Articles | Volume 17, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8909-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8909-2024
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19 Dec 2024
Development and technical paper |  | 19 Dec 2024

The effect of lossy compression of numerical weather prediction data on data analysis: a case study using enstools-compression 2023.11

Oriol Tintó Prims, Robert Redl, Marc Rautenhaus, Tobias Selz, Takumi Matsunobu, Kameswar Rao Modali, and George Craig

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Advanced compression techniques can drastically reduce the size of meteorological datasets (by 5 to 150 times) without compromising the data's scientific value. We developed a user-friendly tool called enstools-compression that makes this compression simple for Earth scientists. This tool works seamlessly with common weather and climate data formats. Our work shows that lossy compression can significantly improve how researchers store and analyze large meteorological datasets.