Hello,

I'm trying to get hourly liquid precipitation and solid precipitation from the ERA5 hourly data on single levels dataset.  I'm doing this by downloading the "Mean total precipitation rate" and "Precipitation type" variables, and using the precipitation type variable to determine if the precipitation should be classified as liquid or solid.  The problem is that there are many cases where the precipitation type for a given timestamp and location is 0 when the precipitation rate for that same timestamp and location is non-zero.  The description for the precipitation type variable (here) states that a value of 0 means no precipitation, so it seems like there may be some inconsistencies between precipitation type and mean total precipitation rate.

Does anyone have a suggestion for how I should handle this case?  If not, are there different variables I should be using instead to get hourly liquid precipitation and solid precipitation?

Thank you!

- Jordan