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July 25, 2006 • 1 min read • News
FTP server problems
Recent Server Problems at BADC Are Now Being Resolved ===================================================== On Friday 21st July the BADC suffered a hardware failure which affected FTP services. The hardware has been fixed and most related issues have been resolved, so service is returning to normal. There remains an issue with the incoming FTP directories, from which data was lost. If you submitted data which you fear was lost, please check the archive and contact BADC if you find a problem. At the time of writing, access to the incoming directories has not been fully restored, but this should follow soon. BADC Support 25th July 2006
July 5, 2006 • 1 min read • News
Latest Portable Unified Model Software from the BADC
The Met Office Portable Unified Model (PUM) software version 6.1 is now available from the BADC. Access must be granted separately for each version, so you should apply for access following the link on the dataset webpage, under ‘Restricted Source Code’. See http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/pum/ . The code itself is located in the software directory of the PUM dataset directory (/badc/ukmo-pum/software).
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June 27, 2006 • 1 min read • News
New surface data dataset available at the BADC
A new BADC dataset to replace the UKMO surface dataset, containing both UK and global measurements is now available for users registered to use the UKMO surface data. The data are stored in yearly files for extraction by data type. Data is available from 1853 to date.
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June 14, 2006 • 1 min read • News
Termination of Meteosat-7 0 deg longitude service
EUMETSAT has announced the termination of satellite image transmission from Meteosat 7 from 0o longitude as of 0900 UTC on 14th June 2006. This ends the provision of 0o longitude services from the first generation of Meteosat. An archive of past images is still publicly available at the BADC extending back to November 1999.
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February 14, 2006 • 0 min read • News
Server Problems at the BADC
January 19, 2006 • 0 min read • News
No more real time Earth Probe TOMS data
October 25, 2005 • 1 min read • News
Additional forecast fields available in ERA-40 dataset
We have recently added some additional forecast fields available to the ERA-40 dataset held at the BADC. Due to user demand additional single/surface level forecasts have been extracted as follows in the ERA-40 archive:
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