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Technical note
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09 Jul 2024
Technical note |
| 09 Jul 2024
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Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling
Margarita Choulga
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Research Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, RG2 9AX, United Kingdom
Francesca Moschini
Forecast Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, RG2 9AX, United Kingdom
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra, 21027, Italy
Cinzia Mazzetti
Forecast Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, RG2 9AX, United Kingdom
Stefania Grimaldi
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra, 21027, Italy
Juliana Disperati
Fincons SPA, Fincons Group AG, Vimercate, 20871, Italy
Hylke Beck
Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Peter Salamon
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra, 21027, Italy
Christel Prudhomme
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Forecast Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, RG2 9AX, United Kingdom
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Short summary
CEMS_SurfaceFields_2022 dataset is a new set of high-resolution maps for land type (e.g. lake, forest), soil properties and population water needs at approximately 2 and 6 km at the Equator, covering Europe and the globe (excluding Antarctica). We describe what and how new high-resolution information can be used to create the dataset. The paper suggests that the dataset can be used as input for river, weather or other models, as well as for statistical descriptions of the region of interest.
CEMS_SurfaceFields_2022 dataset is a new set of high-resolution maps for land type (e.g. lake,...
