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GRIB bitmaps are not such a good idea

Can you store data better than with just 1 bit? Way better.[Read More]

Compression by Bit-Shaving

How to limit precision on floating point numbers by setting lower bits of the mantissa to 0.[Read More]

Compression by Scaling and Offfset

How to limit precision on floating point numbers with scale/offset and packed integers.[Read More]

CF geostationary projection now in CDM

A break from compression obsession.[Read More]

Part 4: Converting GRIB to NetCDF-4

Some details on using deflate for compressing GRIB-2 data, with a comparision to JPEG-2000 wavelet compression.[Read More]
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