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Home — Field: ERA5 z500

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ERA5 z500
more information "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 z500 (Geopotential Height) in m2 s-2
Full metadata.

Get grid points, average area or generate subset
Mask:   add a mask to the list help
Latitude: °N - °N help
Longitude: °E - °E
Boundaries:
Make: average max min set of grid points subset of the field help
Units: convert to m leave in m2 s-2 help
helpApply monthly high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value months
requiring at least % valid data
helpApply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value years
requiring at least % valid data
helpCreate a field with lower time resolution
First fill missing data: ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.
Then apply: -month running mean with direction
Then apply new time scale:
New variable: of z500
Minimum: % valid data
Threshold:
helpCreate a field with lower spatial resolution
Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

Construct a statistical forecast model from this field

Compute anomalies
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Compute zonal mean
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If you really want to get it here, ERA5 z500 is available as a netcdf file (size 866.265 MB).

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