DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14987469
title: ERA5-Land daily: Air temperature at 2 meter above surface, daily time series for Europe at 30 arc seconds (ca. 1000 meter) resolution (2000 - 2020)

description: ERA5-Land daily: Air temperature at 2 meter above surface, daily time series for Europe at 30 arc seconds (ca. 1000 meter) resolution (2000 - 2020)

Source data:ERA5-Land is a reanalysis dataset providing a consistent view of the evolution of land variables over several decades at an enhanced resolution compared to ERA5. ERA5-Land has been produced by replaying the land component of the ECMWF ERA5 climate reanalysis. Reanalysis combines model data with observations from across the world into a globally complete and consistent dataset using the laws of physics. Reanalysis produces data that goes several decades back in time, providing an accurate description of the climate of the past.

Air temperature (2 m):Temperature of air at 2m above the surface of land, sea or in-land waters. 2m temperature is calculated by interpolating between the lowest model level and the Earth's surface, taking account of the atmospheric conditions.

Processing steps:The original ERA5-Land dataset (period: 2000 - 2020) has been reprocessed to:- aggregate ERA5-Land hourly data to daily data (minimum, mean, maximum) - while increasing the resolution from the native ERA5-Land resolution of 0.1 degree (~ 9 km) to 30 arc-sec (~ 1 km) by image fusion with CHELSA data (V1.2) (https://chelsa-climate.org/).For each day we used the corresponding monthly long-term average of CHELSA. The aim was to use the fine spatial detail of CHELSA and at the same time preserve the general regional pattern and fine temporal detail of ERA5-Land.The steps included aggregation and enhancement, specifically: 1. spatially aggregate CHELSA to the resolution of ERA5-Land 2. calculate difference of ERA5-Land - aggregated CHELSA 3. interpolate differences with a Gaussian filter to 30 arc seconds 4. add the interpolated differences to CHELSA 

Data available is the daily average, minimum and maximum of air temperature (2 m). 

File naming:Daily average: ERA5_land_daily_t2m_YYYYMMDD_avg_30sec.tif Daily min: ERA5_land_daily_t2m_YYYYMMDD_min_30sec.tif Daily max: ERA5_land_daily_t2m_YYYYMMDD_max_30sec.tif 

The date within the filename is Year, Month and Day of timestamp.

Pixel value:°C * 10Example: Value 44 = 4.4 °C

Projection + EPSG code:Latitude-Longitude/WGS84 (EPSG: 4326)

Spatial extent:north: 82:00:30Nsouth: 18:00:00Nwest: 32:00:30Weast: 70:00:00E

Temporal extent:01.01.2000 - 31.12.2020NOTE: Due to file size, only 2020 data are available here. Data for other years are available on request.

Spatial resolution:30 arc seconds (approx. 1000 m)

Temporal resolution:daily

Format: GeoTIFF

Representation type: Grid

Software used:GDAL 3.2.2 and GRASS GIS 8.0.0 (r.resamp.stats -w; r.relief)

Lineage:Dataset has been processed from original Copernicus Climate Data Store (ERA5-Land) data sources. As auxiliary data CHELSA climate data has been used.

Original ERA5-Land dataset license:https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/terms/static/licence-to-use-copernicus-products.pdf

CHELSA climatologies (V1.2): Data used: Karger D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E, Linder, H.P., Kessler, M. (2018): Data from: Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas. Dryad digital repository. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.5061/dryad.kd1d4Original peer-reviewed publication: Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, P., Kessler, M. (2017): Climatologies at high resolution for the Earth land surface areas. Scientific Data. 4 170122. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122

Other resources:https://data.mundialis.de/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/601ea08c-0768-4af3-a8fa-7da25fb9125b

Processed by:mundialis GmbH & Co. KG, Germany (https://www.mundialis.de/)

Contact:mundialis GmbH & Co. KG, info@mundialis.de
description: Acknowledgements:This study was partially funded by EU grant 874850 MOOD. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and don't necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.