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

There is a problem with the network connecting these systems to the tape system, which is being addressed urgently. Until the problem is fixed, data can be registered for ingestion but will not be sent to tape until the problem is fixed. Likewise, any retrieval requests submitted are likely to fail. ...

As previously announced, the LSF job management system used for JASMIN’s LOTUS batch processing cluster, will be upgraded tomorrow (Thursday 27th June) with LOTUS unavailable for the whole day. This involves migrating the LSF master to new hardware and upgrading the LSF software version. Queues will be closed as of the evening of Wednesday 26th June after which it will not be possible to submit new jobs until after the work has completed. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Today, TV meteorologists are raising awareness about climate change by ‘showing their stripes’ on their live forecasts. The freely available striped climate graphics are being shared on TV and Twitter to highlight rising temperatures in countries across the globe. This campaign is led by Professor Ed Hawkins ( NCAS , University of Reading) who used HadUK-Grid data to create the UK climate graphics. This data is freely available to download from the CEDA Archive. ...

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. ...

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

CEDA and NCAS scientists have been busy documenting the experiments that will be run by climate models all over the world for the next big Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) . Their paper about the methodology they used to describe the CMIP6 experiments was published in GMD Discussions on Wednesday. ...