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Please see the ERA-Interim known issues page for guidance and workarounds.
How to acknowledge and cite ERA-Interim
Please use this as the main scientific reference to ERA-Interim:
Dee, D. P., Uppala, S. M., Simmons, A. J., Berrisford, P., Poli, P., Kobayashi, S., Andrae, U., Balmaseda, M. A., Balsamo, G., Bauer, P., Bechtold, P., Beljaars, A. C. M., van de Berg, L., Bidlot, J., Bormann, N., Delsol, C., Dragani, R., Fuentes, M., Geer, A. J., Haimberger, L., Healy, S. B., Hersbach, H., Hólm, E. V., Isaksen, L., Kållberg, P., Köhler, M., Matricardi, M., McNally, A. P., Monge-Sanz, B. M., Morcrette, J.-J., Park, B.-K., Peubey, C., de Rosnay, P., Tavolato, C., Thépaut, J.-N. and Vitart, F. (2011), The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 137: 553–597. doi: 10.1002/qj.828
For a more technical documentation of the contents of the ERA-Interim dataset please use:
Berrisford, P, Dee, DP, Poli, P, Brugge, R, Fielding, K, Fuentes, M, Kållberg, PW, Kobayashi, S, Uppala, S, Simmons, A (2011): The ERA-Interim archive Version 2.0. ERA Report Series 1, http://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/8174-era-interim-archive-version-20
To cite the source of the data, you may use the following data citation:
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European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) (2011): The ERA-Interim reanalysis dataset, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) (accessed <insert date of access here>), available from https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/archive-datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era-interim |
If no specific advice is given by the journals, it is usually recommended that the above data citation is put in the acknowledgements section.
Reports
2004-2007
- IFS Documentation CY31R1 (model used to produced ERA-Interim)
2008
- Technical Memo: 575: Variational bias correction in ERA-Interim
2009
- ERA Report series: 1: The ERA-Interim archive Version 1.0
2010
- ERA Report series: 2: On the quality of the ERA-Interim ozone reanalyses; Part 1 Comparisons with in situ measurements
- ERA Report series: 3: On the quality of the ERA-Interim ozone reanalyses; Part 2 Comparisons with satellites data
- ERA Report series: 4: List of observations assimilated in ERA-40 and ERA-Interim (v1.0)
- ERA Report series: 5: Evaluation of ERA-Interim and ERA-Interim-GPCP-rescaled precipitation over the U.S.A.
- ERA Report series: 6: Evaluation of ERA-Interim forcing fluxes from an ocean perspective
2011
- ERA Report series: 1: The ERA-Interim archive Version 2.0
- ERA Report series: 7: Data usage and quality control for ERA-40, ERA-Interim and the operational ECMWF data assimilation system
- ERA Report series: 8: Radiosonde temperature bias correction in ERA-Interim
- ERA Report series: 10: Forecast drift in ERA-Interim
- ERA Report series: 12: Atmospheric conservation properties in ERA-Interim
ERA-Interim Daily Climatology. Product description and basic validation. Compiled by Martin Janoušek, ECMWF, January 2011
2014
- ERA Report series: 15: Estimating low-frequency variability and trends in atmospheric temperature using ERA-Interim (Revised 2014)
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To acknowledge the ERA-Interim data, please refer to the ERA-Interim licence for details on the wording to use.
To cite the source of the data, you may use the following data citation (as part of the bibliography):
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European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) (2011): The ERA-Interim reanalysis dataset, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) (accessed <insert date of access here>), available from https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/archive-datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era-interim |
If no specific advice is given by the journals, it is usually recommended that the above data citation is put in the acknowledgements section.
Reports
2004-2007
- IFS Documentation CY31R1 (model used to produced ERA-Interim)
2008
- Technical Memo: 575: Variational bias correction in ERA-Interim
2009
- ERA Report series: 1: The ERA-Interim archive Version 1.0
2010
- ERA Report series: 2: On the quality of the ERA-Interim ozone reanalyses; Part 1 Comparisons with in situ measurements
- ERA Report series: 3: On the quality of the ERA-Interim ozone reanalyses; Part 2 Comparisons with satellites data
- ERA Report series: 4: List of observations assimilated in ERA-40 and ERA-Interim (v1.0)
- ERA Report series: 5: Evaluation of ERA-Interim and ERA-Interim-GPCP-rescaled precipitation over the U.S.A.
- ERA Report series: 6: Evaluation of ERA-Interim forcing fluxes from an ocean perspective
2011
- ERA Report series: 1: The ERA-Interim archive Version 2.0
- ERA Report series: 7: Data usage and quality control for ERA-40, ERA-Interim and the operational ECMWF data assimilation system
- ERA Report series: 8: Radiosonde temperature bias correction in ERA-Interim
- ERA Report series: 10: Forecast drift in ERA-Interim
- ERA Report series: 12: Atmospheric conservation properties in ERA-Interim
ERA-Interim Daily Climatology. Product description and basic validation. Compiled by Martin Janoušek, ECMWF, January 2011
2014
- ERA Report series: 15: Estimating low-frequency variability and trends in atmospheric temperature using ERA-Interim (Revised 2014)
References
Please use this as the main scientific reference to ERA-Interim:
Dee, D. P., Uppala, S. M., Simmons, A. J., Berrisford, P., Poli, P., Kobayashi, S., Andrae, U., Balmaseda, M. A., Balsamo, G., Bauer, P., Bechtold, P., Beljaars, A. C. M., van de Berg, L., Bidlot, J., Bormann, N., Delsol, C., Dragani, R., Fuentes, M., Geer, A. J., Haimberger, L., Healy, S. B., Hersbach, H., Hólm, E. V., Isaksen, L., Kållberg, P., Köhler, M., Matricardi, M., McNally, A. P., Monge-Sanz, B. M., Morcrette, J.-J., Park, B.-K., Peubey, C., de Rosnay, P., Tavolato, C., Thépaut, J.-N. and Vitart, F. (2011), The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 137: 553–597. doi: 10.1002/qj.828
For a more technical documentation of the contents of the ERA-Interim dataset please use:
Berrisford, P, Dee, DP, Poli, P, Brugge, R, Fielding, K, Fuentes, M, Kållberg, PW, Kobayashi, S, Uppala, S, Simmons, A (2011): The ERA-Interim archive Version 2.0. ERA Report Series 1, http://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/8174-era-interim-archive-version-20
- Berrisford, P., P. Kållberg, S. Kobayashi, D. Dee, S. Uppala, A. J. Simmons, P. Poli, and H. Sato, 2011: Atmospheric conservation properties in ERA-Interim. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 137: 1381–1399. doi: 10.1002/qj.864
- Dee, D. P., and Coauthos, 2011: The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 137: 553–597. doi:10.1002/qj.828
- Further references available from the ECMWF e-library
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