ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service)
Kept by incident.meteorology@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 11:36 UTC
Kept by incident.meteorology@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 11:36 UTC
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ECMWF's reanalysis of the global weather since 1940, produced for the EU's Copernicus programme: the training set of most machine-learned models.
Address: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-single-levels (leaves this site)
| This | Verb | That | The page that says so | Read | Check |
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| ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service) | is what GraphCast (Google DeepMind) is trained on | GraphCast (Google DeepMind) | raw.githubusercontent.com: "the per-model READMEs for model-specific code. ### Training Data Full model training requires downloading the [ERA5] (link) dataset from [ECMWF] (link) best accessed as Zarr via [WeatherBench2] (link)" | 11:28 UTC, 11 Nov | stated on the page |
| ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service) | is what Pangu-Weather (Huawei) is trained on | Pangu-Weather (Huawei) | raw.githubusercontent.com: "0.25 degrees. For each 721x1440 slice, the data format is exactly the same as the .nc file download from the ERA5 official website. Note that the numpy arrays should be in single precision (.astype(np.float32)), not " | 11:28 UTC, 11 Nov | stated on the page |
| ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service) | is what Aurora (Microsoft) is trained on | Aurora (Microsoft) | raw.githubusercontent.com: "examples.] (link) You can also directly go to [a full-fledged example that runs the model on ERA5] (link) Cite us as follows: ``` @article{bodnar2025aurora, title = {A Foundation Model for the Earth System}, author =" | 11:28 UTC, 11 Nov | stated on the page |
| ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service) | published by | ECMWF | cds.climate.copernicus.eu: "ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present Login - Register Web portal menu Climate Data Store User menu Datasets User guide Applications Forum Live status Login" | 11:29 UTC, 11 Nov | stated on the page |
Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5): CC BY 4.0 (stated on the data set's page) (cds.climate.copernicus.eu, read 11:29 UTC, 11 Nov, stated on the page).
| Read | Store | Show | Transform | Attribution |
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| yes, with a free account | yes | yes, with attribution | yes, with attribution | "Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information [year]". |
A reanalysis: it lags real time by about five days, so it will show Charles only afterwards.
The best consistent record of what the weather was, hourly, at 0.25°: for comparing Charles with earlier storms afterwards.
https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-single-levelsNot a warning service: this page explains where data comes from. For warnings follow IPMA and ANEPC.