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the cloud platform for weather and climate data teams
https://earthmover.io/
Wildfire season may be abating, but our need to understand future scenarios has not: Come join CTO
@jhamman.bsky.social
Thursday morning for a workshop: Predicting cloud native wildfire risk with the Earthmover platform:
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Today, napari users can’t fully leverage Xarray’s labeled metadata, as slider names, units & dimensions often get out of sync. That’s changing. At SciPy 2025, napari, Xarray & CellProfiler devs began a collab to build true metadata-aware visualization across sciences.
earthmover.io/blog/scienti...
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Scientific Data Visualization with Xarray and Napari - Earthmover
Ian Hunt-Isaak Xarray Community Developer Tim Monko Neuroscience PhD & napari community manager This blog was also published on the xarray blog and the napari blog. TL;DR Making Napari and Xarray work...
https://earthmover.io/blog/scientific-data-visualization-with-xarray-and-napari
21 days ago
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For climate predictors and weather analysts: You didn't actually miss the workshop "Replicating official NYC climate risk predictions from ERA5 using Arraylake and Icechunk"- we moved it to this Thursday, October 30! Join us:
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For climate predictors and weather analysts with
#climateweekNYC
FOMO: We will reprise our hands-on workshop, “Replicating official NYC climate risk predictions from ERA5 using Arraylake and Icechunk," online this Thursday, October 23 at 9AM EST: join us!
m.earthmover.io/replicatingo...
about 1 month ago
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Need to put your Icechunk or Zarr data on a map in minutes? Watch this demo to see how xpublish-tiles renders cloud-stored arrays directly into interactive MapLibre maps — no preprocessing needed.
youtu.be/EK2HG_lSgA4
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Wicked Smaht DEMO: Dynamic Map Tile Rendering from Icechunk to Mapbox with xpublish-tiles
YouTube video by Earthmover
https://youtu.be/EK2HG_lSgA4
about 1 month ago
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In case you missed it: Tomorrow,
@deepakcherian.bsky.social
will give a live demo that will take you from Zarr/Icechunk to Mapbox/MapLibre with a click of a button! Build faster, smoother maps with no pre-processing using the Earthmover platform’s latest feature: Tiles.
m.earthmover.io/wickedsmaht
about 1 month ago
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WHOI scientist Iury Simoes-Sousa built a groundbreaking ocean eddy dataset... that took 10 minutes to query. With Icechunk in the cloud, it’s now 10 seconds -- a huge step forward for open, cloud-native ocean science.
earthmover.io/blog/from-10...
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From 10 Minutes to 10 Seconds: How Woods Hole Scientists used Icechunk to Optimize Ocean Data Access - Earthmover
Iury Simoes-Sousa Postdoctoral Investigator, Physical and Computational Oceanography Note: this is a guest post by Woods Whole Oceanographic Institute scientist Dr. Iury Simoes-Sousa Among the many wa...
https://earthmover.io/blog/from-10-minutes-to-10-seconds-how-woods-hole-scientists-used-icechunk-to-optimize-ocean-data-access
about 1 month ago
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Meet
@rabernat.bsky.social
,
@jhamman.bsky.social
and more of the Earthmover team at our
#ClimateWeekNYC
events. PSA: the hands-on tech workshop Wednesday and panel on Thursday still have capacity, but are filling up fast.
about 2 months ago
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A fortuitous start to
@climateweeknyc.bsky.social
: our $7.2M seed round makes the news!
techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/e...
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Earthmover wants to become the Snowflake of weather and geospatial data | TechCrunch
Earthmover found new customers when it started building tools for companies to analyze the output of weather models. The startup has now raised a $7.2 million seed round.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/earthmover-wants-to-become-the-snowflake-of-weather-and-geospatial-data/
about 2 months ago
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#ClimateWeekNYC
is here- and there's a hands-on technical workshop with
@rabernat.bsky.social
at the Geospatial Risk event on Wednesday afternoon at St. John's (Manhattan): "Open Data in Applied Risk Analysis." Here's the link to register:
www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-works...
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Tech Workshop: Open Data in Applied Risk Analysis
NYC Climate Week events by Geospatial Risk!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-workshop-open-data-in-applied-risk-analysis-tickets-1537124152719?aff=oddtdtcreator
about 2 months ago
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#ClimateWeekNYC
is almost upon us, as is the "What is the future of AI Weather Forecasting?" panel with
@rabernat.bsky.social
,
@juliangsf.bsky.social
,
@mikepritchard.bsky.social
, Google, Sorcerer and NVIDIA on Tuesday, September 23. Come join us!
luma.com/svimvi2y?tk=...
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What is the Future of AI Weather Forecasting? Climate Week NYC · Luma
A panel of AI Weather experts from Brightband, Earthmover, Google, NVIDIA, and Sorcerer will discuss the future of AI weather forecasting, and answer questions…
https://luma.com/svimvi2y?tk=KjrQ4C
2 months ago
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Climate Week NYC is coming fast, and there's a slew of events that CEO
@rabernat.bsky.social
willl be at: register now for events
@brightbangtan.bsky.social
and
www.geospatialrisk.com
are organizing. See
m.earthmover.io/events
for the list, including a hands-on workshop and the relaunch of GeoNYC!
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When Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in February 2021, freezing temperatures, still wind, and cloud cover converged into one of the most severe power crises in U.S. history. It was a stark reminder to energy markets that weather can move billions. Frequent forecasters/ modelers: please join.
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From Weather Extremes to Trading Signals
See how modern data workflows let meteorologists deliver market-moving insights to traders with speed and precision.
https://m.earthmover.io/webinar-weather-extremes-to-trading-signals
3 months ago
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Zarr is great for big multidimensional data—but not for collaboration. Our latest post by Lindsey Nield shows how Icechunk adds Git-like transactions + version control, so teams can safely share and scale Zarr workflows.
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Multi-Player Mode: Why Teams That Use Zarr Need Icechunk - Earthmover
Icechunk brings Git-like version control to Zarr. Ensure atomic updates, consistent reads, and scalable collaboration for shared datasets.
https://earthmover.io/blog/multi-player-mode-why-teams-that-use-zarr-need-icechunk
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Thousands of radar scans, unified as one dataset. In his latest post, Alfonso Ladino-Rincon introduces Radar DataTree: a model that makes radar data analysis-ready, scalable, and versioned for cloud workflows.
earthmover.io/blog/radar-s...
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Radar DataTree: Transforming thousands of scans into a single cohesive model - Earthmover
From structure to scale, radar needs a model that organizes complete collections as time-aware, cloud-native datasets. In our second post, we looked at how new standards and open-source tools are tran...
https://earthmover.io/blog/radar-scan-datasets-time-aware-cloud-native
3 months ago
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August updates: How to access 50 years of ERA5 data with Earthmover, the Icechunk 1.0 release, and an invitation to our August webinar: How To Turn Weather Radar Archives into Usable Science with Xarray DataTree and Zarr
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August Newsletter
🌏 50 Years of ERA5 Access in Earthmover: The Arraylake / Icechunk edition is an analysis-ready dataset that retains only the single-level surface fields—18 hourly variables such as 2 m temperature, 10...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/august-newsletter-earthmover-s2tdc/?trackingId=FluqQ9%2FsQm2mm88UJOTJLg%3D%3D
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📡 From Raw Scans to Structured Science — Radar Data Gets a Standard In our latest blog post, Alfonso Ladino-Rincon explores the progress made with FM-301/CfRadial 2.1, the World Meteorological Org’s official global data standard for weather radar and lidar.
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From Files to Datasets: FM-301 and the Future of Radar Interoperability - Earthmover
At Earthmover, we’re interested in weather radar data for two reasons: We’re obsessed with data like this–which doesn’t fit into either traditional relational databases or into the standard “geospatia...
https://earthmover.io/blog/from-files-to-datasets-fm-301-and-the-future-of-radar-interoperability
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Dr. Wendy Bohon
4 months ago
Are you a maritime professional who witnessed the recent tsunami in California (7/29/25)? If so, please consider filling out this survey. Thanks!
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 2025 - Tsunami Emergency Reconnaissance - Maritime
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky July 2025 Tsunami Emergency Reconnaissance Maritime Questionnaire
https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/76979db33f2641d7bb3cb81da2010761?portalUrl=https://cadoc.maps.arcgis.com
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Today at SciPy 2025 we released Icechunk 1.0, an open source package and specification that enables database-style transactions against petabyte-scale array datasets using only cloud object storage as infrastructure. Read about it on our blog
earthmover.io/blog/icechun...
, or visit
earthmover.io
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Icechunk 1.0: Production-Grade Cloud-Native Array Storage Is Here - Earthmover
A year ago, we made an important internal decision which set Earthmover on a new course—we decided to refactor and open source our core technology for storing array-based data in the cloud. This took ...
https://earthmover.io/blog/icechunk-1-0-production-grade-cloud-native-array-storage-is-here
4 months ago
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Watch Naomi's talk from CNG to learn more about how CTrees is using the Earthmover Platform
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CNG
6 months ago
New
#CNG2025
talk alert! Lindsey Nield &
@deepakcherian.bsky.social
from
@earthmover.io
present on Zarr, Icechunk & Xarray for cloud-native
#geospatial
data cube analysis. Watch now:
youtu.be/DSxmCWfobqQ
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[CNG 2025] Zarr, Icechunk & Xarray for Cloud-Native Geospatial Data-cube Analysis – Nield & Cherian
YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum
https://youtu.be/DSxmCWfobqQ
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Our latest fundamentals blog post provides an overview of
@zarr.dev
and its open-source ecosystem. Read more:
earthmover.io/blog/what-is...
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Fundamentals: What Is Zarr? A Cloud-Native Format for Tensor Data - Earthmover
What Zarr is, and how it enables fast, scalable access to multidimensional array data in the cloud.
https://earthmover.io/blog/what-is-zarr
6 months ago
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Register
bit.ly/4mCCRSW
for our upcoming webinar to learn about the different APIs available with Flux and how they can be used to build interactive and informative web applications for weather data products.
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𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑐𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠? Icechunk stores only new or changed chunks for each version —no redundant copies or rewrites. You get instant time travel, branching, and efficient updates, all with negligible storage overhead. More:
bit.ly/3F1XFST
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Icechunk: Efficient storage of versioned array data - Earthmover
We recently got an interesting question in Icechunk’s community Slack channel (thank you Iury Simoes-Sousa for motivating this post): I’m new to Icechunk. How is the storage managed for redundant info...
https://earthmover.io/blog/icechunk-efficient-storage-of-versioned-array-data
6 months ago
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Our small but mighty team has spent decades wrangling scientific data in academia and industry. Along the way, we’ve spotted the same anti-patterns cropping up everywhere: data swamps, code duplication, bespoke and fragile pipelines, and gatekeepers.
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1/ Our team just got back from an inspiring week at the
@cloudnativegeo.org
conference in Snowbird, Utah, and one thing is clear: 𝐙𝐚𝐫𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥.
7 months ago
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👋 Stop by our booth at
@cloudnativegeo.org
to say hi to our team, see a demo of our platform, and pick up some stickers!
#CNG2025
7 months ago
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📣 Our team is heading to the
@cloudnativegeo.org
Conference in Snowbird, Utah. We’ll be sharing our latest open-source work on Xarray, Zarr, VirtualiZarr, Icechunk, and leading a hands-on workshop, 𝑍𝑎𝑟𝑟, 𝐼𝑐𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘, & 𝑋𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑-𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑎-𝑐𝑢𝑏𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠. Read more:
bit.ly/4lRWNAJ
7 months ago
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1/ 🚨 New Blog Post Alert: "𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐼𝑐𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝐶𝑙𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒́𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒" 🏦🔁 👉 Read it here:
earthmover.io/blog/learnin...
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Learning about Icechunk consistency with a clichéd but instructive example - Earthmover
In this post we’ll show what can happen when more than one process write to the same Icechunk repository concurrently, and how Icechunk uses transactions and conflict resolution to guarantee consisten...
https://earthmover.io/blog/learning-about-icechunk-consistency
7 months ago
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1/ 💡 Our latest blog post in the fundamentals series, written by
@tegnicholas.bsky.social
, demystifies cloud-optimized scientific data formats! Read more:
earthmover.io/blog/fundame...
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Fundamentals: What is Cloud-Optimized Scientific Data?
What cloud-optimized data really means, and how Zarr and Icechunk enable fast access to massive scientific datasets in cloud object storage.
https://earthmover.io/blog/fundamentals-what-is-cloud-optimized-scientific-data
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1/ Today we are launching Flux, a powerful new addition to the Earthmover platform. Flux is a high-performance gateway for exploring, querying, and visualizing geospatial data via standards-compliant APIs (EDR, WMS, and OPeNDAP).
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📣 Blog post alert! 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝟑'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. This technical post by
@functionth.bsky.social
dives deep into the internals of how S3 shards data, showing that distributed Icechunk can easily perform 230,000 object reads/sec and beyond.
earthmover.io/blog/explori...
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Exploring Icechunk scalability: untangling S3's prefix story | Earthmover
We show Icechunk can scale to extremely high concurrency levels, and explain how it achieves this in modern object stores.
https://earthmover.io/blog/exploring-icechunk-scalability
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⭐ We just released the first post in our Fundamentals series. This one is called 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐯𝐬. 𝐓𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 - 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚.
earthmover.io/blog/tensors...
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Fundamentals: Tensors vs. Tables | Earthmover
Why tabular tools trip over gridded data.
https://earthmover.io/blog/tensors-vs-tables
8 months ago
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1/ 🚀 Solving
#NASA
’s cloud data dilemma: Icechunk unlocks 100x faster access to archival data formats We're thrilled to publish results from our pilot project with NASA and
@developmentseed.org
to enable high-performance cloud-native access for NASA’s 100s of petabytes of Earth observation data.
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Register to attend our team's workshop at
@cloudnativegeo.org
! The workshop will teach attendees how to use the
@zarr.dev
data format model for cloud-native geospatial datacube analysis. 🗓️ Apr 30-May 2 📍Snowbird, Utah 🔗 Register here:
2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org
8 months ago
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Join our upcoming webinar to learn about our new product, Flux. Flux hosts standards-compliant WMS, EDR, and OPeNDAP endpoints, allowing seamless integration between Arraylake data and other tools, including web maps, GIS applications, and even Excel spreadsheets. Register here:
bit.ly/4kEGeaV
8 months ago
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1/ As a data platform company, we get a unique view of how other companies use data. In light of the recent cuts at
@noaa.gov
, our CEO,
@rabernat.bsky.social
, reached out to our customers to get their perspective on the value of NOAA’s data and services.
8 months ago
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Denver folks — join us for a Geospatial Happy Hour on Wednesday, March 12th at 7 PM MST. Come enjoy drinks, tacos, discussing geospatial data, and meeting the Earthmover team. Register:
lu.ma/o6r39p6j
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Denver Geospatial Happy Hour · Luma
Come have a drink, grab a bite, and nerd out with the Earthmover team on geospatial data. Earthmover will provide food and drink tickets. Our event will be…
https://lu.ma/o6r39p6j
9 months ago
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We’re thrilled to welcome
@tegnicholas.bsky.social
to the team! Tom is a prolific contributor to
@xarray.bsky.social
and
@pangeo.io
. He created Xarray Datatree and VirtualiZarr. Tom is working as a Forward Engineer, supporting our customers and the broader open-source community.
9 months ago
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1/ Check out our latest blog post
earthmover.io/blog/xarray-...
to learn about the dramatic improvement and performance of Xarray’s Zarr backend. We achieved improved the “time to first byte” metric, building on Zarr-Python’s new asyncio internals.
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Accelerating Xarray with Zarr-Python 3 | Earthmover
We have recently dramatically improved the performance of Xarray’s Zarr backend. This post explores how we’ve improved the “time to first byte” metric, building on Zarr-Python’s new asyncio internals.
https://earthmover.io/blog/xarray-open-zarr-improvements
9 months ago
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Register for tomorrow’s webinar, Data Version Control for Arrays with Icechunk.
bit.ly/3WVPSf2
@rabernat.bsky.social
will discuss Icechunk’s application in AI/ML model development, how it adds safety + flexibility to data pipelines, & how it enables git-style version control to Zarr Arrays + Groups
9 months ago
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Join our webinar, Data Version Control for Arrays with
#Icechunk
.
@rabernat.bsky.social
will explain how Icechunk’s transactions, snapshots, tags, + branches can add safety & flexibility to data pipelines and workflows. Register here:
bit.ly/3WVPSf2
9 months ago
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CNG
10 months ago
Excited to welcome
@earthmover.io
as a sponsor for CNG Conference 2025! They join NASA,
@overturemaps.bsky.social
,
@opengeospatial.bsky.social
& more in making this event possible. 🗣️ Have a talk idea? Submit now! 🎟️ Early bird tickets still available! 🫱🏾🫲🏿 Become a sponsor!
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NYC folks —
@rabernat.bsky.social
will be leading a technical workshop, Navigating Weather and Climate Data, on Tuesday as part of the
#GeospatialRiskSummit
. Ryan will teach attendees the current state-of-the-art technology for analyzing weather and climate data and share visions of the future.
10 months ago
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Stop by booth 353 to chat with our team and grab some stickers!
#AMS2025
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10 months ago
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We’re thrilled to announce the release of @zarr.dev-Python 3! This major release brings full support for Zarr v3 specification, including the new chunk-sharding extension, major performance enhancements, and a thoroughly modernized codebase. Read more:
earthmover.io/blog/zarr3-r...
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Zarr-Python 3 is here! | Earthmover
Zarr-Python 3 is here! This release brings support for Zarr's v3 specification, new extensions, and major performance improvements.
https://earthmover.io/blog/zarr3-release
10 months ago
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Our team is packing our bags for
#AMS2025
, including stickers and Earthmover Rubik’s Cubes. Stop by booth 353 to get some swag and chat with our team!
11 months ago
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If you’ll be at
#AMS25
and love weather data, join us for a
@pangeo.io
Community Happy Hour! We’ll have drinks, appetizers, and great conversation with friends old and new about technology, weather & climate data, and open-source software! Register:
lu.ma/ddtba5f5
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Pangeo Community Happy Hour at AMS 2025 · Luma
We're hosting a small gathering for the Pangeo Community at AMS 2025. Join us for drinks and light appetizers, and catch up with our community of data and…
https://lu.ma/ddtba5f5
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🌤️
#AMS2025
is just around the corner! We are taking AMS by storm with an exhibitor booth (booth 353), talks from
@jhamman.bsky.social
and
@rabernat.bsky.social
, and hosting a
@pangeo.io
Community Happy Hour (register here:
lu.ma/ddtba5f5
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Joe Hamman
11 months ago
At
#AGU24
last week, I gave a talk titled "Seamless Arrays: A Full Stack, Cloud-Native Architecture for Fast, Scalable Data Access". Slides and some summary below 👇
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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Seamless Arrays: A Full Stack, Cloud-Native Architecture for Fast, Scalable Data Access
Just about everyone agrees on what the ideal Earth system data service would provide: near-instantaneous access to any arbitrary slice of any dataset, across any spatiotemporal dimensions, to an unlim...
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28031276.v1
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