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JASMIN Science Case (2016)
Full text linkJASMIN exists to provide the UK environmental sciences the compute facility they need to deliver cost-effective world class science and impact from the exploitation of data. A £17M investment is needed for the next generation of JASMIN, to maintain the UK’s scientific and competitive edge, facilitating the exploitation of world class environmental science to meet the global societal challenges of the future. Such an investment would build on international leadership and would support:
• The merging of extremely large environmental data sets with the latest earth system models: building downstream growth in space-based environmental services; and underpinning international collaborations.
• The transformation of data into information products and services; JASMIN provides the foundation for the UK environmental information ecosystem: investment will provide greater access to knowledge for a range of users.
• Enabling researchers to better support government usage of environmental hazard data resulting in large-scale societal benefit e.g. development of earthquake monitoring systems.
• The next generation of earth observation and environmental simulation, including for the next phase of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) global model intercomparison project (CMIP6) .
The updated JASMIN will deliver cost-effective, world class environmental science, exploiting data for societal benefit. It will be a cutting-edge novel computational environment, ensuring highly-skilled people are retained in the UK from systems engineers to environmental data users, from data scientists and analysts to mathematicians
HadCRUT4 Data Format Description v1
Full text linkThis document provides data format information for the Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) and University of East Anglia (UEA) HadCRUT4 data. The document contains a file description which describes the ensemble filenaming convention, details of the NetCDF file structure, the variable abbreviations and corresponding names and the global attributes.
The document also describes the ensemble median and its uncertainty information
NERC MSTRF Sky-Camera Time-Lapse Video for 2007-07-16 18:40 UTC.
No full textA time-lapse video showing a rapidly-growing Towering Cumulus cloud, which develops an Anvil. This video has been created from images taken by the NERC MST Radar Facility's Sky-Camera, which is located near Aberystwyth in West Wales. The images are freely available, under an Open (UK) Government License, from http://tinyurl.com/nerc-mstrf-sky-camera/. For an explanation of the atmospheric phenomena that can be seen, download the resource available at http://cedadocs.badc.rl.ac.uk/1259/
HadISD data format description
Full text linkThis document provides data format information for the Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) HadISD data. The document contains information on the NetCDF structure, the variable abbreviations and corresponding names and the global attributes
STFC Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) Annual Report 2015 (April 2014-March 2015)
Full text linkThe mission 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.
CEDA was established by the amalgamation of the activities of two of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) designated data centres: the British Atmospheric Data Centre, and the NERC Earth Observation Data Centre, and consolidated annual reports have been produced since 2009. This annual report presents key statistics for the year past (2014- 2015) as well as a series of snapshots of activity, expressed as short highlights and short reports. Key data centre metrics are also provided.
This year was characterised by the major upgrade in JASMIN capability(JASMIN being the data intensive supercomputer which provides the fabric upon which CEDA and the CEDA services are delivered). As in the advent of JASMIN itself, in early 2012, this has had a major impact both on what CEDA can do, and the services that can be offered to the community — and the uptake in the community is clear to see in the statistics presented here. The consequences for CEDA itself are still being worked through, but it is clear that there is a significant expansion in the role of CEDA staff whose expertise must now embrace support for “big data” tools and algorithms by archive and other users on JASMIN. Notwithstanding this new role, as in previous years, CEDA staff are involved in nearly all the major atmospheric science programmes underway in the UK, in many earth observation programmes, and in a wide range of informatics activities.
Over the years we have reported our key partnerships, and as before, these revolve around our neighbours on the Harwell site (including the Satellite Applications Catapult, with whom we share delivery of the facility for Climate and Environmental Monitoring from Space, CEMS), the European Network for Earth Simulation (with whom we share the delivery of the European component of the Earth System Grid Federation), and many other project collaborators
Kate Winfield Year In Industry Contribution to Business Award presentation
Full text linkSeries of presentation materials for Kate Winfield's Year In Industry Contribution to Business Award entry. The content covers work improving the discoverability, browseability and accessibility of the CEDA archives through review and enhancement of content in the CEDA data catalogue and data curation activities
NERC-ARSF-DAN Thermal Hyperspectral data quality report 2015
Full text linkThe Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) collect thermal data with a Specim AISA Owl instrument, operated since 2014. The Owl instrument covers wavelengths from 7.6 – 12.3 μm. A pair of black bodies, which are mechanically moved in front of the sensor lens one by one, are used for calibration. This data quality report describes issues for thermal data acquired with the Owl instrument that should be considered when further processing any ARSF datasets acquired in 2015
RAL IASI MetOp-A TIR Methane Dataset v1.0 User Guide
Full text linkThis document is the Product User Guide for the RAL IASI MetOp-A TIR methane v1.0 dataset. It provides users of the dataset with practical information on the file format and content as well as advice on how to correctly interpret the dat
HadISDH Update Document version 2.1.0.2015p
Full text linkUpdate notes for version 2.1.0.2015p. The HadISDH.v2.1.0.2015p contains all 12 months of 2015, a minor code change to the homogenisation software and some historical changes to the data due to source archive changes and minor changes to applied homogeneity adjustments due to sensitivity to both the historical changes and additional 12 months of data. More information can be found in the HadISDH.v2.1.0.2015p_Update_Document.pdf (LINK) and at
http://hadisdh.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/2015-update-for-hadisdh2102015p.htm