MÉRA (Met Éireann ReAnalysis) Climate Reanalysis

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Climate reanalysis is a systematic approach used to produce meteorological datasets for climate monitoring and research. They are created using a fixed version of a forecast model and a data assimilation system which utilises historical observations and they produce parameters that are physically consistent and often not routinely observed. Thus, climate reanalyses have the potential to extend the knowledge gained from current observation networks.

Met Éireann has carried out a 35-year very high resolution (2.5 km horizontal grid) regional climate reanalysis for Ireland using the ALADIN-HIRLAM numerical weather prediction system (www.hirlam.org). This reanalysis spans the period 1981 to 2015 and includes surface, near-surface and atmospheric parameters and is the first of its kind for Ireland. See here for more detail Technical Note 65: http://edepositireland.ie/handle/2262/81711

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GRIB 1
Please contact mera@met.ie to access the data.
Data Owner Met Éireann MÉRA Team
Data Owner Email mera@met.ie
Theme Environment
Date released 2017-04-11
Date updated 2017-04-11
Dataset conforms to these standards FM 92 GRIB edition 1
Rights notes Terms and Conditions: • Met Éireann retains Intellectual Property Rights and copyright over our data. • Met Éireann must be acknowledged (attributed) as the source. • Met Éireann does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use. • Users must remove attribution if requested by Met Éireann. Attribution Met Éireann data and its derivatives must be accredited with the following 5 statements. 1. Copyright statement: Copyright Met Éireann 2. Source www.met.ie 3. Licence Statement: This data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 4. Disclaimer: Met Éireann does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use. 5. Where applicable, an indication if the material has been modified and an indication of previous modifications
Update frequency Monthly
Language English
Landing page https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/mera
Geographic coverage in GeoJSON format {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-15.817363366740963, 46.488714524677874], [-15.81734696844788, 46.48860077506238], [-15.817562981570463, 46.4885859187614], [-15.81757938030537, 46.488699668318226], [-15.817363366740963, 46.488714524677874]]]}
Geographic coverage Ireland, the United Kingdom, and an area of northern France
Spatial Reference Systems (SRS) ETRS89 (EPSG:4936)
Spatial Resolution(s) 2.5km
Vertical Extent Surface to 10hPa
Provenance information Met Éireann has carried out a 35-year very high resolution (2.5 km horizontal grid) regional climate reanalysis for Ireland using the ALADIN-HIRLAM numerical weather prediction system (www.hirlam.org). This reanalysis spans the period 1981 to 2015 and includes surface, near-surface and atmospheric parameters.
Period of time covered (begin) 1981-01-01
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