Note that correlation is for overlapping period. Statistics are for all of the plotted time-series
Correlation is 0.985612 RMS Difference is 0.0524004

Closest lat/lon centers for dataset 1 bounds are: Lat: -90 to 90 Lon: 0 to 358.5
Closest lat/lon centers for dataset 2 bounds are: Lat: -89 to 89 Lon: 1 to 359

Time-series Statistics Statistic Type ERA5 2m Air Temperature GISTEMP 2m Air Temperature Mean: 0.355679 0.351948 Standard Deviation: 0.306979 0.296121 Skewness: 0.453124 0.394876 Kurtosis: -0.129812 -0.196105 Slope*: 0.0248746 0.0238823

Output Products Time-series 1 values (Data table, CSV, NetCDF) Time-series 2 values (Data table, CSV, NetCDF) Postscript plot

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Plotted using the ERA5 and the GISTEMP datasets
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^*Slope: Calculated from the NCL routine , which does a least-squares fit. Slope is given in units of 'per year'. Slope may be calculated with missing values depending on your selections of dataset, level, and variable.

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