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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 (38.7 °C). Whilst many are enjoying the unusually non-rainy British weather, it doesn’t come without costs. Extreme weather events, such as heatwaves and flash flooding, are expected to increase in severity and frequency as our climate continues to change. Extreme weather can adversely affect the way we live our lives. Loss of food production, damaging wildlife habitats, and endangering human life are just a few impacts associated with climate change. Predicting global climate change is complex and requires vast amounts of data processing capabilities. Steps must be taken to improve the accuracy of future climate models. That’s where JASMIN - a data intensive supercomputer - comes in. ...
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. There were nearly double the number of hosts to update this time, as we transition from RHEL6 to CentOS7 operating systems, so this took longer than usual.
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