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by meteo-jeff 1443 days ago
Sure. I bundle a small rectangle of neighbouring locations like 5x5 (= 25 locations). The actual weather model may have a grid like 2878x1441 cells (4 million).

Inside the 5x5 chunk, I subtract all grid-cells from the center grid-cell. The borders will then contain only the difference to the center grid-cell.

Because the values of neighbouring grid-cells are similar, the resulting deltas are very small and better compressible.