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For the time being and until further notice,ERA-Interim (1st January 1979 to 31st August 2019) shall continue to be accessibleaccess through the ECMWF Web API stopped on 01 June 2023 Its successor . ERA5 is now available from the Climate Data Store (CDS) (What are the changes from ERA-Interim to ERA5?) and users are strongly advised to migrate to ERA5 (How to download ERA5). For those users who still need access to ERA-Interim after 01 June 2023 (subject to further notice), they can do so via the Climate Data Store (CDS) API. |
ERA-Interim and ERA-Interim/Land are two ECMWF Re-Analysis datasets. The main difference between ERA-interim and ERA-Interim/Land is the version of the TESSEL land-surface model (Tiled ECMWF Scheme for Surface Exchanges over Land).
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Soil moisture is available in both datasets with values typically between 0.1 and 0.4 in cubic meter water per cubic meter volume. ERA-Interim/Land should be preferred over ERA-Interim and make sure to select 'Analysis' when downloading the ERA-Interim/Land data.
For detailed documentation see Balsamo et al., 2012.
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