Manil Maskey and Elizabeth Fancher from NASA IMPACT team (ST11) collaborated with Amazon Web Service (AWS) ASDI, to make the NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6) dataset publicly available on the AWS cloud and accessible at no cost.
The NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 dataset is comprised of global downscaled climate scenarios derived from the general circulation model (GCM) runs conducted under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) and across two of the four “Tier 1” greenhouse gas emissions scenarios known as Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). The CMIP6 GCM runs were developed in support of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6). Anyone can now analyze the data in the cloud environment without having to secure the storage and compute to host their own copy of the data. To access the NEX-CDDP-CMIP6 data on AWS, both in Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) or Cloud-Optimized GeoTiff (COG) formats, visit the Registry of Open Data on AWS. NEX at Ames Research Center created this dataset to assist the science community in conducting studies of climate change impacts at local to regional scales. This collaboration was carried out under the NASA-AWS Space Act Agreement, led by IMPACT.
