ERA5 Variables

The following table contains all variable names that can be used for the era5 download and era5 reshuffle programs.

Note that the “default” column indicates which variables are downloaded if none are specified.

Variable	Short Name	Def ault
100 metre U wind component	u100	0
100 metre V wind component	v100	0
Neutral wind at 10 m u-component	u10n	0
10 metre U wind component	u10	0
Neutral wind at 10 m v-component	v10n	0
10 metre V wind component	v10	0
10 metre wind gust since previous post-processing	fg10	0
2 metre dewpoint temperature	d2m	0
2 metre temperature	t2m	0
Air density over the oceans	p140209	0
Angle of sub-gridscale orography	anor	0
Anisotropy of sub-gridscale orography	isor	0
Benjamin-Feir index	bfi	0
Boundary layer dissipation	bld	0
Boundary layer height	blh	0
Charnock	chnk	0
Clear-sky direct solar radiation at surface	cdir	0
Cloud base height	cbh	0
Coefficient of drag with waves	cdww	0
Convective available potential energy	cape	0
Convective inhibition	cin	0
Convective precipitation	cp	0
Convective rain rate	crr	0
Convective snowfall	csf	0
Convective snowfall rate water equivalent	csfr	1
Downward UV radiation at the surface	uvb	0
Duct base height	dctb	0
Eastward gravity wave surface stress	lgws	0
Eastward turbulent surface stress	ewss	0
Evaporation	e	1
Forecast albedo	fal	0
Forecast logarithm of surface roughness for heat	flsr	0
Forecast surface roughness	fsr	0
Free convective velocity over the oceans	p140208	0
Friction velocity	zust	0
Geopotential	z	0
Gravity wave dissipation	gwd	0
High cloud cover	hcc	0
High vegetation cover	cvh	0
Ice temperature layer 1	istl1	0
Ice temperature layer 2	istl2	0
Ice temperature layer 3	istl3	0
Ice temperature layer 4	istl4	0
Instantaneous 10 metre wind gust	i10fg	0
Instantaneous eastward turbulent surface stress	iews	0
Instantaneous large-scale surface precipitation fraction	ilspf	0
Instantaneous moisture flux	ie	0
Instantaneous northward turbulent surface stress	inss	0
Instantaneous surface sensible heat flux	ishf	0
K index	kx	0
Lake bottom temperature	lblt	0
Lake cover	cl	0
Lake depth	dl	0
Lake ice depth	licd	0
Lake ice temperature	lict	0
Lake mix-layer depth	lmld	0
Lake mix-layer temperature	lmlt	0
Lake shape factor	lshf	0
Lake total layer temperature	ltlt	0
Land-sea mask	lsm	1
Large-scale precipitation	lsp	0
Large-scale precipitation fraction	lspf	0
Large scale rain rate	lsrr	0
Large-scale snowfall	lsf	0
Large scale snowfall rate water equivalent	lssfr	1
Leaf area index, high vegetation	lai_hv	0
Leaf area index, low vegetation	lai_lv	0
Low cloud cover	lcc	0
Low vegetation cover	cvl	0
Maximum temperature at 2 metres since previous post-processing	mx2t	0
Maximum individual wave height	hmax	0
Maximum total precipitation rate since previous post-processing	mxtpr	0
Mean boundary layer dissipation	mbld	0
Mean convective precipitation rate	mcpr	0
Mean convective snowfall rate	mcsr	0
Mean direction of total swell	mdts	0
Mean direction of wind waves	mdww	0
Mean eastward gravity wave surface stress	megwss	0
Mean eastward turbulent surface stress	metss	0
Mean evaporation rate	mer	0
Mean gravity wave dissipation	mgwd	0
Mean large-scale precipitation fraction	mlspf	0
Mean large-scale precipitation rate	mlspr	0
Mean large-scale snowfall rate	mlssr	0
Mean northward gravity wave surface stress	mngwss	0
Mean northward turbulent surface stress	mntss	0
Mean period of total swell	mpts	0
Mean period of wind waves	mpww	0
Mean potential evaporation rate	mper	0
Mean runoff rate	mror	0
Mean sea level pressure	msl	0
Mean snow evaporation rate	mser	0
Mean snowfall rate	msr	0
Mean snowmelt rate	msmr	0
Mean square slope of waves	msqs	0
Mean sub-surface runoff rate	mssror	0
Mean surface direct short-wave radiation flux	msdrswrf	0
Mean surface direct short-wave radiation flux, clear sky	m sdrswrfcs	0
Mean surface downward long-wave radiation flux	msdwlwrf	0
Mean surface downward long-wave radiation flux, clear sky	m sdwlwrfcs	0
Mean surface downward short-wave radiation flux	msdwswrf	0
Mean surface downward short-wave radiation flux, clear sky	m sdwswrfcs	0
Mean surface downward UV radiation flux	msdwuvrf	0
Mean surface latent heat flux	mslhf	0
Mean surface net long-wave radiation flux	msnlwrf	0
Mean surface net long-wave radiation flux, clear sky	msnlwrfcs	0
Mean surface net short-wave radiation flux	msnswrf	0
Mean surface net short-wave radiation flux, clear sky	msnswrfcs	0
Mean surface runoff rate	msror	0
Mean surface sensible heat flux	msshf	0
Mean top downward short-wave radiation flux	mtdwswrf	0
Mean top net long-wave radiation flux	mtnlwrf	0
Mean top net long-wave radiation flux, clear sky	mtnlwrfcs	0
Mean top net short-wave radiation flux	mtnswrf	0
Mean top net short-wave radiation flux, clear sky	mtnswrfcs	0
Mean total precipitation rate	mtpr	0
Mean vertical gradient of refractivity inside trapping layer	dndza	0
Mean vertically integrated moisture divergence	mvimd	0
Mean wave direction	mwd	0
Mean wave direction of first swell partition	p140122	0
Mean wave direction of second swell partition	p140125	0
Mean wave direction of third swell partition	p140128	0
Mean wave period	mwp	0
Mean wave period based on first moment	mp1	0
Mean wave period based on first moment for swell	p1ps	0
Mean wave period based on first moment for wind waves	p1ww	0
Mean wave period based on second moment for swell	p2ps	0
Mean wave period based on second moment for wind waves	p2ww	0
Mean wave period of first swell partition	p140123	0
Mean wave period of second swell partition	p140126	0
Mean wave period of third swell partition	p140129	0
Mean zero-crossing wave period	mp2	0
Medium cloud cover	mcc	0
Minimum temperature at 2 metres since previous post-processing	mn2t	0
Minimum total precipitation rate since previous post-processing	mntpr	0
Minimum vertical gradient of refractivity inside trapping layer	dndzn	0
Model bathymetry	wmb	0
Near IR albedo for diffuse radiation	alnid	0
Near IR albedo for direct radiation	alnip	0
Normalized energy flux into ocean	phioc	0
Normalized energy flux into waves	phiaw	0
Normalized stress into ocean	tauoc	0
Northward gravity wave surface stress	mgws	0
Northward turbulent surface stress	nsss	0
Peak wave period	pp1d	0
Period corresponding to maximum individual wave height	tmax	0
Potential evaporation	pev	1
Precipitation type	ptype	0
Runoff	ro	0
Sea ice area fraction	siconc	0
Sea surface temperature	sst	0
Significant height of combined wind waves and swell	swh	0
Significant height of total swell	shts	0
Significant height of wind waves	shww	0
Significant wave height of first swell partition	p140121	0
Significant wave height of second swell partition	p140124	0
Significant wave height of third swell partition	p140127	0
Skin reservoir content	src	0
Skin temperature	skt	0
Slope of sub-gridscale orography	slor	0
Snow albedo	asn	0
Snow density	rsn	1
Snow depth	sd	1
Snow evaporation	es	0
Snowfall	sf	0
Snowmelt	smlt	0
Soil temperature level 1	stl1	1
Soil temperature level 2	stl2	1
Soil temperature level 3	stl3	1
Soil temperature level 4	stl4	1
Soil type	slt	1
Standard deviation of filtered subgrid orography	sdfor	0
Standard deviation of orography	sdor	0
Sub-surface runoff	ssro	0
Surface latent heat flux	slhf	0
Surface net solar radiation	ssr	0
Surface net solar radiation, clear sky	ssrc	0
Surface net thermal radiation	str	0
Surface net thermal radiation, clear sky	strc	0
Surface pressure	sp	0
Surface runoff	sro	0
Surface sensible heat flux	sshf	0
Surface solar radiation downward clear-sky	ssrdc	0
Surface solar radiation downwards	ssrd	0
Surface thermal radiation downward clear-sky	strdc	0
Surface thermal radiation downwards	strd	0
Temperature of snow layer	tsn	0
TOA incident solar radiation	tisr	0
Top net solar radiation	tsr	0
Top net solar radiation, clear sky	tsrc	0
Top net thermal radiation	ttr	0
Top net thermal radiation, clear sky	ttrc	0
Total cloud cover	tcc	0
Total column cloud ice water	tciw	0
Total column cloud liquid water	tclw	0
Total column ozone	tco3	0
Total column rain water	tcrw	0
Total column snow water	tcsw	0
Total column supercooled liquid water	tcslw	0
Total column water	tcw	0
Total column water vapour	tcwv	0
Total precipitation	tp	1
Total sky direct solar radiation at surface	fdir	0
Total totals index	totalx	0
Trapping layer base height	tplb	0
Trapping layer top height	tplt	0
Type of high vegetation	tvh	0
Type of low vegetation	tvl	0
U-component stokes drift	ust	0
UV visible albedo for diffuse radiation	aluvd	0
UV visible albedo for direct radiation	aluvp	0
V-component stokes drift	vst	0
Vertical integral of divergence of cloud frozen water flux	p80.162	0
Vertical integral of divergence of cloud liquid water flux	p79.162	0
Vertical integral of divergence of geopotential flux	p85.162	0
Vertical integral of divergence of kinetic energy flux	p82.162	0
Vertical integral of divergence of mass flux	p81.162	0
Vertical integral of divergence of moisture flux	p84.162	0
Vertical integral of divergence of ozone flux	p87.162	0
Vertical integral of divergence of thermal energy flux	p83.162	0
Vertical integral of divergence of total energy flux	p86.162	0
Vertical integral of eastward cloud frozen water flux	p90.162	0
Vertical integral of eastward cloud liquid water flux	p88.162	0
Vertical integral of eastward geopotential flux	p73.162	0
Vertical integral of eastward heat flux	p69.162	0
Vertical integral of eastward kinetic energy flux	p67.162	0
Vertical integral of eastward mass flux	p65.162	0
Vertical integral of eastward ozone flux	p77.162	0
Vertical integral of eastward total energy flux	p75.162	0
Vertical integral of eastward water vapour flux	p71.162	0
Vertical integral of energy conversion	p64.162	0
Vertical integral of kinetic energy	p59.162	0
Vertical integral of mass of atmosphere	p53.162	0
Vertical integral of mass tendency	p92.162	0
Vertical integral of northward cloud frozen water flux	p91.162	0
Vertical integral of northward cloud liquid water flux	p89.162	0
Vertical integral of northward geopotential flux	p74.162	0
Vertical integral of northward heat flux	p70.162	0
Vertical integral of northward kinetic energy flux	p68.162	0
Vertical integral of northward mass flux	p66.162	0
Vertical integral of northward ozone flux	p78.162	0
Vertical integral of northward total energy flux	p76.162	0
Vertical integral of northward water vapour flux	p72.162	0
Vertical integral of potential+internal energy	p61.162	0
Vertical integral of potential+internal+latent energy	p62.162	0
Vertical integral of temperature	p54.162	0
Vertical integral of thermal energy	p60.162	0
Vertical integral of total energy	p63.162	0
Vertically integrated moisture divergence	vimd	0
Volumetric soil water layer 1	swvl1	1
Volumetric soil water layer 2	swvl2	1
Volumetric soil water layer 3	swvl3	1
Volumetric soil water layer 4	swvl4	1
Wave spectral directional width	wdw	0
Wave spectral directional width for swell	dwps	0
Wave spectral directional width for wind waves	dwww	0
Wave spectral kurtosis	wsk	0
Wave spectral peakedness	wsp	0
Wave Spectral Skewness	wss	0
Zero degree level	deg0l	0