Please note that this catalogue entry is no longer supported. Users are encouraged to use this catalogue <a href="./cdsapp#!/dataset/sis-energy-derived-reanalysis?tab=overview"target="_blank">entry containing operational climate and energy indicators for the European energy sector based on ERA5 reanalysis.
The dataset contains wind speed, precipitation, relative humidity, global horizontal irradiance, sea level pressure, air temperature, snow depth and dewpoint depression near-surface data relevant to energy industry for the European domain for the period 1979-2016.
The dataset is mostly derived from 6-hourly ERA-Interim reanalysis dataset by bias adjusting against observations using different methods. Data are then aggregated on daily, monthly, seasonal and annual averages. For wind speed, the field at 10 metres was bias-adjusted and then extrapolated to 100 metres using a stability-dependent logarithmic scaling.
The dataset was generated by one of the Sectoral Information System (SIS) proof of concept contracts led by the University of East Anglia to the the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The aim of the European Climatic Energy Mixes (ECEM) contract – which worked in close collaboration with a set of prospective users – was to enable the energy industry and policy makers to assess how well different energy supply mixes in Europe will meet demand, over different time horizons from seasonal to long-term decadal, focusing on the role climate has on the mixes.