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Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1207-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1207-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Brief communication
 | 
12 Mar 2024
Brief communication |  | 12 Mar 2024

Brief communication: Significant biases in ERA5 output for the McMurdo Dry Valleys region, Antarctica

Ricardo Garza-Girón and Slawek M. Tulaczyk

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1207-2024-supplement

Data sets

ERA5-Land hourly data from 1981 to present J. Muñoz Sabater https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.e2161bac

Near surface meteorological variables from 1979 to 2019 derived from bias-corrected reanalysis, version 2.1 M. Cucchi et al. https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.20d54e34

McMurdo-Dry-Valleys-LTER-Meteorological-Stations-Daily-Air-Temperature (v1.0.0) McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10783775

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Short summary
By analyzing temperature time series over more than 20 years, we have found a discrepancy between the 2 m temperature values reported by the ERA5 reanalysis and the automatic weather stations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.
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