Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
[Glenn Carver sent the appended note for the netcdfgroup mailing list.] I thought I would write highlighting the excellent compression of netcdf files offered by the new compression tool 'bzip2'. bzip2 is a high quality data compressor which is freely available. The website is : "http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/"; As an example with some of my netcdf files 200Mb uncompressed, bzip2 squashes these down to 20Mb whereas gzip can only manage 160Mb (both on default settings). I hope this is of use to people on the netcdf mailing list. Glenn -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Glenn Carver, Science Coordinator, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge University, Chemistry Dept., Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK. mailto:Glenn.Carver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +44 (1223) 336524 http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/~glenn/ Fax: +44 (1223) 336473 "I never think of the future, it comes soon enough" - Albert Einstein ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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