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• Allows efficient access to multidimensional data along multiple axes
• Compression applies separately to each chunk
• Can improve I/O performance for large arrays and compressed variables
• Default chunking parameters based on size of one in each unlimited dimension
• Variables may be chunked independently and explicitly

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