Temperature and wind speed time series on a 50 km^2 grid in Europe

This spatio-temporal dataset contains weather timeseries for locations on a grid with 50km edge length in Europe. The data is resolved in one hour timesteps and comprises the years 2000-2018. It has been generated directly from the MERRA-2 reanalysis dataset.

This data serves as an input to the Sector-Coupled Euro-Calliope model and has been generated to match the spatial resolution of the renewable energy generation capacity factors found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3891480.

temperature.nc: air temperature at 2m above ground in degrees C.

tsoil5.nc: soil temperature at layer 5 in degrees C.

wind10m.nc: wind speed at 10m above ground in m/s.

grid.nc: provides the latitude and longitude of each grid (a.k.a. "site") centroid. This data is also given in every other dataset, but is provided here as a lightweight alternative to align other datasets to the same grid spacing.

Changelog

2024-06-07:

• Moved data variables to dataset attributes where the same data was duplicated per gridcell.
• Added units to file attributes.
• Updated `tsoil5` variable name from `soil_temperture_5` to `tsoil5`. Now all timeseries data variables have names that match the filename. 
• Updated `tsoil5` variable from Kelvin to degrees C.
• Updated `tsoil5` variable empty data (when gridcell is not over land) from zero to NaN.
• Added `grid.nc`.
• Removed `electricity` variable from `wind10m.nc`, leaving only wind speed as the available timeseries data in the file.