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 NameUnitsDescription
t2m
K

2 metre temperature

r
%

Relative humidity

siconc
(0 - 1)

Sea ice area fraction

tp
m

Total precipitation

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