ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels for wind developers

This dataset contains the low altitude ERA5 pressure levels data for world atmospheric quantities derived from ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels. Only pressure levels 1000, 975 and 950 hPa are included. The dataset is tailored for the analysis of offshore wind farm sites typically required by wind developers.

The data are available from January 1940 until October 2025.

They are presented as a ARCO Zarr v3 archive optimised for time analysis.

How to download the data

It's required to before running the code snippet below.
1import xarray as xr
2
3xr.open_dataset(
4    "https://data.earthdatahub.destine.eu/era5/era5-pressure-levels-for-wind-developers-v0.zarr",
5    storage_options={"client_kwargs":{"trust_env":True}},
6    chunks={},
7    engine="zarr",
8)
9

Variables

Short NameUnitsDescription
r
%

Relative humidity

t
K

Temperature

u
m s-1

U component of wind

v
m s-1

V component of wind

w
Pa s-1

Vertical velocity

z
m2 s-2

Geopotential

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