The ERA5 Reanalysis: Toward 70 years of global high-resolution hourly data for weather and climate applications

Julien P. Nicolas, Hans Hersbach, Bill Bell, Paul Berrisford, Dick Dee, Andras Horanyi, Raluca Radu, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Cornel Soci, Dinand Schepers, Adrian Simmons, Jean-noel Thepaut and Freja Vamborg, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Copernicus, Reading, United Kingdom