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Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-413-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-413-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
Development and technical paper
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27 Jan 2017
Development and technical paper |  | 27 Jan 2017

The compression–error trade-off for large gridded data sets

Jeremy D. Silver and Charles S. Zender

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Many modern scientific research projects generate large amounts of data. Storage space is valuable and may be limited; hence compression is vital. We tested different compression methods for large gridded data sets, assessing the space savings and the amount of precision lost. We found a general trade-off between precision and compression, with compression well-predicted by the entropy of the data set. A method introduced here proved to be a competitive archive format for gridded numerical data.
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