Programme
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
The Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) serves the environmental science community by the provision of data centres, data analysis & access, and research project participation. The centre is based within RAL Space and delivers data infrastructure for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and undertakes project work for a range of national and international funders.
CEDA aims to support environmental science, further environmental data archival practices, and develop and deploy new technologies to enhance access to data.
- Operate world-class data curation services, and in particular the NERC Data Centres for NCAS and NCEO
- Manage state-of-the-art storage and compute infrastructure (JASMIN), in close collaboration with STFC Scientific Computing Department
- Facilitate environmental science by running data and information services
- Develop new data service technologies
- Build and maintain close contact with the research community
- Provide a national capability for data management in EO and Atmospheric sciences
- Contribute to and learn from the national and international community
- Enable scientific, societal and economic impact through use of our data and services
JASMIN
JASMIN is the data intensive supercomputer which provides the infrastructure upon which the CEDA archives and services are delivered. Increasingly, JASMIN provides flexible data analysis capabilities to a growing community, who benefit from high performance compute and a private cloud, co-located with petascale data storage.
CEDA Data Archive
CEDA Archive was established in 2005, as a merged entity incorporating two NERC designated data centres: the British Atmospheric Data Centre, and the NERC Earth Observation Data Centre. Since April 2018, the CEDA Archive has been a component part of the NERC Environmental Data Service, which brings together the five NERC data centres into a single service commissioned by NERC as National Capability.
