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. The following tatement comes from Paul van der Linden, the CHARMe project communicator, highlighting the progress to deliver this exciting new feature for data centre users: ...

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. ...

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: ...

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: ...

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

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 . Papers in data journals are fully citable articles detailing the data as a valuable scientific resource in its own right – giving due academic credit to the data producers through a fully peer reviewed process. These papers include details about the dataset itself, how and why it was created and suggests further uses for the data. ...

Following the deployment of high-performance storage and virtualisation infrastructure at CEDA over the past year, the JASMIN analysis environment is now taking shape. In addition to the JASMIN Core deployment at CEDA (RAL), the wider JASMIN network consists of hardware at Reading, Bristol and Leeds Universities, linking key atmospheric research groups across the UK. A significant milestone was achieved recently with the connection of a dedicated 1Gb light path between the JASMIN Core and JASMIN North nodes. ...

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

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. The work experience scheme is presently open for applications for the 2013 work experience programme, with placements available between April and August 2013. Interested students are invited to apply via the STFC website . ...