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The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a national facility for preserving and distributing oceanographic and marine data. Staff have direct experience of marine data collection and analysis and they work alongside information technology specialists to ensure that the biological, chemical, physical and geophysical data handled are documented and stored for current and future use.

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Quality-controlled sea level data from the UK tide gauge network for March 2009 is now available to download from BODC - http://is.gd/gQwb

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  • Network infrastructure upgrade

    BODC has recently upgraded its network infrastructure to cope with the demand on services. This investment will allow us to maintain our high standards in web data delivery, cater for the 30% year on year increase of registered web users and help us achieve our aim of making all of our data holdings accessible via the web.

    Our recent network upgrade provides

    * dual fibre-based Gigabit connections to the internet for maximum resilience and redundancy for our web sites and services
    * load balancing between our web servers with Gigabit connections to the internet and back office application servers, giving a tenfold increase in available bandwidth
    * Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/https) connections to protect your personal data as it traverses the web
    * protection from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks

    Our Information Technology (IT) infrastructure (servers and networks) are maintained by our local IT support group (POL Computing). In turn, POL Computing are supported by NERC's IT Solutions & Services (iTSS) who provide specialised expertise.

    We will continue to work closely with these groups to maintain and develop the IT infrastructure we depend on as part of our commitment to improving access to our data holdings and web services.

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  • GDA Software Interface version 2.12 released

    Version 2.12 of GEBCO Digital Atlas (GDA) software interface has been released. This supersedes previous versions and is available for download by existing GDA users, along with instructions on how to install and use the software.

    The GDA is a reference source for the bathymetry of the world's oceans. It contains a global set of digital bathymetric contours, coastlines and gridded bathymetric data sets. It is accompanied by a software interface, which allows the user to display, query and export data from the various GDA data sets.

    Version 2.12 of the software interface includes the following additional features

    * view and access data from both GEBCO gridded bathymetric data sets, the GEBCO One Minute Grid and GEBCO_08 Grid
    * export the gridded data in an ASCII format suitable for conversion to an ESRI raster file using ESRI data conversion software

    The GDA is currently distributed on CDROM and does not include the GEBCO_08 Grid. An updated DVD product is planned for release shortly to include both gridded data sets.

    Download software at http://www.bodc.ac.uk/help_and_hints...

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  • GEBCO Grid display software v2.11 released

    Version 2.11 of the GEBCO Grid display software is now available to download, free of charge under licence, for use with the GEBCO gridded bathymetric data sets. This release supersedes version 2.0, published in February 2009, and includes the following enhancements.

    * An option to export data from the GEBCO gridded bathymetric data sets in an ASCII form suitable for conversion (using ESRI data conversion software) to a raster file for use with ESRI ArcGIS products.
    * The ability to work with a read-only version of the source data file — this has proved useful in some cases where the software is used over a network.
    * A bug that caused the export of the GEBCO One Minute Grid to fail if the southernmost latitude of the selected area equalled 90°S has now been fixed.

    The GEBCO Grid display software provides the means for displaying and accessing the data in simple ASCII formats as well as netCDF from

    * the GEBCO One Minute Grid — a global one arc-minute grid
    * the GEBCO_08 Grid — a global 30 arc-second grid

    It has been developed by BODC to run on a PC running Microsoft Windows 95 or later and is controlled by a series of drop-down menus and toolbar buttons. Please note that the software is designed for use with the complete, global data files.

    More info : http://www.bodc.ac.uk/products/softw...

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