Dataset Card for Weather Analog Search

Dataset Description

This dataset contains processed MERRA2 (Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2) weather data focused on Western Europe. It includes two key variables:

Sea Level Pressure (SLP)
2-meter Temperature (T2M)

The data covers a geographic region bounded by:

Longitude: -15° to 0°
Latitude: 42° to 58°

Time Coverage

Start Date: January 1, 2019
End Date: December 31, 2021
Temporal Resolution: Daily

Data Format

NetCDF4 files
Each file contains a single day of data
File naming convention: MERRA2_SLP_T2M_YYYYMMDD.nc

Variables

SLP: Sea Level Pressure
T2M: 2-meter Temperature

Geographic Coverage

The dataset covers Western Europe with:

25 longitude points (-15° to 0°)
33 latitude points (42° to 58°)
Spatial resolution: ~0.625° x 0.5°

Data Source

The data is derived from NASA's MERRA2 reanalysis dataset, processed to extract specific variables and geographic region of interest.

Intended Use

This dataset is designed for weather analog search applications, allowing users to find historical weather patterns similar to current conditions in Western Europe.