ERA5Flux: Improve the Utility of ERA5-Land Data at AmeriFlux Site Locations

Collection of tools useful for workflows involving ERA5-Land and AmeriFlux data. Includes functions for downloading ERA5-Land data based on AmeriFlux sites, formatting the downloaded data to match AmeriFlux standards, merging both datasets together to ensure consistent timestamps, and blending them to create a single gap-filled time series. For more details, visit the Climate Data Store's catalogue entry for ERA5-Land at <https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-land> and the AmeriFlux homepage at <https://ameriflux.lbl.gov>.

Version: 1.0.0
Imports: curl, dplyr, ecmwfr, lubridate, lutz, ncdf4, purrr, readr, readxl, stats, terra
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, sf
Published: 2026-10-20
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ERA5Flux (may not be active yet)
Author: Angel Chen [aut, cre] (angelchen7.github.io), Sam Jurado ORCID iD [aut], David E Reed ORCID iD [aut], Ammara Talib ORCID iD [aut], Junna Wang ORCID iD [aut], Boya Zhang ORCID iD [aut], Sparkle L Malone ORCID iD [aut], National Science Foundation [fnd] (NSF 2047687), Yale School of the Environment [fnd], Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture [fnd], Malone Disturbance Ecology Lab [cph]
Maintainer: Angel Chen <angel777chen at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/Malone-Disturbance-Ecology-Lab/ERA5Flux/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/Malone-Disturbance-Ecology-Lab/ERA5Flux, https://malone-disturbance-ecology-lab.github.io/ERA5Flux/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: ERA5Flux results

Documentation:

Reference manual: ERA5Flux.html , ERA5Flux.pdf
Vignettes: Getting Started (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: ERA5Flux_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: ERA5Flux_1.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: ERA5Flux_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): ERA5Flux_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ERA5Flux_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): ERA5Flux_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ERA5Flux_1.0.0.tgz

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