ERA5
From variable 3.7
Summary of observation-based historical datasets with specific and/or relative humidity available
- description of data Copernicus
- reference Hersbach et al. (2020)
- source
- ECMWF
- data type
- Global atmospheric reanalysis
- spatial domain
- Global
- spatial resolution
- 0.25° x 0.25°
- temporal coverage
- 1950 - present
- time step
- Hourly; Daily; Monthly
- data format
- GRIB; NetCDF
- comments
- 5th generation reanalysis. Relative humidity and specific humidity are provided on pressure levels only. Surface relative humidity can be estimated from the values on pressure levels or computed using 2 m air temperature and dew point temperature (information on both temperature variables are provided in Near Surface temperature subsection).