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ERA5 Land Reanalysis
Global land-focused reanalysis useful for hourly temperature, humidity, wind, radiation, and precipitation-derived exposure workflows.
Dataset summary
- Provider
- Copernicus Climate Data Store / ECMWF
- Spatial coverage
- Global
- Temporal coverage
- 1950-present
- Spatial resolution
- ~9 km
- Temporal resolution
- Hourly
- Formats
- NetCDF/GRIB
- Climate variable tags
- Heat, Rainfall
- Observatory relevance
- North Carolina, Amazon Basin, East Africa, Southeast Asia
Use guidance
- Best for
- High-resolution climate exposure derivation when the analysis can tolerate reanalysis assumptions and a larger data workflow.
- Not best for
- Quick browser downloads or projects that need direct station observations without modeled fields.
- Common pitfalls
- Using accumulated variables without checking units and accumulation windows.
- Treating gridded reanalysis as station observations.
- Downloading more temporal or spatial coverage than the analysis needs.
Variables and notes
- Temp, precip, soil moisture
Related learning resources
Use these guides to interpret the variable, scale, format, and workflow choices before using this dataset in a climate-health analysis.