Why on cloud

We offer multiple data portals to download the GEOS-Chem input data. Storing the GEOS-Chem Input Data on the cloud offers several advantages:

Scalability

Cloud storage scales seamlessly to accommodate growing datasets without the need for physical infrastructure upgrades.

Accessibility

Data hosted on the cloud can be accessed from anywhere in the world, facilitating collaboration among teams.

Performance

Setting up a high-resolution nested simulation often requires significant time to retrieve the necessary meteorological fields. The new paradigm to solve this big data challenge is to “move compute to data”, meaning that computations are performed directly in the cloud environment where the data is already available. This approach leverages Amazon’s considerable infrastructure, providing users with a more customized computing environment (For more information, see Running GCHP on AWS