ERA5-Land Variables

The following table contains all variable names that can be used for the era5land download and era5land reshuffle programs.

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

Variable	Short Name	D efault
10 metre U wind component	u10	0
10 metre V wind component	v10	0
2 metre dewpoint temperature	d2m	1
2 metre temperature	t2m	1
Evaporation from bare soil	evabs	1
Evaporation from open water surfaces excluding oceans	evaow	1
Evaporation from the top of canopy	evatc	1
Evaporation from vegetation transpiration	evavt	1
Forecast albedo	fal	1
Lake bottom temperature	lblt	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
Leaf area index high vegetation	lai_hv	1
Leaf area index low vegetation	lai_lv	1
Potential evaporation	pev	1
Runoff	ro	1
Skin reservoir content	src	1
Skin temperature	skt	1
Snow albedo	asn	1
Snow Cover	snowc	1
Snow density	rsn	1
Snow depth	sd	1
Snow Depth Water Equivalent	swe	1
Snow evaporation	es	1
Snowfall	sf	1
Snowmelt	smlt	1
Soil temperature level 1	stl1	1
Soil temperature level 2	stl2	1
Soil temperature level 3	stl3	1
Soil temperature level 4	stl4	1
Sub-surface runoff	ssro	1
Surface latent heat flux	slhf	1
Surface net solar radiation	ssr	1
Surface net thermal radiation	str	1
Surface pressure	sp	1
Surface runoff	sro	1
Surface sensible heat flux	sshf	1
Surface solar radiation downwards	ssrd	1
Surface thermal radiation downwards	strd	1
Temperature of snow layer	tsn	1
Evaporation	e	1
Total precipitation	tp	1
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