# ERA5 Daily data

**URL:** https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938
**Category:** Technical
**Tags:** help, duplicate
**Created:** [18 March 2024 01:40 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938 "2024-03-18T01:40:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author: ![Sramana1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/sramana1/32/3384_2.png) [@Sramana1](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/Sramana1)
#### Post date: [18 March 2024 01:40 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/1 "2024-03-18T01:40:40Z")

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Hello NRI,

I am trying to calculate daily statistics from hourly ERA5 data using xarray. When calculating this for large datasets, it is very very slow. I have tried a number of optimisation techniques (like using Dask), but the problem still seems to persist. I want to do this for multiple 4D variables in a time efficient manner and would love some help. I know there has already been some discussion about this on this forum, so apologies for any overlap!

I was wondering if there is a collection of daily statistics for some general variables from ERA5 hosted somewhere on gadi that can be accessed? Is this a dataset the NRI can help support?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,  
Sramana

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### Author: ![dougiesquire](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/dougiesquire/32/16_2.png) [@dougiesquire](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/dougiesquire)
#### Post date: [18 March 2024 01:58 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/2 "2024-03-18T01:58:40Z")

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Hi @Sramana1. I’m not sure about whether there are pre-computed daily statistics available, but this topic is very similar to [Efficient daily resampling using xarray](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/efficient-daily-resampling-using-xarray/233) and there is a [solution therein](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/efficient-daily-resampling-using-xarray/233/6) that may help to speed up your resampling with xarray.

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### Author: ![rbeucher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/rbeucher/32/11_2.png) [@rbeucher](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/rbeucher)
#### Post date: [18 March 2024 03:26 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/3 "2024-03-18T03:26:24Z")

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There are pre-computed daily variables available. I am looking for a place to make them available to the community.

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### Author: ![rbeucher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/rbeucher/32/11_2.png) [@rbeucher](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/rbeucher)
#### Post date: [25 March 2024 22:59 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/4 "2024-03-25T22:59:52Z")

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### Author: ![rbeucher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/rbeucher/32/11_2.png) [@rbeucher](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/rbeucher)
#### Post date: [27 March 2024 03:22 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/5 "2024-03-27T03:22:53Z")

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Hi @Sramana1,

Getting back to you regarding this.  
What variables do you need as a priority?

I gather from the hackathon notes that it would be

Tas  
MSLP  
Pr  
Ta  
Ua  
Va  
Wa  
hus  
Prw  
Clt  
rsut (sw)  
rlut (lw)  
rtnt

What do you think?

R

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### Author: ![rbeucher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/rbeucher/32/11_2.png) [@rbeucher](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/rbeucher)
#### Post date: [27 March 2024 03:25 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/6 "2024-03-27T03:25:53Z")

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I currently have:

vas, uas, ua, tasmin, tasmax, tas, rsds, rlds, psl, pr, tdps, rsdt

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### Author: ![Claire\_Vincent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Claire\_Vincent](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/Claire_Vincent)
#### Post date: [11 April 2024 23:12 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/7 "2024-04-11T23:12:10Z")

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Hi Romain,

Thanks so much for this! I would also like to access these variables. Where could I access them?

Claire

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### Author: ![Sramana1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/sramana1/32/3384_2.png) [@Sramana1](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/Sramana1)
#### Post date: [11 April 2024 23:26 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/8 "2024-04-11T23:26:45Z")

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Hi Romain,

Apologies for the very late reply.

Your list is pretty comprehensive, I love it! Thank you. Just another question, would the 3D variables like ta, ua, va etc be available on multiple levels or just one?

- Sramana

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### Author: ![schmidt-christina](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/schmidt-christina/32/116_2.png) [@schmidt-christina](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/schmidt-christina)
#### Post date: [15 April 2024 04:19 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/9 "2024-04-15T04:19:40Z")

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I need to analyze ERA5 winds at 10 m and was wondering where on gadi I can find the data. I could only find data for 2023 in `/g/data/ik11/inputs/ERA5/input/IAF/10u`

Can any of you, @rbeucher or @rmholmes point me to the right directory?

Thanks,  
Christina

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### Author: ![anton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/anton/32/1836_2.png) [@anton](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/anton)
#### Post date: [15 April 2024 04:30 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/10 "2024-04-15T04:30:16Z")

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Hi Christina - The data straight from ERA5 (3 hourly) is in `/g/data/rt52/era5/single-levels/reanalysis/` and [the link above](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/efficient-daily-resampling-using-xarray/233) might help to resample at a more useable frequency 🙂

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### Author: ![rbeucher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/rbeucher/32/11_2.png) [@rbeucher](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/rbeucher)
#### Post date: [29 April 2024 06:50 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/11 "2024-04-29T06:50:12Z")

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The daily data are not publicly accessible for now. I am looking at how we can make this happen ASAP.

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### Author: ![georgyfalster](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/georgyfalster/32/2293_2.png) [@georgyfalster](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/georgyfalster)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 21:53 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/12 "2024-05-15T21:53:33Z")

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Hi - it would be wonderful to have tp and/or mtpr as well

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### Author: ![georgyfalster](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/georgyfalster/32/2293_2.png) [@georgyfalster](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/georgyfalster)
#### Post date: [7 April 2025 00:35 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/14 "2025-04-07T00:35:19Z")

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hi @rbeucher - did anything ever come of this?! I am staring down the barrel of calculating daily precip (tp) but didn’t want to be reinventing that particular wheel if the daily data already exist somewhere.

thanks!

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### Author: ![rbeucher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/rbeucher/32/11_2.png) [@rbeucher](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/rbeucher)
#### Post date: [7 April 2025 00:50 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/15 "2025-04-07T00:50:07Z")

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Hi @georgyfalster ,

Yes, we released some variables in August last year:

> [@Official release of the ACCESS-NRI Replicated Datasets for Climate Model Evaluation NCI Data collection](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/official-release-of-the-access-nri-replicated-datasets-for-climate-model-evaluation-nci-data-collection/1661/7):
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> New Sub-collection: ESMValTool ERA5 Daily Datasets This is a prerelease dataset and consists of selected ERA5 variables presented at daily frequencies. The original hourly data from the “ERA5 hourly data on single levels” and “ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels” collections have been transformed into daily means using the ESMValTool (v2.10) Python package. Both the datasets and their associated metadata are provided in a format compatible with the ESMValTool Python package, which is supporte…

Data is available in ct11

For additional request, I suggest contacting @ClareCR

Romain

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### Author: ![rbeucher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/rbeucher/32/11_2.png) [@rbeucher](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/rbeucher)
#### Post date: [7 April 2025 00:52 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/16 "2025-04-07T00:52:25Z")

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Note that I use CMIP Control Vocabulary for the variable names

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### Author: ![rbeucher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/rbeucher/32/11_2.png) [@rbeucher](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/rbeucher)
#### Post date: [7 April 2025 22:20 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/era5-daily-data/1938/17 "2025-04-07T22:20:44Z")

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