CMORizer recipes#

Overview#

These are CMORizer recipes calling CMORizer diagnostic scripts.

ESMValCore supports ERA5 hourly and monthly datasets in their native format, see Datasets in native format. and ERA5 data documentation. It may be useful in some cases to create ERA5 daily CMORized data. This can be achieved by using a CMORizer recipe, see recipe_daily_era5.yml. This recipe reads native, hourly ERA5 data, performs a daily aggregation preprocessor, and then calls a diagnostic that operates on the data. In this example, the diagnostic renames the files to the standard OBS6 file names. The output are thus daily, CMORized ERA5 data, that can be used through the OBS6 project. As such, this example recipe creates a local pool of CMORized data. The advantage, in this case, is that the daily aggregation is performed only once, which can save a lot of time and compute if it is used often.

The example CMORizer recipe can be run like any other ESMValTool recipe:

esmvaltool run cmorizers/recipe_daily_era5.yml

Note that the recipe_daily_era5.yml adds the next day of the new year to the input data. This is because one of the fixes needed for the ERA5 data is to shift the time axis of non-instantaneous variables half an hour back in time, resulting in a missing record on the last day of the year. ERA5 data can be downloaded using era5cli.

Available recipes and diagnostics#

Recipes are stored in esmvaltool/recipes/

  • cmorizers/recipe_daily_era5.yml

Diagnostics are stored in esmvaltool/diag_scripts/

  • cmorizers/era5.py: generates output filename

User settings in recipe#

  1. cmorizers/recipe_daily_era5.yml

    Required add_one_day preprocessor settings:

    • start_year: 1990

    • start_month: 1

    • start_day: 1

    • end_year: 1991

    • end_month: 1

    • end_day: 1

These settings should not be changed
  • daily_mean:

    operator: mean

  • daily_min:

    operator: min

  • daily_max:

    operator: max

Variables#

  1. cmorizers/recipe_daily_era5.yml

    • clt

    • evspsbl

    • evspsblpot

    • mrro

    • pr

    • prsn

    • ps

    • psl

    • rlds

    • rls

    • rsds

    • rsdt

    • rss

    • tas

    • tasmax

    • tasmin

    • tdps

    • ts

    • tsn

    • uas

    • vas

References#

  • Hersbach, H., et al., Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 730, 1999-2049, doi:10.1002/qj.3803, 2020.