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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. Thanks to the efforts of the MIDAS Open team at the Met Office we’ve now published an updated version of MIDAS Open, bringing in new data for 2018 and updates for some existing years too. Though aimed at being of interest to everyone, we anticipate these new data will be particularly useful for service providers or members of the public who have previously been unable to use the restricted MIDAS dataset.
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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. Imagine trying to measure trends across thousands of different species and millions of datapoints, with biases in the data thrown in for added complexity… but that’s exactly what scientists have now done. The most comprehensive SoN report has now been completed with the help of JASMIN - our globally unique petascale analysis facility for data-intensive environmental science. Researchers relying on JASMIN for their data analysis contributed information to the SoN report, including several wildlife groups that had previously been impossible to analyse.
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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.
While the process should be transparent, there is a small risk of individual retrievals being disrupted or delayed, so users are advised to check that any retrievals have completed properly during this period.
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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. If your VMs are going to be affected, you have been already notified about the potential disruption, and you need to take no further action. The disruption will happen in an ad-hoc manner during the day and it will last an expected maximum of 5 minutes per case.
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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.
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