Field

ERA5 Z500
"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

1-daily data available from 01Jan1979 to 31Jan2021 ( 15403 times)
Variable z500 (Geopotential Height) in m2 s-2
Full metadata. The associated land/sea mask is available for some operations

Get grid points, average area or generate subset

Mask:	no mask mask17.txt ALA AMZ Antarctica Arctic CAM CAR CAS CEU CGI CNA EAF EAS ENA EQPacific MED NAS NAU NEB NEU NIndian NTPacific SAF SAH SAS SAU SEA SSA STPacific TIB WAF WAS WIndian WNA WSA   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 m leave in m2 s-2

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 m2 s-2 percentile normal 1971-2000
Minimum:	% valid data
First apply:	-day running mean
Missing data:	ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.

Create a field with lower spatial resolution

Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

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If you really want to get it here, ERA5 Z500 is available as a netcdf file (size 7629.82 MB).