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How to apply for MASS access
How to apply for MASS access
Introduction
To access data held in the Met Office MASS archive, you will need:
- a sponsor
- access to the
mass-cli
client machine - a MASS account
Your sponsor will need to be a Senior Met Office Scientist with whom you are working on a collaborative research project. If you are a Met Office employee, your sponsor will be your manager.
Note: The following instructions also assume you already have a JASMIN login account and the jasmin-login service. If you do not, please follow steps 1-4 here.
Step One - Sponsor Form
Ask your Met Office sponsor to complete the sponsor form available here only to those in the Met Office .
The following information will be asked for, so please provide your sponsor with any details they may not have:
- Your full name
- Your official email address
- Your organization’s name
- Your department name
- The host country of your organization
- A list of MASS projects and/or data sets that you need access to. A full MOOSE dataset path is required, and your sponsor should help you determine this.
- Your JASMIN username
- Your JASMIN user ID number (UID). You can get this by typing
echo $UID
at the terminal on any JASMIN machine.
The information you provide to the Met Office will be treated in accordance with the Met Office Privacy Policy , and your use of the service will be subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use for the service.
Step Two - Access to mass-cli
Next you need to apply for the MASS service in the JASMIN Accounts Portal:
- Sign into your JASMIN account
- Select ‘JASMIN Services’
- Select ‘Additional Services’
- Next to ‘mass’ click ‘More information’
- Select ‘Apply for access’
- Within the request, please name your sponsor
Step Three - MASS account
When steps one and two are complete, you will be provided with a specific MASS account to use on JASMIN and emailed a MOOSE credentials file. Please see Setting up your JASMIN account for access to MASS once you have received the credentials file. Your MASS account will give (read-only) access to the relevant data on MASS based on the information provided by your sponsor; please note that the access control is handled by the Met Office and not by the JASMIN team.
Note: If you have access to MASS on other systems you cannot copy those MOOSE credentials file/s onto JASMIN – they will not work! Please also see the External Users’ MOOSE Guide for what MOOSE commands are available on JASMIN.