Essential climate variables from 1979 to present
The Essential Climate Variables for assessment of climate variability from 1979 to present dataset contains a selection of climatologies, monthly anomalies and monthly mean fields of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) suitable for monitoring and assessment of climate variability and change.
Here we propose a subset of the ECV world data for anomalies on soil water, two metre temperature and total precipitation, plus the sea-ice area fraction. The data are available from 1978 until the last closed month and updated monthly.
They are presented as a Zarr archive optimised for time analysis.
How to access
It's required to before running the code snippet below.
1import xarray as xr 2 3xr.open_dataset( 4 "https://data.earthdatahub.destine.eu/more-era5/ecv-for-climate-change-1981-2010-anomaly-v0", 5 storage_options={"client_kwargs":{"trust_env":True}}, 6 chunks={}, 7 engine="zarr", 8) 9
Variables
Short Name | Units | Description |
---|---|---|
t2m | K | 2 metre temperature |
r | % | Relative humidity |
siconc | (0 - 1) | Sea ice area fraction |
tp | m | Total precipitation |