GRIdded Binary (GRIB)
A type of data format used in oceanography and meteorology to represent gridded data in a binary form for efficient storage and processing.
It’s a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) format for packing weather model data (wind, pressure, waves, etc.) into compact binary files. This format involves organising data into a grid structure where each grid cell contains a binary representation of the information. Gridded binary data is particularly useful for large datasets, such as ocean temperature or atmospheric pressure, as it allows for faster data retrieval and manipulation compared to other formats. By utilising binary encoding, which uses only 0s and 1s to represent data, gridded binary files can be more compact and require less storage space. This format is essential for numerical models and simulations that rely on vast amounts of gridded data to make accurate predictions about oceanic and atmospheric conditions.
