欧洲中期天气预报中心(European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 简称 ECMWF)是一个包括34个国家支持的国际性组织,是当今全球独树一帜的国际性天气预报研究和业务机构。其前身为欧洲的一个科学与技术合作项目。1975年ECMWF正式成立,总部设在英国的Bracknell。
ERA5 provides hourly estimates of a large number of atmospheric, land and oceanic climate variables. The data cover the Earth on a 30km grid and resolve the atmosphere using 137 levels from the surface up to a height of 80km. ERA5 includes information about uncertainties for all variables at reduced spatial and temporal resolutions.
Quality-assured monthly updates of ERA5 (1959 to present) are published within 3 months of real time. Preliminary daily updates of the dataset are available to users within 5 days of real time.
A preliminary ERA5 dataset from 1950 to 1978 is also available on the Climate data store (CDS) (1959-1978 is superseded by the quality assured dataset).
1 - Introduction This article describes how users can access the family of ERA5 datasets via the Climate Data Store (CDS) infrastructure.
本文描述了用户如何通过气候数据存储(CDS)基础设施访问ERA5数据集系列。
ERA5 data can be downloaded through the CDS either via the CDS web interface or programmatically using the CDS API service.
ERA5数据可以通过CDS通过CDS web界面或使用CDS API服务以编程方式下载。
Any data in the CDS catalogue can be accessed in these two ways. And since such data is kept online, access is usually fast. Some parts of the ERA5 dataset are not listed in the CDS catalogue. These are only accessible through the CDS API service. An example is ERA5 model level data that resides in the ECMWF's MARS tape archive. The extraction of such data from tape can lead to significantly longer retrieval times than data that is available online.
Users are now able to check the status of the CDS queue. You will be able to view status of requests submitted by yourself (you need to log into the CDS) and other users: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/live/queue
Follow the ERA5 dataset title link of interest (there will be many more hits).
Currently there are eight online ERA5 and two ERA5-Land catalogue entries
Show ERA5 catalogue entries in the CDS
Each of these dataset catalogue entries includes the following tabs:
Overview. This gives a description of the selected dataset and metadata information (e.g. spatial details, file format, variables, etc).
Documentation. This provides links to detailed documentation about the dataset.
Download data. This is a download web form.
Go to the Download data tab to make your selection for ERA5 data retrieval. Using this web interface, you can:
make selections as per your requirements. For your convenience only valid combinations will show; invalid combinations are greyed out interactively.
accept the data licence in the Terms of usesection (in case you had not yet accepted it). You will only see this section after you have logged in.
You will need to do this regardless whether you are accessing data through the web interface or through the CDS API (see below).
Click on the button Submit Form at the bottom right to submit your data request (you must be logged in and have accepted the terms and conditions before submitting your request).
You will now be redirected to the Your requestspage.
Once your request has been processed you can download the data by clicking the green Download button. You can check the Live status of your request.
4 - Download ERA5 family data through the CDS API
First: Install CDS API on your machine
This is Python based.
This may require some basic knowledge of Python. However, in most cases common-sense adaptions of example requests obtained from the web interface should be sufficient.
Install the CDS API:
this may require some basic knowledge of pip, in particular know how to install packages on your local machine using pip.
On linux or on cygwin, please follow the instructions HERE.
Windows users may follow the instructions HERE instead.
You are recommended to use the latest release of package CDS API.
Run CDS API requests, either interactively or in batch mode.
In a small number of cases, users may experience some issues when requesting data from the CDS API. The most common issues are documented here.
Option A: Download ERA5 family data stored on CDS disks - FAST ACCESS
Build a basic CDS API request.
You can use the CDS web interface to help you build your CDS API download script.
In the Download data tab, make some selections, then click the button Show API request at the bottom left and you will be presented with the script.
Copy and paste this to your preferred text editor.
Basic CDS API script example (for ERA5 1979-present) to download temperature at a given pressure level, 1000 hPa is shown HERE.
Refine your CDS API script for ERA5 data listed in CDS for optional post-processing.
For a different grid resolution, use the key 'grid'.
Please note that the ERA5 native grid of online CDS is 0.25°x0.25° (atmosphere), 0.5°x0.5° (ocean waves), mean, spread and members: 0.5°x0.5° (atmosphere), 1°x1° (ocean waves). ERA5-Land: 0.1°x0.1°. So this will be returned by default.
Click here for a sample script (for ERA5 1959-present) that downloads temperature at a given pressure level at 1000 hPa for a geographical subset of the data and specified grid
When requesting ERA5 data from the CDS in NetCDF (web or CDS API), users should not request ERA5 reanalysis atmospheric data, wave data, and ensemble data in one request. This is because the data has different spatial grids, which can cause issues for the current grib to NetCDF converter and produce incorrect results.
Option B: Download ERA5 family data that is NOT listed in the CDS online catalogue - SLOW ACCESS
Although some flavours of the ERA5 family data is not online in the CDS (i.e. not available through the interactive web download form), it is accessible through CDS API. This embraces ERA5-complete, ERA5.1-complete and ERA5-complete-preliminary, which provide data in the 'raw' format as they were produced:
native grid rather than regridded into regular lat-lon,
model and potential temperature/vorticity levels, in addition to pressure levels and surface fields,
full two-dimensional ocean-wave spectra in addition to integrated wave parameters,
explicit distinction between analysis, short-forecast and other, more technical, products.
The ERA5-Land dataset at the native 9km octahedral grid is an exception and is not available via the CDS API protocol. However, all information is available online at the slightly reduced 0.1°x0.1° regular lat-lon grid (access via Option A, above).
Due to the vast volume of these datasets (currently about 10petabyte) these are not stored on spinning disk, but reside in the ECMWF's MARS tape archive, instead. Access to this data is in general much slower, except for the latest couple of months of ERA5-complete, which are also kept online.
Please be aware that there is an additional queueing system for downloading data from the ECMWF's MARS archive - expect several hours to several days for submitted requests to completeat this time. You can check the Live status of your request
You can discover the ERA5-complete structure (1959-present) and learn how to build a CDS API request by following these steps:
browse for discovery, and browse your way to the parameter level to build a request.
More information on the available streams, product types and levels is available in the ERA5 data documentation.
On the parameter level, use the left-mouse button and the shift key to select more than one field in one retrieval.
The MARS catalogue only shows data for the final quality controlled data that is made available 2-3 months in arrear. However, data is also available from preliminary timely updates up to 5 days behind real time, using the same retrieval structure.
To retrieve MARS data efficiently (and get your data quicker!) you should retrieve all the data you need from one tape, then from the next tape, and so on.
As a rule of thumb everything shown on one page at parameter level in the MARS ERA5 catalogue is grouped together on one tape
For analysis fields this is one month of data with respect to one particular level type (e.g. surface).
For forecast fields on model levels this is limited to one single day.
Use the "View MARS request" feature - this will help you build your own CDS API Python script to retrieve the data through the CDS API.
Example: Download ERA5 model level analysis data (temperature) in the native spherical harmonics representation in GRIB format.
Tailor your request to
re-grid to the desired regular lat-lon resolution
convert to NetCDF (works for regular grids only, i.e., so you need to use the 'grid' keyword as well)
select sub areas
Example to download model level ERA5 analysis data (temperature) for a given area at a regular lat/lon grid in NetCDF format.
For ERA5.1-complete follow the same procedure as for era5-complete explained above, however:
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