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

Recent Server Problems at BADC Are Now Resolved ===================================================== The BADC FTP server is now running again following a few intermittent problems since the end of July. Apologies for the inconvenience. BADC Support 10th August 2006

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

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). ...

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. ...

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. ...

Images from the EUMETSAT Meteosat Second Generation (MSG1) satellite (renamed Meteosat 8) obtained from the Met Office are now archived at the BADC. These include: ...