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Hi, I am currently trying to read the uv height over ground data of the GFS model, e.g. "gfs.t00z.master.grbf00.10m.uv.grib2". The file's size is roughly 400k. When I decompress the uv float arrays and save them as zipped files I get roughly a file of 1MB (uncompressed 2MB). I suspect the compressed grib data is somehow stored as 2 byte float perhaps? As I'm very unfamiliar with the netcdf library I'd like to learn more about how the data is compressed and decompressed within the grib file. The motivation of all this is that I'd like to display the UV data on an android device (which has insufficient resources to run netcdf library!) so I need to convert the grib compressed data into something more simple but yet efficiently compressed! I'd appreciate any pointers to the right documentation or any hints on how the uv data is compressed.... Regards, Antonio
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