Evaluating lossy data compression on climate simulation data within a large ensemble

Baker, Allison H.; Hammerling, Dorit M.; Mickelson, Sheri A.; Xu, Haiying; Stolpe, Martin B.; Naveau, Phillipe; Sanderson, Ben; Ebert-Uphoff, Imme; Samarasinghe, Savini; De Simone, Francesco; Carbone, Francesco; Gencarelli, Christian N.; Dennis, John M.; Kay, Jennifer E.; Lindstrom, Peter

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4381-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4381-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4381-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 12

Development and technical paper

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07 Dec 2016

Development and technical paper |

| 07 Dec 2016

Evaluating lossy data compression on climate simulation data within a large ensemble

Allison H. Baker, Dorit M. Hammerling, Sheri A. Mickelson, Haiying Xu, Martin B. Stolpe, Phillipe Naveau, Ben Sanderson, Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Savini Samarasinghe, Francesco De Simone, Francesco Carbone, Christian N. Gencarelli, John M. Dennis, Jennifer E. Kay, and Peter Lindstrom

Data sets

CESM Models and Supported Releases CESM http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/current.html

Climate Data at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Earth System Grid https://www.earthsystemgrid.org

CESM-LE data Large Ensemble Community Project http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/projects/community-projects/LENS/

Floating Point Compression zfp & fpzip http://computation.llnl.gov/projects/floating-point-compression

Short summary

We apply lossy data compression to output from the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble...