I have a question about the ERA5 datasets and how to understand them. I am using the netCDF4 library to open the downloaded .nc files in python. When using the previous api to get the daily files the e.g. u_wind variable would have a scale_factor and an add_offset parameter. These parameters are not present in the same-day file when I use the beta version. The values between the two files are almost identical (not identical though).
I wanted to check what is the correct way to get the actual readings. Should I manually scale the data with these parameters and if yes why can’t I access them in the ‘new’ (using the beta api) files?