Access Rules

All the datasets held by the BADC are available Free of Charge^*, either through the World Wide Web (WWW) or the FTP interface. A disclaimer applies to all data from the BADC to limit liability.

Public datasets (Anonymously available)

Restricted datasets

Some of our datasets, however, have access restrictions placed upon them. This is because the data suppliers wish to monitor the use of their data and require an acknowledgement of the data source if they are used in any publication. Although restricted datasets are distributed under strict Conditions of Use, the data remains Free of Charge^*.

Outlines of the Conditions of Use and Full data agreements are presented below.

Outlines from the Data Agreement	Text of the Data Agreement	Granting officer	Contact details
Met Office Data Sets
• Academic research only • Strictly no commercial users • Individual licence (i.e. one application per person per project)	NERC-Met Office agreement in full	The BADC is the granting officer on behalf of the Met Office for the academic user community. Non-academic requests should be addressed to the Met Office directly (see right).	All Enquiries
Met Office Ported Unified Model code
• Academic research from UK only • Strictly no commercial users • Individual licence (i.e. one application per person per project)	Ported Unified Model agreement	The BADC is the granting officer on behalf of the Met Office for the academic user community. Non-academic requests and non-UK requests should be addressed to the Met Office Ported Unified Model Manager directly (see right).	All Enquiries
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) Data Sets
• UK academic research only • Strictly UK only... • ...except for German users under a reciprocal agreement with the MPI-M • Strictly no commercial users • Individual licence (i.e. one application per person per project)	• NERC-Met Office agreement in full • ECMWF selected data sets agreements in full ( ERA Re-analysis datasets (ERA-15 and ERA-40) and Operational analyses)	The BADC is the granting officer on behalf of the Met Office and the ECMWF for the academic user community in the UK. Non-academic and non-European academic requests should be addressed to the ECMWF directly (see right).	All Enquiries
NERC Thematic Programme Data Sets
• Programme participants only during the restricted access period (usually one year after project completion or data submission) • Public afterwards but conditions of use apply (acknowledgement in publications, etc.)	Data Protocol drawn from the Programme Data Management Plan (DMP), in line with the NERC Data Policy, as described in the NERC Data Policy Handbook.	• BADC • Possibly other data distribution centres involved (for data sets not held at BADC)	• Programme Science Coordinator • Project Principal Investigators (PIs)
Miscellaneous Data Sets from various sources
• Academic research only • Access granted on PI's or programme manager's authorisation only	• BADC agreement • Possibly programme own protocol (e.g. NDSC)	BADC	Project Principal Investigators (PIs)

 * A charge may be passed on to the user in exceptional circumstances.