UGAMP World Wide Web News

UGAMP is now making much more use of the World Wide Web to provide access to documentation than ever before. Here is a roundup of some of the latest additions to web servers hosted by UGAMP sites and other web news that may be of interest.

Glenn Carver (Cambridge, Chemistry)

WWW pages at CGAM

The web pages at Reading have recently been updated and include several new features. The biggest of these is the

1996 Science Review

which contains the text and pictures of the report that was submitted to the UGAMP review group in a bid for further funding.

UGAMP publications

Containing the UGAMP published papers 1991 - 1996 and listings of the UGAMP internal and external reports.

Under continual development are some UGAMP internal pages:

• Unified Model (UKMO) and Integrated Forecast System (ECMWF)
• UGAMP Diagnostics/Analysis Graphics
• Programs in use in UGAMP Data formats and manipulation UGAMP Utilities on the Cray UGAMP email lists

Any comments on the style or content of these pages or any useful additions are more than welcome.

Andy Heaps (Reading, CGAM)

Royal Meteorological Society

The WWW pages of the Royal Meteorological Society have moved. The new address is

Users connecting to the old address will be di- rected to the new address for the next few months.

Roger Brugge (Reading, CGAM)

IPCC reports

The Synthesis Report and two of the three Working Group "Summaries for Policymakers" For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Second Assessment (1995) are available for viewing/downloading from the United Nations Environment web page at:

Roger Brugge (Reading, CGAM)

WWW pages at ACMSU

The Web pages for the Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling Support Unit have undergone some tidying up recently. Some new links have been put in place to some of the more recent additions to the web pages at Reading.

The new offerings on the ACMSU since the last newsletter are:

Multimedia Ozone Hole Tour

This is aimed at being an overview of the ozone hole problem and a showcase for the work going on in the group. It includes colour images and colour movies produced using our Silicon Graphics workstation. The tour received considerably attention on the web when it was advertised and a review of it even appeared in the magazine Scientific Computing World. The reference is:

http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/.

Search UGAMP mail and minutes

A new facility has been added to the ACMSU web pages which allows you to search through previous UGAMP mailing list broadcast messages. Searches can also be performed on the minutes of the very early UGAMP meetings and minutes of subgroup meetings (such as the middle atmosphere group). Early issues (non-postscript form) of the UGAMP newsletter can also be searched.

I will aim to keep the email broadcasts database up to date. However, I still have at least 2 years worth of UGAMP email messages to work through! Hopefully by the time this newsletter appears I shall have everything up to date. To search the UGAMP documents, connect to

http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/acmsu/search/ugamp_search.html.

Personnel at Cambridge Chemistry

Long overdue is a web page (http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/cas/cas_members.html) with a list of personnel in the chemistry side of the Centre for Atmospheric Science (Cambridge) and their email addresses. This page also has pointers to those members of the group who has left, with email addresses where available, for those who made need to contact a past member.

European Ozone Research Coordination Unit WWW pages

The Ozone coordination Unit, following their move to new premises will shortly be serving their own web pages from the Centre for Atmospheric Science web server. The reference is:

http://www.ozone-sec.ch.cam.ac.uk/eorcu/

The aim is to provide information on meetings, press releases and ozone bulletins and to update these pages regularly. An email message will be sent to the UGAMP mailing list when the web site is up and running.

Glenn Carver (Cambridge, Chemistry)

The British Atmospheric Data Centre

The BADC is undergoing a major face-lift. The World-Wide Web interface has been completely redesigned and the top-level web pages have been rewritten to make them easier to use and rather more inviting. We have also taken the opportunity to extend the range of information services which now include an extensive range of links to other World Wide Web servers, a conference calendar and pointers to seminars around the UK.

We have now begun updating the pages on BADC data sets and have already made available data and information through the WWW on a number of data sets which hitherto have only been available by FTP or on CD-ROM. These include the CIRA data set and a number of NASA aircraft campaigns. Over the next few weeks we are aiming to finish revising our older dataset pages, so until we have finished you may notice two rather different styles - please bear with us.

Have a look (http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/) and let us know what you think.

Lesley Gray (BADC)

© 1996 Centre for Atmospheric Science/UGAMP. All scientific articles are unpublished. No text or graphics may be copied or used without permisson. Newsletter Editor: Glenn Carver, Cambridge University.