Evaporation from vegetation transpiration in ERA5-Land is wrong

Hello everyone,

Recently, i have been doing some analysis with transpiration, using Evaporation from vegetation transpiration in ERA5-Land Monthly. However, i found a wrong, namely the transpiration data is not transpiration, yet it is evaporation from water sufaces.

evavt     
           Size:       3600x1801x216
           Dimensions: longitude,latitude,valid_time
           Datatype:   single
           Attributes:
                       _FillValue                              = NaN
                       GRIB_paramId                            = 228103
                       GRIB_dataType                           = 'fc'
                       GRIB_numberOfPoints                     = 6483600
                       GRIB_typeOfLevel                        = 'surface'
                       GRIB_stepUnits                          = 1
                       GRIB_gridType                           = 'regular_ll'
                       GRIB_uvRelativeToGrid                   = 0
                       GRIB_NV                                 = 0
                       GRIB_Nx                                 = 3600
                       GRIB_Ny                                 = 1801
                       GRIB_cfName                             = 'unknown'
                       GRIB_cfVarName                          = 'evavt'
                       GRIB_gridDefinitionDescription          = 'Latitude/longitude'
                       GRIB_iDirectionIncrementInDegrees       = 0.1
                       GRIB_iScansNegatively                   = 0
                       GRIB_jDirectionIncrementInDegrees       = 0.1
                       GRIB_jPointsAreConsecutive              = 0
                       GRIB_jScansPositively                   = 0
                       GRIB_latitudeOfFirstGridPointInDegrees  = 90
                       GRIB_latitudeOfLastGridPointInDegrees   = -90
                       GRIB_longitudeOfFirstGridPointInDegrees = 0
                       GRIB_longitudeOfLastGridPointInDegrees  = 359.9
                       GRIB_missingValue                       = 3.402823466385289e+38
                       GRIB_name                               = 'Evaporation from vegetation transpiration'
                       GRIB_shortName                          = 'evavt'
                       GRIB_units                              = 'm of water equivalent'
                       long_name                               = 'Evaporation from vegetation transpiration'
                       units                                   = 'm of water equivalent'
                       standard_name                           = 'unknown'
                       GRIB_surface                            = 0
                       coordinates                             = 'time latitude longitude expver'

I want to know how i download the correct transpiration data in ERA5-Land.

Thank you for any answers.

With kind regards,

Liu

Hi,
please look at known issue number 3 at the following page:

Thanks