Due to required maintenance on the server hosting the AATSR data held at the NEODC these data will be unavailable for the next few days. Once the repairs have been completed these data will be made available again and a news item will be posted. ...

The NEODC helpdesk will be unavailable from Friday 24th December 2010 to Tuesday 4th January 2011. All queries received in this period will be answered as soon as possible on our return. ...

The BADC helpdesk will be unavailable from Friday 24th December 2010 to 4th January 2011. All queries received in this period will be answered as soon as possible on our return. ...

Stephen Mobbs is a Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics, and the Director of NERC’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science. He is a physicist by training and took a leadership role in NERC’s airborne observations of the ash cloud over the UK during the Eyjafjallajokull eruption. Prof. Mobbs serves on scientific and operational advisory groups set up by the UK government to deal with the Eyjafjallajokull and future environmental emergencies. ...

NEODC services will be down this coming weekend (evening of Friday 12th to Sunday 14th) and should be considered at risk at the end of this period while essential upgrades to the electricity supply at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory take place. ...

The British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) and NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) are participating in a study commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC to explore the long-term use and benefits of Research Data Centres. The study will be featuring the activities of a small number of well-established UK Data Centres, including BADC/NEODC, and aims to document the benefits and impacts that effective curation and sharing of research data can deliver to the scientific community and other users. The study is being performed by Technopolis Ltd. ...

Some of the BADC servers unexpectedly went down yesterday, Wednesday 19th of October, early evening, resulting in the BADC Website and associated Services becoming unaccessible. The problem was however resolved early this morning and the BADC Website and BADC Services are now running as expected. ...

The Earth is relentlessly changing. Tracing and understanding past environmental change plays an important role in the prediction of future environmental change. The data held by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) consists of historical records accumulated over decades that provide a valuable resource to support research, survey and monitoring activities and for users in academia, government, the public sector, industry and commerce. The NERC data centres ( www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/ ) are responsible for the long-term management of data and provide access to NERC’s data holdings. They also provide support and guidance in data management to NERC funded researchers. ...

On the weekend of 9th/10th October, there will be some electrical power maintenance work on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site, where the BADC is based. It is possible that the BADC electrical power feeds and hence services may be at risk this weekend. ...