News
May 6, 2008 • 1 min read • News
BADC service disruption due to site power glitch
On Tuesday 6th May, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site, where the BADC is located, experienced a major network outage. As a result of this, BADC and NEODC services were affected. The network outage was caused by a power glitch which took out a major networking wiring room and then had an avalanche effect across site.
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March 11, 2008 • 1 min read • News
Advanced Notice. Site Firewall Updated BADC Services Affected
The site firewall for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, behind which the BADC operates, will be updated Tuesday 18th March between 7.30 am and 8.00 am. There will be no external access to and from BADC during this period. Services will remain at risk for the remainder of the morning.
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February 15, 2008 • 2 min read • News
Planned Downtime this weekend. MIDAS data Updated. Paperless Forms System
Please note that due to unavoidable electrical work the BADC system will be offline for several hours on Saturday morning 16th February 2008. It is itended that the system will be up and running again by lunchtime.
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December 18, 2007 • 1 min read • News
Problems with ECMWF Operational Total Cloud Cover Data and BADC Helpdesk Christmas closure
The ECMWF has announced that due to some fields not initialising properly all analysis total cloud cover data within the ECMWF operational data are unreliable. Therefore, the BADC has removed such data from its ECWMF operational data archive and is writing to inform present users of the ECMWF operational data of this.
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