Authors for all Tier 2 Reanalysis Source Data: Allison B. Marquardt Collow (Universities Space Research Association; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Global Modeling and Assimilation Office; Now at University of Maryland Baltimore County), Christine A. Shields (UCAR/NCAR - Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory), Bin Guan (University of California Los Angeles - Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering), S. Kim (University of California Berkeley - Department of Geography), Juan Manuel Lora (Yale University - Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) Elizabeth McClenny (University of California Davis - Department of Land, Air and Water Resources), K. Nardi (Pennsylvania State University - Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science), Ashley E. Payne (University of Michigan Ann Arbor - Department of Earth and Space Sciences), K. Reid (The University of Melbourne - School of Geography, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes), E.J. Shearer (University of California Irvine - Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing), Ricardo Tome (Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Dom Luiz), J. D. Wille (Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement - CNRS/UGA/IRD/G-INP), Alexandre M. Ramos (Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Dom Luiz), Irina V. Gorodetskaya (University of Aveiro - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies), L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division), Travis Allen O’Brien (Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division), F. Martin Ralph (University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes), Jonathan J. Rutz (National Weather Service, Western Region Headquarters - Science and Technology Infusion Division), Paul A. Ullrich (University of California Davis - Department of Land, Air and Water Resources), Michael F Wehner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division).
Dataset information, including errata:
Each tar file contains monthly files with hourly data from ERA5 at the native resolution of ERA5 (0.25 deg lat x 0.25 deg lon). This dataset is large, taking up over 4Tb when compressed.
ERA5_slvsubset_*.tar.gz contains column water, the u and v components of the moisture flux, and precipitation. Note that these files are compressed using a scale factor and offset for the data.
ERA5_IWV contains column water vapor
ERA5_hourlyIVT_*.tar.gz contains IVT computed from the u and v components of the moisture flux in ERA5_slvsubser_*.tar.gz. Note: for ERA5_hourlyIVT files, the latitude metadata is incorrect, values follow ERA5 convection (+90 to -90) and NOT -90 to +90 as written.
ERA5_850hpawinds contain u/v850 mb winds
**ERRATA: For ERA5_hourlyIVT files, the latitude metadata is incorrect, values follow ERA5 convection (+90 to -90) and NOT -90 to +90 as written. Note: slvsubset includes uIVT and vIVT. If possible, we encourage using data from slvsubset instead of IVT due to the aforementioned errata.
