What's the equivalent name of ERA5 monthly 10m wind speed in ERA5 hourly data?

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Hi, I’ve been using monthly mean ERA5 single level data for some analysis, but now require greater precision in time resolution. I am downloading thus the hourly data and aggregating them into daily averages.

I have been using the cdsapi so far. I’ve noticed that the component “10m_wind_speed” that exists in the monthly mean dataset does not exist in the hourly, which I found odd.

Is there an alternative equivalent name, or is the only way to obtain wind speed by getting both u and v components and calculating the wind speed as s = sqrt(u^2 + v^2) ?

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Hi,
please have a look here:
https://confluence.ecmwf.int/x/PmzxBw
Thanks

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thanks, given your reply, I take it that the answer is:

“there is no out-of-the-box wind speed data in the ERA5 hourly single-levels dataset. You need to download the two data for u and v components and calculate wind speed as s = sqrt(u^2 + v^2).”