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title1621-11-2017 HW issue affecting some S2S hindcasts availability

We have recently experienced a couple of hardware incidents with tape volumes becoming damaged:

  1. During October 2017, a large proportion of hindcast (enfh), perturbed forecast (pf), single level data (sfc) was not available from tape. Data cached on disk would not be affected, but data from tape would fail. This problem was resolved on 8th November 2017.
  2. From beginning of November 2017 (still on-going) until 21st November, half of the hindcast (enfh), perturbed forecast (pf), pressure level data (pl) are not available from tape.

Unfortunately, requests for data from damaged tapes will block were blocking access to all S2S data. In order to prevent blocking all S2S service via the WebAPI, we have disabled access to (2) during the specified period.

We apologise for any inconvenience and will update you when the .

As of   14:30 UTC access to all hindcasts is has been restored.


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title07-11-2017 New ISAC fixed reforecast set

New fixed ISAC reforecast set was added to S2S archive. The new model version date it relates to is 2017-06-08. The new reforecasts contain now newly perturbed outputs as well and the lead time has been extended to +32 days. The data availability can be discovered as usually via the dedicated S2S data portal at ECMWF.

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