This field is very large and is stored as a set of files, I am working on getting features to work. Operations on this field will take a long time, more than one hour.

You will have to register to use this feauture of the Climate Explorer. usage: describefield infile.[ctl|nc] [file2 ...] FORTRAN STOP Full metadata. The associated land/sea mask is available for some operations

Get grid points, average area or generate subset

Mask:	no mask mask1.txt mask5.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

Create a field with lower time resolution

New time scale:	annual (Jul-Jun) annual (Jan-Dec) biannual seasonal monthly 10-daily 5-daily
New variable:	mean sd sum sum above sum below number min time of min max time of max first time last time of Z500
Threshold:	no cut less than greater than absolute value percentile normal 1971-2000
Minimum:	% valid data
First apply:	- running mean
Missing data:	ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.

Create a field with lower spatial resolution

Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

Construct a statistical forecast model from this field

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Please consider downloading this field from the authoritative site.
If you really want to get it here, ERA5 Z500 is available as