Author: Tom Nicholas

Author: Tom Nicholas

Plotting NYC heatwaves during NYC Climate Week

September 26, 2025

Calculating climate risk metrics from ERA5 using Arraylake, Icechunk, and Xarray. Just show me the notebook! It’s here. Intro This...

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Tom Nicholas

Tom Nicholas

Forward Engineer

Fundamentals: What is Cloud-Optimized Scientific Data?

April 17, 2025

Why naively lifting scientific data to the cloud falls flat. Scientific formats predate the cloud There are exabytes of scientific...

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Tom Nicholas

Tom Nicholas

Forward Engineer