This dataset contains impact-relevant variables at a daily scale over Europe: - Liquid water equivalent thickness of total precipitation amount - Mean temperature at 2 metres - Maximum temperature at 2 metres - Minimum temperature at 2 metres The data can be used to develop ERA5-based unseen-awg weather generators, or as in baseline dataset to compare generated data against. The following preprocessing steps were applied to the retrieved daily ERA5 data: - Units were converted, we enforce non-negative total precipitation amounts - The data were regridded to a 0.4° resolution grid over Europe using bilinear or conservative regridding. The latter is employed for total precipitation amounts - Format and metadata were harmonized to fulfill the requirements of unseen-awg. This includes the creation of "dummy-dimensions" ensemble_member and lead_time Once the zip files in this dataset are expanded, they combine to form a single .zarr archive. All partial files must be downloaded and extracted, otherwise the .zarr store will contain missing data.
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Wider, Jonathan; Zscheischler, Jakob (2026). Preprocessed atmospheric circulation and impact-relevant variables from ERA5 and "Extended ensemble forecast hindcast" (ECMWF) for unseen-awg simulations. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=unsawg_inp