WFDE5: bias-adjusted ERA5 reanalysis data for impact studies

Cucchi, Marco; Weedon, Graham P.; Amici, Alessandro; Bellouin, Nicolas; Lange, Stefan; Müller Schmied, Hannes; Hersbach, Hans; Buontempo, Carlo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2097-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2097-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2097-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Data description paper

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08 Sep 2020

Data description paper |

| 08 Sep 2020

WFDE5: bias-adjusted ERA5 reanalysis data for impact studies

Marco Cucchi, Graham P. Weedon, Alessandro Amici, Nicolas Bellouin, Stefan Lange, Hannes Müller Schmied, Hans Hersbach, and Carlo Buontempo

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Final revised paper (published on 08 Sep 2020)
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Interactive discussion

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Adequate successor of WFDEI data', Stefan Hagemann, 26 May 2020
- AC1: 'Replies to RC1', Marco Cucchi, 09 Jul 2020
RC2: 'WFDE5: bias adjusted ERA5 reanalysis data for impact studies', Anthony Schrapffer, 27 May 2020
- AC2: 'Replies to RC2', Marco Cucchi, 09 Jul 2020
RC3: 'Review comments on WFDE5', Xudong Zhou, 28 May 2020
- AC3: 'Replies to RC3', Marco Cucchi, 09 Jul 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Marco Cucchi on behalf of the Authors (09 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 Jul 2020) by David Carlson

AR by Marco Cucchi on behalf of the Authors (13 Jul 2020)

Short summary

WFDE5 is a novel meteorological forcing dataset for running land surface and global hydrological models. It has been generated using the WATCH Forcing Data methodology applied to surface meteorological variables from the ERA5 reanalysis. It is publicly available, along with its source code, through the C3S Climate Data Store at ECMWF. Results of the evaluations described in the paper highlight the benefits of using WFDE5 compared to both ERA5 and its predecessor WFDEI.