The issue focused on how much data was available to researchers to research in their field, and what they could do to better understand the impact of such data.

Suresh said the research was part of a larger research effort to better understand the impact of extreme climate change.

"We did an experiment in which we got to know that we were going to have to put this information in the hands of other researchers to use in their own research and to help them look at the impact of extreme climate change