Using ERA-Interim reanalysis for creating datasets of energy-relevant climate variables

Jones, Philip D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493, Harpham, Colin, Troccoli, Alberto, Gschwind, Benoit, Ranchin, Thierry, Wald, Lucien, Goodess, Clare M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7462-4479 and Dorling, Stephen (2017) Using ERA-Interim reanalysis for creating datasets of energy-relevant climate variables. Earth System Science Data, 9 (2). pp. 471-495. ISSN 1866-3516

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Abstract

The construction of a bias-adjusted dataset of climate variables at the near surface using ERA-Interim reanalysis is presented. A number of different, variable-dependent, bias-adjustment approaches have been proposed. Here we modify the parameters of different distributions (depending on the variable), adjusting ERA-Interim based on gridded station or direct station observations. The variables are air temperature, dewpoint temperature, precipitation (daily only), solar radiation, wind speed, and relative humidity. These are available on either 3 or 6 h timescales over the period 1979–2016. The resulting bias-adjusted dataset is available through the Climate Data Store (CDS) of the Copernicus Climate Change Data Store (C3S) and can be accessed at present from ftp://ecem.climate.copernicus.eu. The benefit of performing bias adjustment is demonstrated by comparinginitial and bias-adjusted ERA-Interim data against gridded observational fields.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 27 Jul 2017 05:05
Last Modified: 14 Jun 2023 13:02
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64279
DOI: 10.5194/essd-9-471-2017

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