On February 1st the British Atmospheric Data Centre took over the hosting of the IPCC Data Distribution Centre Website . The DDC facilitates the timely distribution of a consistent set of up-to-date scenarios of changes in climate and related environmental and socio-economic factors for use in climate impacts assessments. ...

A power outage is planned at the BADC this Weekend (27th/28th January 2007), for unavoidable site power maintenance. Power will be off for a maximum of 5 hours on both Saturday and Sunday which will affect some BADC servers. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience. ...

The new MIDAS weather station search engine is available for use on the BADC website. Stations can be searched by name, location, postcode, county or source id and also through an interactive map to give details of data type and availability. ...

The Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory (WAO) is part of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). It is situated on the north Norfolk coast and is a world class facility for fundamental research, background atmospheric monitoring and teaching purposes. WAO operates a range of chemistry and meteorological instruments in its monitoring programme. Data from 2002 onwards is now available at the BADC. ...

Job Opportunities at the BADC ===================================================== Two posts are currently being advertised, with application deadlines of 2nd January 2007. Please see [http://www.jobs.ac.uk](http://www.jobs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.cgi?keywords=clrc&bool=AND&referer=home). BADC Support 11th December 2006

Please check that your email address and other details are correct through your My BADC webpage and update as necessary. ...

GERB data is now available from the BADC. ========================================= Data from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument is now available at the BADC. The GERB instrument makes accurate measurements of the Earth Radiation Budget. It is specifically designed to be mounted on a geostationary satellite and is carried onboard the Meteosat Second Generation satellite operated by EUMETSAT. It has been produced by a European consortium led by the UK together with Belgium, Italy, and EUMETSAT, with funding from national agencies. The first GERB instrument, GERB-2, was onboard Meteosat Second Generation satellite, MSG-1, and began transmitting data on 12th December 2002. GERB-1 was launched onboard MSG-2 on 21st December 2005 and is now operational. The BADC GERB archive contains the latest version or "Edition" of data released for distribution by the GERB team. The initial data release contains a few weeks of Edition data from 25 March to 15 August 2006. Further data will be archived as it is reprocessed and becomes available. This data is available to academic researchers. See the web page for further details. BADC Support 05th October 2006

The ISAMS level 2 dataset is now publicly available, so no need to apply for access to use the data. ...

Ongoing Server Problems ======================= Over recent weeks we have been suffering a series of server problems, many of which are believed to be delayed consequences of a severe air conditioning failure in one of our machine rooms in July. We will continue to deal with problems as quickly as we can. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. BADC Support 21st August