[netcdfgroup] If a compressed dataset is on a THREDDS server, where is the uncompression done?

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Subject: [netcdfgroup] If a compressed dataset is on a THREDDS server, where is the uncompression done?
From: Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:04:43 -0700

Hi,

Here's a question from a user of Ferret software, which is built withnetcdf4 libraries. When opening and reading data from a THREDDS server,where the data is in netcdf-4 format, using compression, where does thedecompression takes place:

- at the THREDDS server and the uncompressed data are delivered over theweb,- at the local machine, the compressed data are delivered over the weband are uncompressed at the local machine?


-Ansley

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- Re: [netcdfgroup] If a compressed dataset is on a THREDDS server, where is the uncompression done?
  - From: Roy Mendelssohn

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- [netcdfgroup] simple commandline query of data-variable statistics to stdout?
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