ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

Muñoz-Sabater, Joaquín; Dutra, Emanuel; Agustí-Panareda, Anna; Albergel, Clément; Arduini, Gabriele; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Boussetta, Souhail; Choulga, Margarita; Harrigan, Shaun; Hersbach, Hans; Martens, Brecht; Miralles, Diego G.; Piles, María; Rodríguez-Fernández, Nemesio J.; Zsoter, Ervin; Buontempo, Carlo; Thépaut, Jean-Noël

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 9

Data description paper

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07 Sep 2021

Data description paper |

| 07 Sep 2021

ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater, Emanuel Dutra, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Clément Albergel, Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Margarita Choulga, Shaun Harrigan, Hans Hersbach, Brecht Martens, Diego G. Miralles, María Piles, Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández, Ervin Zsoter, Carlo Buontempo, and Jean-Noël Thépaut

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021-supplement

Data sets

ERA5-Land hourly data from 1981 to present, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS) J. Muñoz-Sabater https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.e2161bac

ERA5-Land monthly averaged data from 1981 to present, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS) J. Muñoz-Sabater https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.68d2bb30

UERRA Regional Reanalysis for Europe on Single Levels from 1961 to 2019 Copernicus Climate Change Service https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-uerra-europe-single-levels?tab=form

ESM-SnowMIP meteorological and evaluation datasets at ten reference sites (in situ and bias corrected reanalysis data) C. Menard and R. Essery https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.897575

An overview of the global historical climatology network-daily database (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ghcnd-data-access) M. J. Menne, I. Durre, R. S. Vose, B. E. Gleason, and T. G. Houston https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00103.1

Drought-2018 ecosystem eddy covariance flux product in FLUXNET-Archive format – release 2019-1 (Version 1.0) ICOS-ETC Drought 2018 Team https://doi.org/10.18160/PZDK-EF78

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The creation of ERA5-Land responds to a growing number of applications requiring global land datasets at a resolution higher than traditionally reached. ERA5-Land provides operational, global, and hourly key variables of the water and energy cycles over land surfaces, at 9 km resolution, from 1981 until the present. This work provides evidence of an overall improvement of the water cycle compared to previous reanalyses, whereas the energy cycle variables perform as well as those of ERA5.