The current size of the NETCDF4 output files are too big.
IRIS output: ~75 MB
NEXRAD output: ~275 MB
There are two ways this can be improved. First, the overall size of both files can be halved by switching to float32 output instead of float64 (given the precision of our data, 8-byte values are unnecessary).
Secondly, for NEXRAD, we can discard some of the upper scan levels after the precip filter has been applied. We will want to keep this as an adjustable parameter (i.e. keep first N scan levels).
danielhogg
commented
4 years ago
The current size of the NETCDF4 output files are too big.
There are two ways this can be improved. First, the overall size of both files can be halved by switching to float32 output instead of float64 (given the precision of our data, 8-byte values are unnecessary).
Secondly, for NEXRAD, we can discard some of the upper scan levels after the precip filter has been applied. We will want to keep this as an adjustable parameter (i.e. keep first N scan levels).