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1^st February 2012 - New Met Office Africa-LAM dataset now available from the BADC

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Met Office data inc. Land Surface, Upper-Air and SST datasets
ECMWF data
NERC directed research programmes
Satellite datasets inc. TOMS, HALOE, ISAMS, METEOSAT,...
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1. Met Office data inc. Land Surface, Upper air and SST datasets

1^st February 2012 - New Met Office Africa-LAM dataset now available from the BADC
28^th July 2011:NEW - CEDA Web Processing Service launched for MIDAS data
17^th March 2011:MIDAS data 2011 updates delayed
15^th July 2010:The Met Office wind-profiler dataset updated with records for 2005-2009
1^st March 2010:Access to Met Office Radiosonde archives fully restored
26^th February 2010:Met Office Radiosonde archives currently unavailable
19^th December 2008:HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset released
10^th October 2008:Data Extractor Resumes Service
3^rd September 2008: Met Office HadGEM1 Model Integrations now available from BADC
15^th February 2007: Planned Downtime this weekend. MIDAS data Updated. Paperless Forms System
25^th October 2007: HadCM3-control data re-instated into archive.
19^th February 2007: Data Extractor available for MIDAS Surface Data.
10^th January 2007: New MIDAS Station search engine released at the BADC
5^th July 2006: Latest Portable Unified Model Software from the BADC
27^th June 2006: New surface data dataset available at the BADC
23^rd February 2006:MSG Satellite Images now available at BADC
28^th September 2005: Radiosonde and Surface data extractions from the Met Office temporarily stopped
7^th September 2005: "New Met Office dataset available at BADC"
5^th September 2005: "The Met Office Stratospheric Analyses are changing"
23^rd November 2004: "High resolution radiosonde 2003 data available"
30^th April 2004: "Unified Model RPMs available" "Met Office Wind Profiler data is now available from the BADC."
7^th January 2004: "Met Office Wind Profiler data is now available from the BADC."
28^th October 2003: "Met Office Stratospheric Analyses - New Dynamics"
3^rd June 2003: "A new batch of high resolution radiosonde data is now available from the BADC."
16^th April 2003: "New HadISST v1.1 dataset released to BADC users"
11^th April 2003: "GISST/GICE datasets ended - MOHMATN4 and MOHSST6 still updated"
5^th December 2002: "A new batch of high resolution radiosonde data is now available from the BADC."
26^th November 2002: "Met Office Stratospheric Data - NESDIS made a change to NOAA-16 processing affecting the stratospheric data"
3^rd September 2002: "CET Max/Min historical data now available from 1878"
27^th February 2002: "Met Office Stratospheric Data - now using OPERH identifiers"
4^th December 2001: "Historical Northern Hemisphere Mean Sea Level Pressure data (1873-1997) now available"
21^st November 2001: "Historical Northern Hemisphere Geopotential Height data now available from 1945"
25^th October 2001: Portable Unified Model (V4.5) software now available from the BADC
23rd February 2001: Northern Hemisphere Geopotential Height data (1998-present) now available
15th November 2000: Implementation of 3DVAR for the Met Office Stratospheric Analyses
26th September 2000: New Download UKMO Station data Service
12th July 2000: GISST2.3 Data have had to be replaced
9th June 2000: UKMO Global Mean Sea-Level Pressure (GMSLP2.1f) data set covering period 1871-1994 just released
17th May 2000: UKMO Global Mean Sea-Level Pressure (GMSLP2.1f) data set now available at the BADC
4th May 2000: UKMO UARS day 3145 (21 April 2000) and UKMO UARS day 3147 (23 Apr.2000) now available
4th May 2000: Problems with the rerun UKMO UARS day 3145 (21 April 2000) and still no UKMO UARS day 3147 (23 Apr.2000) available.
28th April 2000: UKMO UARS day 3145 released but not UKMO UARS day 3147.
26th April 2000: UKMO UARS day 3145 and 3147 not yet available from the UKMO Archive.
20th April 2000: ppassm_operf_y00_m04_d15_h12.pp now available from the BADC.
19th April 2000: ppassm_operf_y00_m04_d15_h12.pp still missing from the UK Met. Office data archive.
8th February 2000: Met. Office data updates now available
21st January 2000: Met. Office data updates soon available
11th January 2000: Met. Office data updates temporally suspended
25th November 1999: UK Met. Office data will now be updated weekly
11th November 1999: UK Met. Office data are now updated daily
9th September 1999: UK Met. Office daily data updates are temporarily stopped due to an external network problem.
1st September 1999: Access to Standard Global Radiosonde data temporarily unavailable
22nd July 1999: UKMO Land Surface Stations data (1900-present) available from the BADC
13th May 1999: Searchable UKMO Stations Catalogue now available from the BADC
21st January 1999: UKMO Raingauge data now available from the BADC
4th December 1998: Problem with upper-level temperatures in the assimilated data
17th November 1998: Changes to BADC's met. data archives
6th October 1998: Global Radiosonde Data now available
27th April 1998: The historical Central England Temperature data now available from the BADC
2nd March 1998: More climate stations now available from the BADC
2nd March 1998: Gostaplus cd-rom and updates now available from the BADC
13th Feb. 1997: Ozone Press Releases from the UK Met Office

2. ECMWF data

20th December 2007: Problems with ECMWF Operational Total Cloud Cover Data and BADC Helpdesk Christmas closure
25th October 2005: Additional forecast fields available in ERA-40 dataset
12th March 2004: New ECMWF Seasonal Forecast (hindcast) Ensemble dataset
16th January 2004: ERA-40 Live Access Server (LAS) Launched
3rd July 2003: ERA-40 dataset complete and monthly means available!
26th June 2003: Trajectory Web Service is back online
20th June 2003: Trajectory Web Service temporarily unavailable
29th October 1999: Trajectory Web Service is back online
8th October 1999: Trajectory Web Service temporarily unavailable
9th July 1999: ECMWF data update
6th July 1999: New ECMWF Trajectories Web Service
2nd June 1997: ECMWF Seasonal Simulation CD-ROM available

3. NERC directed research programmes

13^th May 2010:New HIRDLS level 2 Version 5.00 data now at BADC
17^th September 2008:New HIRDLS level 2 version 4.00 data release publicly available
10^th July 2008:CWVC datasets now all publicly available
3^rd June 2008:ACTIVE and CHABLIS data now publicly available at BADC
9^th July 2004: UTLS Ozone Data Release
13^th February 2003: Partial release of URGENT data
11^th December 2002: Public release of PUMA data
23^rd July 2001: Final monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (OZPROF)
27^th June 2001: COAPEC data now available from the BADC
30^th April 2001: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (OZPROF)
15^th March 2001: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (OZPROF)
2^nd March 2001: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (OZPROF)
1^st November 2000: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (FREETEX, OZPROF)
2^nd October 2000: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)
1^st September 2000: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)
1^st August 2000: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles, HILLCLOUD)
5^th June 2000: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)
2^nd May 2000: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)
1^st April 2000: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (C-130, ozone profiles)
1^st March 2000: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (ozone profiles)
1^st February 2000: Monthly public release of ACSOE data sets (EAE, EASE, ozone profiles)
12^th January 2000: Subsets of ACSOE datasets are made public (c-130, ozone profiles)
3rd February 1998: HYREX data are now available from the BADC
4th April 1996: NERC "Environmental Directions" brochure

4. Satellite datasets inc. TOMS, HALOE, ISAMS, METEOSAT,...

03^rd October 2007: GERB dataset is now complete at BADC.
05^th October 2006:GERB data is now available from the BADC.
12^th September 2006:ISAMS Level2 Dataset now publicly available
14^th June 2006:Termination of Meteosat-7 0 deg longitude service
23^rd February 2006:MSG Satellite Images now available at BADC
19^th January 2006: No more real time Earth Probe TOMS data
28^th July 2005: SAGE III version 3 data now available from BADC
15^th May 2005: Real-Time Earth Probe TOMS Data Return Next Week!
04^th March 2005:SAGE II version 6.2 data now available from the BADC
01^st December 2003:Earth Probe TOMS went into safehold mode on 27th November 2003
30^th July 2003:HALOE and SAGE observations confirm expected ozone layer recovery
19^th May 2003:TOMS data temporarily unavailable
20^th November 2002:Haloe Level 2 version 19 data now updated to 21 October 2002
8^th August 2002:"TOMS data currently not available"
17^th January 2002: "NASA unveils new 'NATURAL HAZARDS' web site"
1^st November 2001: "Positive News" on UARS Mission
8^th August 2001: UARS Instrument Operations to Cease on Sep. 30, 2001
8^th January 2001: TOMS data from NASA back online.
3^rd January 2001: Delay in the TOMS data reporting because of a software problem at NASA
24^th July 2000: Haloe Level 3A Data Version 19 are now publicly available from the BADC
24^th February 2000: Meteosat images of Europe now available from the BADC
10th September 1999: Satellite data updates are available again.
9th September 1999: Satellite data updates are temporarily stopped.
27th January 1998: MLS version 4 data are now available from the BADC
19th November 1997: MLS version 4 data soon to be available from the BADC
9th July 1997: ADEOS satellite fails - source of TOMS ozone data lost
14th April 1997: Low ozone values over the North Pole
12th Feb. 1997: Digital Elevation mapping for EOS/AM-1
10th Dec. 1996: New Earth-Probe and ADEOS TOMS images available
14th Nov 1996: DoE Stratospheric Ozone Reports
14th Oct 1996: Earth-Probe and ADEOS TOMS data available here.
12th Sept 1996: Earth Probe TOMS data available from GSFC
19th July 1996: Earth Probe TOMS launched; new Version 7 data for Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3
19th June 1996: New and reprocessed TOMS Version 7 data
29th April 1996: New EOS Chemistry Study
12th Mar 1996: UARS Publication list part 4: 1995 and 1996
12th Mar 1996: UARS Publication list part 3: 1994
12th Mar 1996: UARS Publication list part 2: 1992 and 1993
12th Mar 1996: UARS Publication list part 1: 1978 to 1991
29th Jan 1996: UARS Science Team Meeting (March 26-28) Hampton VA.
15th Jan 1996: GOES-9 Data on the Web.

5. Other Items

29^thSeptember 2011: BADC Webserver - Recovery (continued)

20^thSeptember 2011: BADC Webserver - Recovery

15^thSeptember 2011: BADC Webserver - Static pages up

13^thSeptember 2011: BADC Webserver compromised

16^thAugust 2011: Server problems - notice of affected datasets

28^thJuly 2011: NEW - CEDA Web Processing Service launched for MIDAS data

21^stJuly 2011: Network and server problems - notice of affected datasets

5^thJuly 2011: ECSN Data Management Workshop 2011 - October, Edinburgh

16^thMay 2011: CEDA develops visualisation service for the International Space Innovation Centre.

29^thMarch 2011: BADC Spring Clean - disk maintenance advance warning

29^thMarch 2011: Disk maintenance - MetDB, LINK and Met Office Surface datasets affected

07^thMarch 2011: Advance warning of site maintenance work - BADC services and website at risk

20^thNovember 2010: BADC closure between 24th December 2010 and 4th January 2011

24^thNovember 2010: Public Christmas Lecture: "The Eyjafjallajokull eruption: the science behind the disruption" by Prof. Stephen Mobbs"

20^thOctober 2010: BADC Website and Services back in operational mode

19^thOctober 2010: NERC Environmental Data Centres: do they meet your needs?

6^thOctober 2010: Access to BADC Services at risk this weekend 9th/10th October

29^thSeptember 2010: FTP Service now stable

15^thSeptember 2010: FTP problems at BADC

6^thSeptember 2010: BADC Website and Services back to normal

31^stAugust 2010: FTP login and Access to Data Extractor Service currently at risk

20^thAugust 2010: Numerical Model Data Scientist Vacancy

4^thAugust 2010: BADC Webserver and website down this afternoon

30^thJuly 2010: BADC Trajectory Service re-instated

29^thJuly 2010: BADC Trajectory Service temporarily not available

15^thJuly 2010: BADC Trajectory Service back online

12^thJuly 2010: BADC Trajectory Service temporarily unavailable

18^thJune 2010: Access to "My requested data" area restored and Data Extractor service fully operational again

17^thJune 2010: "My requested data" area and Data Extractor service not available

19^th May 2010: Site Proxy server problem fixed - Access to restricted data restored

17^th May 2010: Site Proxy server affecting access to restricted data

4^th May 2010: BADC supports the investigations into the Icelandic Volcano Eruptions of April 2010 & News on IS-ENES EGU Townhall Event.

5th^th February 2010: Advance notice - no site access between 0800-0830 on 09/02/2010

2^nd February 2010: 2010 User Survey Now Closed

8^th January 2010: 2010 User Survey Launched

22^ndDecember 2009: Christmas and New Year Helpdesk Closure

16^thDecember 2009: Site phone line issues - BADC helpdesk number unavailable

14^thDecember 2009: Access to "My requested data" directory and Data Extractor service restored

12^thDecember 2009: "My requested data" directory and Data Extractor service not available

8^thDecember 2009: BADC Trajectory Service back online

2^ndDecember 2009: BADC Trajectory Service temporarily unavailable

30^thNovemver 2009: BADC Service at risk due to network upgrade

23^rdNovemver 2009: BADC Disk Failure - Datasets now back online

20^thNovemver 2009: BADC Disk Failure - Update

12^thNovemver 2009: BADC Disk Failure: Some dataset access affected

4^thNovemver 2009: BADC Disk Failure: Datasets now back online

3^rdNovemver 2009: BADC Disk Failure: some datasets affected

24^th September 2009: Seminars and Conferences list updated

9^thSeptember 2009: BADC disk failure: Datasets now back online

13^thAugust 2009: BADC Disk Failure: some datasets affected

17^th July 2009:BADC File Uploader out of service

7^th July 2009:BADC Website and services: Network power outage

17^th June 2009: BADC Website and services: heavy network traffic expected

30^th April 2009: BADC Website and services back to normal

30^th April 2009: BADC Website and services affected by network delays

24^th March 2009: BADC Website and services now restored

24^th March 2009: Electrical Fault: BADC Website and services affected

13^th February 2009: BADC Website down from 11:30 this morning

12^th January 2009: Data Extractor Available Again

6^th January 2009: Data Extractor Service Unavailable

16^th December 2008: BADC Closure during Christmas and New Year 2008/09

13^th November 2008: BADC Services Operating Again

7^th November 2008: Planned Power Outage at the BADC this Weekend

30^th October 2008: New Service available - CEDA Repository

21^st October 2008: BADC Data Extractor currently out of service

8^th October 2008: Job Opportunities at the BADC

30^th September 2008: BADC Data Extractor Service temporarily out of service

08^th September 2008: BADC MIDAS Data Extractor Service fully operational again

05^th September 2008: Problem with the BADC MIDAS Data Extractor Service

09^th July 2008: BADC Data Extractor Service back in operational mode

09^th July 2008: BADC Data Extractor Service temporarily out of service

06^th May 2008: BADC service disruption due to site power glitch

11^th March 2008: Advanced Notice. Site Firewall Updated: BADC Services Affected

15^th February 2007: Planned Downtime this weekend. MIDAS data Updated. Paperless Forms System

24^th January 2006: BADC 2007 USER Survey Report

10)th January 2008: Loss of data on My Request Area

9 January 2008: Filestore Failure Update

8^th January 2008: Filestore Failure:Data Extractor, My Requests area, Project Spaces and 4 datasets affected

20^th December 2007: Problems with ECMWF Operational Total Cloud Cover Data and BADC Helpdesk Christmas closure

28^th November 2007: Congratulations to the winner of the BADC Competition

1^st November 2007: BADC Survey and Competion now closed

25^th October 2007: BADC Server Issue - Number of datasets affected

17^th October 2007: BADC Server Issue - Hadcm3-control and UM data affected

4^th October 2007: BADC FTP server Re-configuration - COMPLETED

3^rd October 2007: BADC FTP server Re-configuration

6^th September 2007: National database of atmospheric and weather data tops 10,000 users

1^st September 2007: BADC at the RMetS Main and Student Conferences, the 2007 BADC Users Survey and a Chance to win a PDA

28^th August 2007: BADC RSS Newsfeed now available

20^th August 2007: Incoming Email Problems

13^th August 2007: BADC Presence at the RMetS and Student RMetS Conferences

18^th July 2007: Services at risk on Thursday 19 July

4^th July 2007: Electrical Shutdown - Sunday 15th July

20^th June 2007: BADC Helpdesk Software Upgrade on Monday 25th June

17^th May 2007: BADC Adds Citations to Dataset Webpages

20^th April 2007:Services at risk on Monday 23 April

21^st March 2007:Data Extractor now supports Microsoft Internet Explorer

16^th March 2007:Planned Server Downtime on Monday 19th March 2007

5^th February 2007:IPCC Data Distribution Centre managed by BADC

23^rd January 2007:Planned Power Outage at the BADC this weekend

20^th December 2006:Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory Dataset

11^th December 2006: Job Opportunities at the BADC

13^th October 2006: Please ensure your email address is correct

21^st August 2006: Ongoing server problems

10^th August 2006: BADC FTP Server Problems Resolved

25^th July 2006: FTP server problems

14th February 2006: Server Problems at the BADC

7th September 2005: BADC at the RMetS Conference - (12 - 16 September 2005)

16th August 2005: Channel 4 news coverage about the CCLRC Chilbolton Observatory.

1st March 2005: Public release of NAMBLEX data.

10th February 2005: Improved Air Quality Forecasting project (ISB52) data now available at BADC

28th January 2005: Climateprediction.net first results published in Nature

30th November 2004: SOAPEX data now publicly available

26th August 2004: Climateprediction.net joins forces with SETI@home

9th August 2004: Beta test our new Data Extractor web-interface

28th April 2004: Access to all BADC datasets restored

27th April 2004: Temporary unavailability of some datasets

18th March 2004: Download multiple files

17th February 2004:Bolton Experiment data series now available from BADC

23rd October 2003:Berlin Stratospheric data series now available from BADC

16th October 2003:BADC Services unavailable 18-19th October 2003

11th September 2003:New CDAT and GrADS web pages at BADC

30th June 2003:Temporary Disruption to BADC services today

10th April 2003:Temporary Disruption to BADC FTP service on Friday 11th April 2003 from 2pm

7th April 2003:Public discussion forum open

21st February 2003:Normal service resumed at the BADC

19th February 2003:My BADC, Data catalogues, registration system temporarily unavailable

1st November 2002:Telnet connections to the BADC file server not supported from January 2003

16th October 2002:Temporary Disruption to BADC services on Friday 18th October from 8am to noon.

20th April 2002:BADC launches great new look!

20th March 2002:Electricity Supply shutdown

26th February 2002:BADC data Catalogues and Registration system temporarily unavailable

7th December 2001:Temporary BADC file server shutdown on Tuesday 12th December from 5pm

15th November 2001:Temporary BADC File Server Shutdown

1st May 2001:BADC contact details on your WAP phone!

19th April 2001:BADC Searchable Catalogues and BADC Registration back online

18th April 2001: BADC Searchable Catalogues and BADC Registration temporarily unavailable

15th August 2000: Delays in setting up new BADC user accounts

15th June 2000: BADC Press Release: One Thousand Users for National Database of Atmospheric and Weather Data

6th March 2000: BADC Searchable Catalogues back online.

28th February 2000: BADC Searchable Catalogues temporarily unavailable.

10th December 1999: BADC Shutdown over Christmas and Millennium period

9th December 1999: Source Gases Emissions and Trends Web page

19th November 1999: Highlighted Sites facility and Chemical Laboratory Data page

21th October 1999: IUPAC Evaluated Gas Kinetic and Photochemical Data accessible through the BADC Web pages

11th October 1999: UGAMP Ozone Climatology on the Web

4th December 1998: BADC Shutdown over Christmas

10th Mar 1996: Prototype SeaWiFS Browse Utility available for testing

5th Feb 1996: NCDC Announces New On-Line Products and Services

30th Jan 1996: UN Climate Change Bulletin

30th Jan 1996: RMS Physical Processes Group - status and meetings

23th Jan 1996: SPARC96 - A Call for Papers

23th Jan 1996: LaTeX style file for QJRMS

23th Jan 1996: Good News about National High Performance Computers

23th Jan 1996: IPCC Synthesis Report and Working Group Summaries

17th Oct 1995: Climatic Expert System for the North Atlantic (CESNA)

4th Oct 1995: EOSDIS Version 0 available

14th Aug 1995: National Climate Data Center update

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