https://github.com/observingclouds/xbitinfo

Python wrapper of BitInformation.jl to easily compress xarray datasets based on their information content
https://github.com/observingclouds/xbitinfo

compression gsoc-2024 pangeo python xarray

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Python wrapper of BitInformation.jl to easily compress xarray datasets based on their information content

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/observingclouds/xbitinfo
• Owner: observingClouds
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-03-31T10:12:46.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-23T01:22:07.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-29T13:08:28.101Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: compression, gsoc-2024, pangeo, python, xarray
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://xbitinfo.readthedocs.io
• Size: 889 KB
• Stars: 54
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 20
• Open Issues: 25
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.rst
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.rst
  • License: LICENSE
  • Authors: AUTHORS.rst

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# xbitinfo: Retrieve information content and compress accordingly

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This is an [`xarray`](xarray.pydata.org/)-wrapper around [BitInformation.jl](https://github.com/milankl/BitInformation.jl) to retrieve and apply bitrounding from within python.

The package intends to present an easy pipeline to compress (climate) datasets based on the real information content.

## How the science works

### Paper

Klöwer, M., Razinger, M., Dominguez, J. J., Düben, P. D., & Palmer, T. N. (2021). Compressing atmospheric data into its real information content. Nature Computational Science, 1(11), 713–724. doi: [10/gnm4jj](https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-021-00156-2)

### Video

[![Video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kcbOdwfskmY/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbOdwfskmY)

### Julia Repository

[BitInformation.jl](https://github.com/milankl/BitInformation.jl)

## How to install

### Preferred installation

`conda install -c conda-forge xbitinfo`

### Alternative installation

`pip install xbitinfo` # ensure to install julia manually

## How to use

```python

import xarray as xr

import xbitinfo as xb

example_dataset = 'eraint_uvz'

ds = xr.tutorial.load_dataset(example_dataset)

bitinfo = xb.get_bitinformation(ds, dim="longitude")  # calling bitinformation.jl.bitinformation

keepbits = xb.get_keepbits(bitinfo, inflevel=0.99)  # get number of mantissa bits to keep for 99% real information

ds_bitrounded = xb.xr_bitround(ds, keepbits)  # bitrounding keeping only keepbits mantissa bits

ds_bitrounded.to_compressed_netcdf(outpath)  # save to netcdf with compression

```

## Credits

- [Milan Klöwer](https://github.com/milankl) for [BitInformation.jl](https://github.com/milankl/BitInformation.jl)

- [`Cookiecutter`](https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter) and [`audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage`](https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage)