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Grid geometry

ERA5 data is produced and archived as spectral coefficients or on a reduced Gaussian grid, which has quasi-uniform spacing over the globe.  Reduced Gaussian grids have a series of evenly spaced data points along each parallel (latitude), and parallels spaced at quasi-regular intervals. Near the poles there are only a few points along a parallel, but close to the equator there are many more data points along a parallel.

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