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How to cite the ERA5-Land dataset
(1) Please acknowledge the use of ERA5-Land as stated in the Copernicus C3S/CAMS License agreement:
"5.1.2 Where the Licensee communicates or distributes Copernicus Products to the public, the Licensee shall inform the recipients of the source by using the following or any similar notice: 'Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service Information [Year]'.
5.1.3 Where the Licensee makes or contributes to a publication or distribution containing adapted or modified Copernicus Products, the Licensee shall provide the following or any similar notice: 'Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service Information [Year]';
Any such publication or distribution covered by clauses 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 shall state that neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus Information or Data it contains."
(2) cite the ERA5-Land dataset (as part of the bibliography) as follows:
- For "ERA5-Land hourly data from 1950 to present" downloaded from the Climate Data Store:
Muñoz Sabater, J., (2019): ERA5-Land hourly data from 1981 to present. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). (Accessed on < DD-MMM-YYYY >), 10.24381/cds.e2161bac
Muñoz Sabater, J., (2021): ERA5-Land hourly data from 1950 to 1980. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). (Accessed on < DD-MMM-YYYY >), 10.24381/cds.e2161bac
- For "ERA5-Land monthly averaged data from 1950 to present" downloaded from the Climate Data Store:
Muñoz Sabater, J., (2019): ERA5-Land monthly averaged data from 1981 to present. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). (Accessed on < DD-MMM-YYYY >), 10.24381/cds.68d2bb3
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All users of data on the Climate Data Store (CDS) (using either the web interface or the CDS API) must provide clear and visible attribution to the Copernicus programme and are asked to cite and reference the dataset provider:
Step 1: Acknowledge according to the licence to use Copernicus Products.
Step 2: Provide clear and visible attribution to the Copernicus program using the CDS web catalogue entry citation (see link to "Citation" under References on the Overview page of the dataset entry and use the citation under "Citing the web catalogue entry").
Step 3: Cite each dataset used as indicated on the relevant CDS entries (see link to "Citation" under References on the Overview page of the dataset entry and use the citation under "Citing the data").
Throughout the content of your publication, the dataset used is referred to as Author (YYYY)
The 3-steps procedure above is illustrated with this example: Use Case 1: ERA5-Land hourly data from 1950 to present
For complete details, please refer to How to acknowledge and cite a Climate Data Store (CDS) catalogue entry and the data published as part of it.
Reference articles
J. Muñoz-Sabater, Dutra, E., Agustí-Panareda, A., Albergel, C., Arduini, G., Balsamo, G., Boussetta, S., Choulga, M., Harrigan, S., Hersbach, H., Martens, B., Miralles, D. G., Piles, M., Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Zsoter, E., Buontempo, C., and Thépaut, J.-N.: ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications, Earth Syst. Sci. Data,13, 4349–4383, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021.
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