The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is an open source international collaboration that provides a robust, distributed data and computation platform in support of the international climate modelling community. The federation enables access to Peta-scale scientific data for the purpose of supporting large collaborative projects such as CMIP6 the 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. ESGF is used by scientists around the world to access data, such as CMIP, to study the changing climate. Data from ESGF are ultimately used by government bodies for policy making decisions both at the national and international level such as the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). ...

A stand at NERC’s public engagement event, called UnEarthed , was recently run by CEDA (Centre for Environmental Data Analysis*) staff. UnEarthed was a showcase of the diverse environmental science undertaken by NERC scientists, ranging from decaying Puffins, making clouds in a bottle, to virtual reality floods. The event was free to attend at Dynamic Earth, in Edinburgh, and nearly ~7000 people visited over 4 days. ...

CEDA have filled the archive space allocated for the Sentinel mirror data archive. The recent power outage has further delayed our efforts of moving older data to the Near Line Archive (NLA). This allows archive space to be allocated to new and gapfilling data. ...

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. ...

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

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. ...

A further update on Tuesday’s storage issues: Storage systems affected by the issues earlier this week have now been restored to their original management configuration so no longer need to be considered “at risk”. However there is still some high load in that part of the system which may still result in a slow response for the time being. Affected services/data/volumes are: ...

CEDA services 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. ...

 On Monday 14th August we began a software upgrade to services underpinning CEDA’s geo-search services that has proved to be more complicated than anticipated. As a result, we will need to continue working on the services both today and tomorrow (15th-16th August). The work impacts the following services: ...