ERA-Interim/Land: a global land surface reanalysis data set

Abstract. ERA-Interim/Land is a global land surface reanalysis data set covering the period 1979–2010. It describes the evolution of soil moisture, soil temperature and snowpack. ERA-Interim/Land is the result of a single 32-year simulation with the latest ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) land surface model driven by meteorological forcing from the ERA-Interim atmospheric reanalysis and precipitation adjustments based on monthly GPCP v2.1 (Global Precipitation Climatology Project). The horizontal resolution is about 80 km and the time frequency is 3-hourly. ERA-Interim/Land includes a number of parameterization improvements in the land surface scheme with respect to the original…

• SR
  Sight Research UK

  Award: NE/K00896X/1
• GR
  Grains Research and Development Corporation
• TU
  Technische Universität Wien
• NE
  Natural Environment Research Council

  Award: NE/K00896X/1