Field

ERA5 MSL
"ERA5 reanalysis, https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era5" averaged over 2x 2 grid boxes
X axis: whole world in 720 0.50° steps, first point at 0.12° E, last point at 359.62° E
Y axis: regular grid with 360 -0.50° steps, first point at 89.88° N, last point at 89.62° S

Monthly data available from Jan1950 to Dec2022 ( 876 months)
Variable msl (monthly mean of daily Sea Level Pressure) in Pa
Full metadata. The associated land/sea mask is available for some operations

Get grid points, average area or generate subset

Mask:	no mask mask15.txt   add a mask to the list
Latitude:	°N - °N
Longitude:	°E - °E
Boundaries:	halfway grid points interpolated
Make:	average max min set of grid points subset of the field
Considering:	everything land points sea points show/hide more only land points only sea points not land points not sea points
Units:	convert to mb leave in Pa

Create a field with lower time resolution

New time scale:	annual (Jul-Jun) annual (Jan-Dec) biannual seasonal
New variable:	mean sd sum sum above sum below number min time of min max time of max first time last time of MSL
Threshold:	no cut less than greater than Pa percentile normal 1971-2000
Minimum:	% valid data
First apply:	-month running mean
Missing data:	ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.

Create a field with lower spatial resolution

Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

Compute geostrophic wind components from this field

Construct a statistical forecast model from this field

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If you really want to get it here, ERA5 MSL is available as a netcdf file (size 587.899 MB).