I forget to compare with gzip. I used gzip with -best, I didn't time
but both bzip2 and gzip took a long time. Some of the other
comparisons have been with GRIB or other files that have very
different formats. Our files are very standard 3-dimensional
(lat-lon-time) NetCDF files, with time as the record variable. The
results:
raw.nc 380,551,616
raw.nc.Z 143,716,211
raw.nc.gz 103,491,706
raw.nc.bz2 55,633,062
-Roy M.
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Roy Mendelssohn
Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097
e-mail: rmendels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
voice: (831)-648-9029
fax: (831)-648-8440
www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/
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