Amazon Hosting 20 TB of Climate Data by Isaac Lopez.
From the post:
Looking to save the world through data? Amazon, in conjunction with the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) team, today released over 20 terabytes of NASA-collected climate data as part of its OpenNEX project. The goal, they say, is to make important datasets accessible to a wide audience of researchers, students, and citizen scientists in order to facilitate discovery.
“Up until now, it has been logistically difficult for researchers to gain easy access to this data due to its dynamic nature and immense size,” writes Amazon’s Jeff Barr in the Amazon blog. “Limitations on download bandwidth, local storage, and on-premises processing power made in-house processing impractical. Today we are publishing an initial collection of datasets available (over 20 TB), along with Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and tutorials.”
The OpenNEX project aims to give open access to resources to aid earth science researchers, including data, virtual labs, lectures, computing and more.
Excellent!
Isaac also reports that NASA will be hosting workshops on the data.
Anyone care to wager on the presence of semantic issues in the data sets? 😉