News
August 16, 2011 • 1 min read • News
Server problems - notice of affected datasets
Following system disk problems, the following datasets are temporarily unavailable:
RAPID Met Office metDB Met Office land surface data (old dataset, now superseded by MIDAS dataset which is still available) We are working at restoring access to the affected datasets as soon as possible.
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May 16, 2011 • 2 min read • News
CEDA develops visualisation service for the International Space Innovation Centre.
Coinciding with the launch the International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell Oxford, STFC RAL’s Centre for Environmental Data Archival deployed a new data visualisation service for Earth Observation data.
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March 29, 2011 • 1 min read • News
BADC Spring Clean - disk maintenance advance warning
Following installation of improved air conditioning units within our server room BADC servers will be routinely taken down for required maintenance to ensure optimum operation. This is required to address some outstanding, non-critical issues as well as some additional disk issues that have recently developed.
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March 29, 2011 • 1 min read • News
Disk maintenance - MetDB, LINK and Met Office Surface datasets affected
Issues with the disks holding the MetDB, Link and Met Office Surface station data (MIDAS data are not affected) require that these disks are taken down for maintenance. These disks will be taken down this morning (Tuesday 29th March). At present we do not have a resolution time, but we will issue a fresh news item once these data are re-instated into the archive.
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March 17, 2011 • 1 min read • News
MIDAS data 2011 updates delayed
The MIDAS data at the BADC is currently updated to December 2010. Unfortunately, we are experiencing difficulties extracting the 2011 data updates from the Met Office archive. In addition to this, we have learned that the order of elements in some of the MIDAS tables have been altered slightly which will result in a mismatch between the data files we currently hold and the future data updates.
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March 7, 2011 • 1 min read • News
Advance Warning - NEODC Services at risk
Advance Warning - BADC Services at risk 15/3 and 9-10/4 Maintenance work will be taking place on Tuesday 15th March and the weekend of 9th-10th April at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. During this time BADC and NEODC website and services will be at risk or unavailable.
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