We have been informed that an issue has been identified in the Near surface meteorological variables from 1979 to 2019 derived from bias-corrected reanalysis v2.0 dataset (aka WFDE5 v2.0).
An error has been reported for the variable Near-surface specific humidity (kg kg-1), in regions/times where/when T < 0. The methodology used to calculate this variable needs to be corrected.
We are in the process of documenting the issue. A correction may be applied to the data in which case a new version of the data will be released in early 2022.
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