ERA5

Description: ECMWF's Copernicus Climate Change Service produces the (ERA5) which is a 30+ year global climate reanalysis dataset. Reanalysis combines model data with observations from across the world into a globally complete and consistent dataset. ERA5 replaces its predecessor, the ERA-Interim reanalysis. Note that the dataset used here is a merger of the Google Earth Engine dataset (up to 7/9/2020) and data to real-time ingested by Climate Engine. 

Organization: ECMWF

Spatial resolution: 24-km (0.25-deg x 0.25-deg)

Time Span: 1979-01-02 to Present (updated every 1-2 months)

Variables:

  • Minimum/Maximum/Mean Temperature (mean_2m_air_temperature, maximum_2m_air_temperature, minimum_2m_air_temperature)
  • Dewpoint Temperature (dewpoint_2m_temperature)
  • Precipitation (total_precipitation)
  • Sea Level Pressure (mean_sea_level_pressure)
  • Eastward/Northward Wind Component (u_component_of_wind_10m,v_component_of_wind_10m)

Website: ERA5 Website

Google Earth Engine Catalog: ERA5 Info (ECMWF/ERA5/DAILY)

Terms of Use:

  • Please acknowledge the use of ERA5 as stated in the Copernicus C3S/CAMS License agreement:
    • 5.1.2 Where the Licensee communicates or distributes Copernicus Products to the public, the Licensee shall inform the recipients of the source by using the following or any similar notice: "Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information (Year)".
    • 5.1.3 Where the Licensee makes or contributes to a publication or distribution containing adapted or modified Copernicus Products, the Licensee shall provide the following or any similar notice: "Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (Year)".
    • 5.1.3 Any such publication or distribution covered by clauses 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 shall state that neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or Data it contains.

References:

  • Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) (2017): ERA5: Fifth generation of ECMWF atmospheric reanalyses of the global climate. Copernicus Climate Change Service Climate Data Store (CDS), (date of access), https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/home

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