On behalf of the Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council (PGRSC), we welcome you to Week 11 of our series to promote free GIS and remote sensing resources (webinars, instructional videos, technical manuals, e-books, etc.) to increase capacity, awareness, and skill development for the Pacific Islands geospatial community. Last week, we provided a recap of the first 10 weeks of free resources that we posted. This week we will explore the Copernicus ERA5 Reanalysis Dataset – a high-resolution, global, and hourly atmospheric, land, and ocean dataset, which are used to generate drought indicators.
Week 11: Are you interested in looking at high-resolution drought indicators that date back from 1940 to present? The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) ERA5 Reanalysis Dataset provides hourly estimates of multiple atmospheric, land and oceanic climate variables from the surface up to a height of 80km. The dataset also provides uncertainty metrics for all variables at reduced spatial and temporal resolutions.
The ERA5 Reanalysis Dataset can be found at:
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5
We hope that these materials are beneficial to you. Please let us know if you have a free GIS or remote sensing resource that you would like to promote as well so others can learn from them.