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Are there plans to add facilities for data compression to netCDF?

April 26, 2017compression Data facilities netCDF plans

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Are there plans to add facilities for data compression to netCDF?

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NetCDF version 4.0 allows users to use HDF5 as their underlying data format, while continuing to use the familiar netCDF interface. As HDF5 includes data compression, this feature is available to netCDF users. For more information about netCDF-4, see the netCDF-4 web site. Another alternative, written and made available by Bill Noon, is a set of modifications to the netCDF 3.3.1 library source that allows transparent access to both compressed and uncompressed netCDF files. A more complete explanation, the source changes, instructions on how to patch the netcdf-3.3.1 source, and some performance numbers are available from the znetcdf site.