AEC is an implementation of CCSDS compression using libaec.
CCSDS stands for Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems and is a WMO standard for lossless data compression (Data representation template 5.42)
Note: This is only available in GRIB edition 2
To encode with this packing type:
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This is relatively fast with a good compression ratio.
When building ecCodes, make sure you install libaec and enable this option via the cmake option -DENABLE_AEC=ON
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