focus groups and an MSc project how we plan to better evidence our impact

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....

July 16, 2018 • 2 min read • news

Third annual JASMIN conference presentations available now!

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....

May 31, 2018 • 5 min read • news

Global gathering of data scientists at PV2018 - view their presentations now!

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....

May 24, 2018 • 1 min read • news

New CEDA Privacy and Cookie Notice and Archive Terms and Conditions

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....

May 3, 2018 • 3 min read • news

CEDA Data Catalogue - new, improved search functions!

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!...

April 13, 2018 • 2 min read • news

Getting started with JASMIN - watch the webinar now!

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....

April 3, 2018 • 1 min read • news

CEDA WPS Service presently down

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....

March 9, 2018 • 1 min read • news

CEDA archive and websites unavailable on 14th March due to JASMIN upgrade

As you may be aware, JASMIN is undergoing a massive upgrade (more info here) to double it’s storage capability to 44PB....

March 8, 2018 • 4 min read • news

Upgrade to UK environmental science supercomputer will make it twice as capable

A major upgrade is being made to double the storage available on JASMIN; a globally unique data intensive supercomputer for environmental science....

March 8, 2018 • 3 min read • news

Celebrating International Women’s Day at CEDA

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....

March 7, 2018 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN upgrade reminders and further information

JASMIN Unavailability Wednesday 14th March (see previous email) Changes to Group Workspace Storage (see previous email) Changes to /work/scratch storage....

February 23, 2018 • 2 min read • news

JASMIN UPGRADE 1) Unavailability 14th March 2) GWS changes

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....

December 19, 2017 • 2 min read • news

ESGF award for CEDA staff providing data access for the climate modelling community

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....

November 30, 2017 • 2 min read • news

UnEarthed a science showcase with ice beards, pledges and grains of rice

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....

November 22, 2017 • 1 min read • news

Sentinel data in CEDA archive latest news

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)....

November 13, 2017 • 2 min read • news

NEW - CEDA Data Catalogue beta Search + archive-catalogue links

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....

November 9, 2017 • 1 min read • news

Advanced Warning CEDA and JASMIN service interruption for system update Tue 14th Nov 7-9am

System updates will be applied to CEDA and JASMIN servers on Tuesday 14th November between 7-9 am as part of routine maintenance....

November 3, 2017 • 4 min read • news

Reducing pest risk through collaboration; PRISE visit to RAL Space

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....

October 12, 2017 • 1 min read • news

1) Storage update- GWS and Dataset access 2) ET interruption 17 Oct now postponed

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”....

August 22, 2017 • 1 min read • news

CEDA services unsupported over bank holiday weekend

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....

August 15, 2017 • 1 min read • news

Disruption to CEDA search services on 15th/16th August

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....

July 25, 2017 • 1 min read • news

Brief downtime for CEDA data browser between 4-5pm on 27th July

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....

July 20, 2017 • 3 min read • news

Sentinel data weighs in at a 'horn'-ormous 2PB

The CEDA archive now contains more than 2 Petabytes of Sentinel data comprised of a whopping ~1.6 million individual Sentinel data products....

July 13, 2017 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN and CEDA services upgrade update most now back online

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....

July 11, 2017 • 1 min read • news

Reminder CEDA and JASMIN storage downtime 12-13 July | No new job submission at present

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....

July 11, 2017 • 1 min read • news

Update to JASMIN Analysis Platform software across LOTUS hosts

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....

July 4, 2017 • 2 min read • news

New Map Application launched ! CEDA Satellite Data Finder

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....

June 23, 2017 • 1 min read • news

CEDA ESGF nodes back in service

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...

June 23, 2017 • 1 min read • news

EUFAR Flight Finder & Sentinel OpenSearch back in service

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....

June 23, 2017 • 1 min read • news

Temporary disruption to ESGF, EUFAR Flight Finder and Sentinel OpenSearch services

Due to a software problem, there has been some disruption to a number of CEDA services yesterday (Thursday 22nd June)....

April 21, 2017 • 1 min read • news

New dataset ESA Sentinel 3A SLSTR data

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....

April 20, 2017 • 1 min read • news

CEDA CMIP5 data holdings now catalogued and searchable!

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....

March 10, 2017 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Data Catalogue updated!

The CEDA Data Catalogue was updated lastnight to version 1.1.3. The latest version includes: Links to download stats for each dataset record....

March 9, 2017 • 2 min read • news

Happy Birthday JASMIN!

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....

March 2, 2017 • 1 min read • news

New CEDA download service successfully launched

Yesterday CEDA rolled out a new, improved web download service, paving the way for improved usability of the CEDA Archive: available now at:...

February 14, 2017 • 1 min read • news

CRU TS 3.24.01 now available

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....

February 10, 2017 • 1 min read • news

CEDA WPS unavailable today from 11am

The CEDA Web Processing Service (CEDA WPS) will be off-line from 11am today to allow for important software updates to be installed....

February 8, 2017 • 1 min read • news

NEW - JASMIN Accounts Portal launched!

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....

February 6, 2017 • 2 min read • news

8th February new JASMIN accounts portal impact on CEDA and JASMIN services

The new JASMIN Account Portal launch will be completed on 8th February and will require the myCEDA service to be offline for the inital stages of the migration....

January 27, 2017 • 3 min read • news

New JASMIN accounts portal planned for 8 Feb 2017

New JASMIN Accounts Portal: 8th February 2017 CEDA has been developing a new portal for JASMIN/CEMS users to manage their accounts....

January 25, 2017 • 1 min read • news

CRU TS 3.24 WITHDRAWN

The CRU TS 3.24 data has been withdrawn by the data provider due to known errors in the gridded output....

January 6, 2017 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN OPNs service interruption Tuesday 10th Jan 0700-0900

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 :...

November 14, 2016 • 1 min read • news

Issues with CEDA Services this morning

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....

November 3, 2016 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Data Catalogue service reboot 0830 Fri 4th Nov

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....

October 19, 2016 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Trajectory Service present state and retirement

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....

October 11, 2016 • 2 min read • news

Tips to avoid problems accessing JASMIN/CEMS services

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 :...

October 11, 2016 • 1 min read • news

CEDA OpenDAP service login problems

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....

October 7, 2016 • 3 min read • news

Network maintenance completed successfully!

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....

September 29, 2016 • 1 min read • news

CEDA helpdesk changes - new service and new docs site

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....

September 28, 2016 • 1 min read • news

CEDA and JASMIN downtime Wednesday 5th October 2016

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....

September 15, 2016 • 1 min read • news

JASMIN/CEMS bcopy service temporarily unavailable

We are aware of a problem with the ‘bcopy’ service (used to copy data efficiently between disk areas within JASMIN/CEMS)....

August 1, 2016 • 1 min read • news

CEDA 2014-15 Annual Report Released

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....

July 29, 2016 • 4 min read • news

High-flying Year in Industry Student Kate Winfield’s time with CEDA

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....

July 5, 2016 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Data Commenting Tool Launch at RMetSoc 2016 Conference

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....

June 29, 2016 • 1 min read • news

UKSSDC website and services partially restored

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....

March 18, 2016 • 3 min read • news

CEDA staff data curation takes off (literally!)

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....

February 19, 2016 • 1 min read • news

Change to ECMWF-ERA data usage licencing

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....

January 13, 2016 • 1 min read • news

CEDA site and services back up, but remain at risk

The earlier networking issues affecting CEDA websites and services have been resolved, but additional ongoing issues are still in progress....

September 29, 2015 • 1 min read • news

Dr. Sarah Callaghan appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal

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....

September 10, 2015 • 1 min read • news

New dataset Met Office LIDARNET Ceilometers network cloud base and backscatter data

Met Office Logo 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....

July 14, 2015 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Web Processing Service (CEDA WPS) back up

The CEDA Web Processing Service is now fully operational again. Apologies for the interuption that this may have caused. Regards,...

June 25, 2015 • 1 min read • news

Dataset Showcase CRU Climate Data

CRU Logo 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....

June 17, 2015 • 1 min read • news

CEDA ESGF nodes unavailable

ESGF data and index nodes provided by CEDA are presently offline while we investigate a problem. Apologies for the inconvenience caused....

October 24, 2014 • 2 min read • news

BADC celebrates 20 years

The Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) celebrated 20 years of operation for the British Atmospheric Data Centre this week....

October 3, 2014 • 1 min read • news

Access to the Met Office MASS archive on JASMIN goes live!

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....

September 30, 2014 • 5 min read • news

New data catalogue now available

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....

September 29, 2014 • 1 min read • news

New myCEDA service now live

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....

September 3, 2014 • 1 min read • news

Global Radiosonde data updates not available since August 2013 - alternative data source available

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....

August 15, 2014 • 2 min read • news

Results of the CEMS/NCEO User Survey and New Earth Observation Datasets

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!...

August 15, 2014 • 1 min read • news

CEDA OpenID for CEMS PyDap service affected

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....

July 22, 2014 • 2 min read • news

Update JASMIN VM disruptions 22/07

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....

June 26, 2014 • 2 min read • news

Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation - fully citable dataset at BADC.

The first publicly available, fully citable atmospheric reanalysis for the planet Mars can now be downloaded from the BADC website! The “Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation” (MACDA) dataset version 1....

April 2, 2014 • 1 min read • news

CEDA ftp service upgraded

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....

January 8, 2014 • 1 min read • news

News article on JASMIN Expansion Phases 2 and 3

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....

November 28, 2013 • 1 min read • news

IDL and MIDL available on the JASMIN analysis servers

We are pleased to announce that IDL and the Met Office IDL Library (MIDL) are now available on the JASMIN scientific analysis servers....

November 14, 2013 • 2 min read • news

CHARMe Project News Datasets annotations a step closer!

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....

October 28, 2013 • 5 min read • news

CEDA's Summer 2013 Student Placements Projects

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....

September 30, 2013 • 3 min read • news

Report Highlights BADC’s Impact

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:...

September 18, 2013 • 1 min read • news

BADC Amateur Weather Data Survey

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:...

July 23, 2013 • 1 min read • news

CMIP5 web-based processing tools launched under the CEDA WPS

CEDA is pleased to announce the release of two new web-based processing tools under the CEDA Web Processing Service (WPS)....

March 22, 2013 • 2 min read • news

Data with DOIs 1st CEDA data paper published!

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....

March 14, 2013 • 2 min read • news

Dedicated light path connects JASMIN-Core and JASMIN-North

Following the deployment of high-performance storage and virtualisation infrastructure at CEDA over the past year, the JASMIN analysis environment is now taking shape....

January 11, 2013 • 1 min read • news

CEDA 2012 Annual Report published

CEDA’s annual report for 2012, covering April 2011 to March 2012 has now been published and is available from the CEDA Document repository....

December 18, 2012 • 1 min read • news

STFC Work Experience Scheme 2013

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....

October 5, 2012 • 4 min read • news

CEDA Summer placements 2012

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....

September 25, 2012 • 1 min read • news

CEDA OpenID service operational again - login to WPS and BADC CMIP5 Gateway restored

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....

August 28, 2012 • 1 min read • news

Global Marine Surface Observations now available from CEDA-BADC

The Met Office MIDAS dataset held at the BADC has been updated to now include global marine surface observation data (e....

August 16, 2012 • 1 min read • news

CEDA data migrations - possible impacts

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....

May 11, 2012 • 1 min read • news

BADC Trajectory Service available again

The BADC trajectory service is available again at http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/community/trajectory/

May 11, 2012 • 1 min read • news

CEDA Dataset catalogue unavailable

The CEDA dataset catalogue and associated search engine are currently unavailable. We are working at restoring access to the catalogue as soon as possible....

May 9, 2012 • 1 min read • news

ESA declares end of mission for Envisat

ESA have issued a news item indicating the end of mission for Envisat. Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April....

May 8, 2012 • 1 min read • news

Full CEDA helpdesk service resumed

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....

April 23, 2012 • 2 min read • news

CEDA at EGU 2012

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....

April 11, 2012 • 1 min read • news

Data from Envisat satellite

ESA have issued a news item indicating loss of communication with the Envisat Satellite. No further news has yet been made available....

April 5, 2012 • 1 min read • news

BADC Trajectory Service now back online

The BADC trajectory service is now available at http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/community/trajectory/

March 23, 2012 • 1 min read • news

BADC Trajectory Service not available

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....

March 22, 2012 • 1 min read • news

BADC/NEODC server back up - archive and services back online

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....

March 22, 2012 • 1 min read • news

BADC/NEODC server down - archive and services affected

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:...

March 19, 2012 • 1 min read • news

CEDA News Feed now available

The Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) runs both the British Atmospheric and NERC Earth Observation data centres - the BADC and NEODC....

March 19, 2012 • 1 min read • news

BADC news feed closed

The BADC news feed has now be replaced by the CEDA news feed.

February 28, 2012 • 1 min read • news

BADC Trajectory Service not available

February 22, 2012 • 1 min read • news

CEDA WPS for MIDAS data extraction back online and fully operational

February 21, 2012 • 1 min read • news

CEDA WPS for MIDAS data extraction currently unavailable

SERVICE PROBLEM: WPS hardware failure Please note that due to a hardware failure the WPS is currently unable to run offline jobs....

February 13, 2012 • 1 min read • news

Advance warning - BADC/NEODC Services at risk 14/2 and 18-19/2

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....

September 29, 2011 • 1 min read • news

BADC Webserver - recovery (continued)

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....

September 20, 2011 • 1 min read • news

BADC Webserver - recovery

The BADC team are continuing to restore services following an attack on our webserver. However, the following services are not currently operational:...

September 15, 2011 • 1 min read • news

BADC Webserver - Static pages up

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....

September 13, 2011 • 1 min read • news

BADC Webserver compromised

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....

August 16, 2011 • 1 min read • news

Server problems - notice of affected datasets

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....

July 21, 2011 • 1 min read • news

Network and server problems - notice of affected datasets

Following problems with network switch on site and system disk problems on one of data servers the following datasets are temporarily unavailable:...

July 7, 2011 • 1 min read • news

ECSN Data Management Workshop 2011 - October, Edinburgh

The National Climate Information Centre (Met Office) are organising a data management workshop in October in Edinburgh. Details available at:...

May 16, 2011 • 2 min read • news

CEDA develops visualisation service for the International Space Innovation Centre.

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....

March 29, 2011 • 1 min read • news

BADC Spring Clean - disk maintenance advance warning

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....

March 29, 2011 • 1 min read • news

Disk maintenance - MetDB, LINK and Met Office Surface datasets affected

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....

March 17, 2011 • 1 min read • news

MIDAS data 2011 updates delayed

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....

March 9, 2011 • 1 min read • news

AATSR Data access resumed

Following repair work to the server holding the AATSR data at the NEODC the AATSR multimission data are once again available through the NEODC...

March 7, 2011 • 1 min read • news

Advance Warning - NEODC Services at risk

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....

March 7, 2011 • 1 min read • news

Advance warning of site maintenance work - BADC services and website at risk

Maintenance work will be taking place on Tuesday 15th March and the weekend of 9th-10th April at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory....

February 23, 2011 • 1 min read • news

AATSR Data unavailable

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....

December 20, 2010 • 1 min read • news

NEODC Closure during Christmas and New Year 2010/11

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....

December 20, 2010 • 1 min read • news

BADC closure between 24th December 2010 and 4th January 2011

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....

November 24, 2010 • 1 min read • news

Public Christmas Lecture The Eyjafjallajokull eruption the science behind the disruption by Pro

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....

November 10, 2010 • 1 min read • news

Advance Warning - NEODC Services Down this weekend

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....

November 10, 2010 • 2 min read • news

2010 User survey launched

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....

October 19, 2010 • 1 min read • news

BADC Website and Services back in operational mode

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....

October 19, 2010 • 2 min read • news

NERC Environmental Data Centres do they meet your needs?

The Earth is relentlessly changing. Tracing and understanding past environmental change plays an important role in the prediction of future environmental change....

October 6, 2010 • 1 min read • news

Access to BADC Services at risk this weekend 9th/10th October

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....

September 29, 2010 • 1 min read • news

FTP Service now stable

Following the recent problems experienced by BADC users with our FTP server, the BADC Infrastructure Team has now successfully stabilized the service....

September 15, 2010 • 1 min read • news

FTP problems at BADC

We are currently encountering problems with our FTP server. The FTP service is reponding interminently, more often than not resulting in timing out sessions....

September 6, 2010 • 1 min read • news

BADC Website and Services back to normal

Technical problems which affected FTP login to the BADC/NEODC archive and access to the Data Extractor Service have now been resolved....

August 31, 2010 • 1 min read • news

FTP login and Access to Data Extractor Service currently at risk

Technical problems with one of our servers is affecting FTP login to the BADC/NEODC archive and access to the Data Extractor Service....

August 20, 2010 • 1 min read • news

Numerical Model Data Scientist Vacancy

The Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) at STFC Rutherford Appleford Laboratory is seeking a Numerical Model Data Scientist. Further details available at:...

August 4, 2010 • 1 min read • news

BADC Webserver and website down this afternoon

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....

July 30, 2010 • 1 min read • news

BADC Trajectory Service re-instated

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....

July 29, 2010 • 1 min read • news

BADC Trajectory Service temporarily not available

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....

July 15, 2010 • 1 min read • news

BADC Trajectory Service back online

The BADC Trajectory Service is now fully operational again at: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/community/trajectory/ BADC Helpdesk 15th July 2010

July 15, 2010 • 1 min read • news

The Met Office wind-profiler dataset updated with records for 2005-2009

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....

July 12, 2010 • 1 min read • news

BADC Trajectory Service temporarily unavailable

We regret that the BADC Trajectory Service is not currently available. While trajectory runs can apparently be successfully submitted, they don’t actually run....

June 18, 2010 • 1 min read • news

Access to My requested data area restored and Data Extractor service fully operational again

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....

June 17, 2010 • 1 min read • news

My requested data area and Data Extractor service not available

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....

May 19, 2010 • 1 min read • news

Site Proxy server problem fixed - Access to restricted data restored

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....

May 13, 2010 • 1 min read • news

New HIRDLS level 2 Version 5.00 data now at BADC

A new version of the HIRDLS level 2 data - version 5.00 - has been released and is now available at the BADC....

May 6, 2010 • 2 min read • news

BADC and NEODC supports the investigations into the Icelandic Volcano

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....