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Essential climate variables for assessment of climate variability from 1979 to present

The Essential Climate Variables for assessment of climate variability from 1979 to present dataset contains a selection of climatologies, monthly anomalies and monthly mean fields of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) suitable for monitoring and assessment of climate variability and change. Selection criteria are based on accuracy and temporal consistency on monthly to decadal time scales. The ECV data products in this set have been estimated from climate reanalyses ERA5 and ERA5-Land, and, depe

Source details

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Evidence quality: 27.5

Listed in cds public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/catalogue/v1/collections/ecv-for-climate-change
• https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/ecv-for-climate-change

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