ERA5 back extension 1950-1978 (Preliminary version) ...

PLEASE NOTE. It is advised to use ds633.0, ERA5 Reanalysis (0.25 Degree Latitude-Longitude Grid) [https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds633-0/].ECMWF has announced that the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has begun the release of the ERA5 back extension data covering the period 1950-1978 on the Cl...

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Main Author: European Centre For Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive 2020
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5065/ybw7-yg52
https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds633.4/
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Summary:PLEASE NOTE. It is advised to use ds633.0, ERA5 Reanalysis (0.25 Degree Latitude-Longitude Grid) [https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds633-0/].ECMWF has announced that the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has begun the release of the ERA5 back extension data covering the period 1950-1978 on the Climate Data Store (CDS).Although in many other respects the quality of this dataset is quite satisfactory, the current back extension appears to suffer from tropical cyclones that are sometimes unrealistically intense. This is in contrast with the ERA5 product from 1979 onwards (also available from the CDS and RDA ds633.0). For this reason the current release of the back extension is preliminary.It is therefore available from separate CDS catalogue entries (hourly, monthly, single level and pressure levels), and this RDA dataset. Around the end of 2021 an updated version of the back extension is to be made available which will be added to the ERA5 catalogue entries that currently reach back to 1979. After an ...