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Running the Met Office NAME dispersion model on the JASMIN computing platform: A new community tool and trajectory service
Full text linkThe Met Office has traditionally distributed the NAME atmospheric dispersion model and supporting meteorological data to a number of external organisations. CEDA’s new JASMIN platform enables consolidation of resources by providing a centralised and supported NAME community service. Wider exploitation of the model is planned along with a web-tool for running historic forward and backward trajectories and a dataset of NAME outputs including trajectory plots. NCAS scientists can exploit this service for large scale batch runs supporting field campaigns as well as individual research applications
Minutes of the 41st Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility Experimenters' Meeting
Full text linkMeeting date: Thursday 10th July 2008
Meeting location: The Cosener's House, Abingdon, UK
Meeting agenda:
1) Minutes of the previous meeting
2) Matters arising
3) Funding Renewal
4) Site Report
5) NERC Instrument Report
6) Guest Instrument Report
7) Science and Technical Presentations
8) Any Other Busines
Getting credit for your data: data citation and publication
Full text linkA question and answer poster discussing data citation and publicatio
Science Support: The Building Blocks of Active Data Curation
Full text linkWhile the scientific method is built on reproducibility and transparency, and results are published in peer reviewed literature, we have come to the digital age of very large datasets (now of the order of petabytes and soon exabytes) which cannot be published in the traditional way. To preserve reproducibility and transparency, active curation is necessary to keep and protect the information in the long term, and “science support” activities provide the building blocks for active data curation.
With the explosive growth of data in all fields in recent years, there is a pressing urge for data centres to now provide adequate services to ensure long-term preservation and digital curation of project data outputs, however complex those may be. Science support provides advice and support to science projects on data and information management, from file formats through to general data management awareness. Another purpose of science support is to raise awareness in the science community of data and metadata standards and best practice, engendering a culture where data outputs are seen as valued assets. At the heart of Science support is the Data Management Plan (DMP) which sets out a coherent approach to data issues pertaining to the data generating project. It provides an agreed record of the data management needs and issues within the project. The DMP is agreed upon with project investigators to ensure that a high quality documented data archive is created. It includes conditions of use and deposit to clearly express the ownership, responsibilities and rights associated with the data. Project specific needs are also identified for data processing, visualization tools and data sharing services.
As part of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), the Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) fulfills this science support role of facilitating atmospheric and Earth observation data generating projects to ensure successful management of the data and accompanying information for reuse and repurpose. Specific examples at CEDA include science support provided to FAAM (Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements) aircraft campaigns and large-scale modelling projects such as UPSCALE, the largest ever PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) computational project, dependent on CEDA to provide the high-performance storage, transfer capability and data analysis environment on the “super-data-cluster” JASMIN.
The impact of science support on scientific research is conspicuous: better documented datasets with an increasing collection of metadata associated to the archived data, ease of data sharing with the use of standards in formats and metadata and data citation. These establish a high-quality of data management ensuring long-term preservation and enabling re-use by peer scientists which ultimately leads to faster paced progress in science
The CEDA archive: Data, Services and Infrastructure
Full text linkThe purpose of the Centre for Environmental Archival (CEDA) is to deliver long term curation of scientifically important environmental data at the same time as facilitating the use of data by the environmental science community. Nearly 2Pb of data are available from the archive.
These data are from a number of sources, including satellites, ground based, in-situ and numerical models, and CEDA has data from a number of major research projects including CMIP5, RAPID-WATCH and OCEANS2025. CEDA are also providing a range of services via the JASMIN and CEMS systems in order to make these data more easily accessible to users, and to help them face the 'big data' challenges which are now here.
CEDA are also deeply involved in a number of EU data infrasturcture projects (such as IS-ENES), the development of metadata standards (such as the cf-conventions), and quality control for EU data (via the CHARMe project)
Minutes of the 42nd Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility Experimenters' Meeting
Full text linkMeeting date: Thursday 29th January 2009;
Meeting location: The Cosener's House, Abingdon, UK;
Meeting agenda:
1) Minutes of the previous meeting
2) Matters arising
3) Facility Report
4) NERC Instrument Report
5) Guest Instrument Report
6) Science and Technical Presentations
7) Any Other Busines
BADC User Statistics Report 2013
Full text linkThe British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) came into existence in 1994 to respond to the needs of the Natural Environmental Research Council’s (NERC) desire for a dedicated UK data centre for atmospheric research. Originally the Geophysical Data Facility (GDF), operated by the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), served less than 200 registered users, from which the BADC’s registered user community has now grown to over 22,500 users. During the intervening period the BADC archive has grown to over 1 Pb. of accessible online data and was amalgamated with the NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) in 2005 to form the Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA).
This report presents details of the current active user base with a historical review where suitable information was available to the author. The primary sources of information for this review were the user database maintained by CEDA, HTTP and FTP download logs and BADC website access logs.
It is hoped that this historical review will help to provide insights into the BADC user community to enable CEDA to continue to provide improved user services primarily targeted towards its core user community, while also enabling support for an ever diversifying user community
The Receiver Independent Exchange Format (RINEX) Version 3.02
Full text linkDocumentation about RINEX formatting
Research Data Overview
Full text linkA step by step guide through the research data lifecycle, data set creation, big data vs long-tail, metadata, data centres/data repositorie
Minutes of the 44th Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility Experimenters' Meeting
Full text linkMeeting date: Thursday 21st January 2010;
Meeting location: The Cosener's House, Abingdon, UK;
Meeting agenda:
1) Minutes of the previous meeting
2) Matters arising
3) Facility Report
4) NERC Instrument Report
5) Guest Instrument Report
6) Science and Technical Presentations
7) Any Other Busines