scale/offset clarified

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• Subject: scale/offset clarified
• From: owner-netcdf-hdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:49:18 +0100

John, Russ, Mike, Etc
This looks good - just like GRIB packing! Excellent if it makes
HDF/NetCDF <-> GRIB conversions extremely 'thin'.
Chris

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-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-netcdf-hdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Caron
Sent: 20 July 2004 16:31


try that last part again:

To compute the scale and offset:   

    add_offset = dataMin
    scale_factor = (2^nbits - 2) / (dataMax - dataMin)

The precision of the data will be 1.0 / scale_factor.

To move between packed and unpacked values:

   unpacked = (packed == 2^nbits-1) ? missing value : packed * 
scale_factor + add_offset

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