There are two categories of data compression. The first reduces the size of a single file to save storage space and transmit faster. The second is for storage and transmission convenience. The JPEG ...

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An audio or video format that has lost some of its original data after being compressed to reduce file size. Lossy formats contain less detail, and upon careful comparison with the original, the ...

Climate models such as the Community Earth System Model (CESM) typically produce enormous amounts of output data, and storage capacities have not increased as rapidly as processor speeds over the ...