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Author: Dr. Manil Maskey
Dr. Manil Maskey is a senior research scientist and project manager at NASA. He leads the advanced concepts team for the Inter-Agency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) and data system evolution project Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA), where he is developing innovative data systems and data-driven solutions to challenging science problems. Dr. Maskey also leads the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Artificial Intelligence Team as part of the open science initiative. Dr. Maskey’s career spans over 22 years in academia, industry, and government. During that time, he has focused on research and application projects in the area of data systems, cloud computing, machine learning, computer vision, and visualization.
NASA and ASDI announce no-cost access to important climate dataset on the AWS Cloud
To assist the science community in conducting studies of climate change impacts at local to regional scales, NASA created the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Global Daily Downscaled Projections (GDDP) dataset, or NEX-GDDP-CMIP6. This dataset is expected to enhance public understanding of possible future climate patterns at the spatial scale of individual towns, cities, and watersheds. It provides a set of global, high resolution, bias-corrected climate change projections that can be used to evaluate climate change impacts on processes that are sensitive to finer-scale climate gradients and the effects of local topography on climate conditions. As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), this dataset is available at no cost on the Registry of Open Data.