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Export time series properties for each time step to NetCDF, default false
tryCompactingNetCDFData
Depending on the difference between the minimum and maximum and the value resolution of a netcdf variable, try to use smaller sized integer variables like short or byte to compact the data. A scale factor and offset will be used to fit the data in the smaller sized variable and will added to the netCDF variable as attributes. This kind of compression will keep the precision of the value resolution. All standard netCDF viewers will take these attributes into account automatically, but other tools and especially scripts might not. This property will be false by default and only works for scalar and grid data.
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With this property the deflate level for writing compressed netcdf files can be set from 0 to 9. 0 meaning no compression and 9 maximum compression. Default will be 5, this level gives best compression without losing too much time when reading or writing.
metadata
(Meta data export has only been implemented for a limited set of export types. Currrently the NetCDF, LILA and HHRR types export meta data)
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