COAPEC Milestones

Contents

• Programme details
• Contacts
• Milestones
• Budget
• Acronyms
• Conventions
• Sources

Programme details

Contacts

Milestones

Year	Quarter	Targets and milestones	Completed
2001-02	/	* Obtain and maintain 100 years of the HadCM3 control run, plus possible additional data as directed by COAPEC team (< 1 Tb)
		* Handle authorisation and access to this data
		* Maintain COAPEC related documentation in the form of web pages
		* Provide support for coupled atmosphere ocean modelling on Beowulf clusters
	2	Extraction of first half of the 1000-year HadCM3 control run
		Production of COAPEC workspace via CAST
	3	Achieve 75% completion of 1000-year HadCM3 control run archive
		Extraction of data from HadAM3 100-year run and provision to Tim Osbourn (UEA)
		Extraction of data subsets from the HadCM3 100-year run and provision to Arnold Taylor (Plymouth)
		Provision of conversion and subsetting tools to the COAPEC community
	4	Replacement of corrupt files of 100-year HadCM3 archive
		Continued extraction of missing data from 1000-year HadCM3 control run
2002-03	/	* Ongoing maintenance of COAPEC archives
	1	Set up of a JANET backup connection to continue the transfer of the 1000-year HadCM3 dataset from the Met Office
		1000-year HadCM3 dataset 87% complete
	2	Set up of an automated system for cataloguing data files from the HadCM3 100-year control run, checking their integrity and retrieving uncorrupted versions
		* Report to SC
	4	1000-year HadCM3 dataset 95% complete
		* Report to SC
2003-04	/	* Ongoing maintenance of COAPEC archives
		* Update home page
		* Further details to be negotiated
	1	Ongoing liaison with Met Office to fill gaps in 1000-year HadCM3 data set
		Ongoing liaison with Hadley Centre to develop software allowing direct data file ingestion into LAS
	2	1000-year HadCM3 dataset 98% complete
		Availability to COAPEC users of subsets of the 1000-year HadCM3 dataset that have been checked
		* Implementation of COAPEC LAS
		* Provision of ECMWF HindCast (Seasonal Forecast) data, including file naming convention and documentation
	3	1000-year HadCM3 dataset 100% complete
		Integrity checks performed on 1000-year HadCM3 dataset and complete availability to COAPEC users
		* Provision of LAS virtual data implementation plan
	4	BADC contribution to COAPEC newsletter
		Re-extraction of defective ocean temperature data files from the Met Office
		* Implementation of virtual data sets into the LAS
2004-05	/	* Maintenance of COAPEC archives
	2	* 6-month report to SciC
	4	* 6-month report to SciC
* Targets and milestones printed in blue and marked with an asterisk appear in the NERC-BADC SLA Annex of the corresponding financial year. Until 2001-02 included, no quarter milestone was stated in the SLA, but only general targets and deliverables for the year.

Budget

Acronyms

Conventions

• "Year" means financial year (April to March).
• Quarter numbers correspond to the following time periods.

  1		April-May-June
  2		July-August-September
  3		October-November-December
  4		January-February-March

• Targets and milestones printed in blue and marked with an asterisk appear in the NERC-BADC SLA Annex of the corresponding financial year.

Sources

• BADC Project Data Base
• NERC-CCLRC SLA Technical Annex "BADC - Supplement", 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005
• "BADC - Supplement" Quarterly Progress Reports to NERC
• Reports to programme steering committees
• Budgets have been estimated based on the published CCLRC pay rates available at the time when the budget was established. Since 2003, these include a year-to-year inflation-related increase.
• The current cost of data archival is estimated to be about £2K per Tb. This includes disk space or tape storage, physical maintenance and backups. For early programmes and for programmes which are not likely to involve a considerable volume of data, this cost is supported by BADC core funding.