units of daily rainfall in ERA-40

[Mandelli Alessandro]

Vincent MORON wrote:
> Hello
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> I am working on ERA-40 daily fields retrieved from the ECMWF web site. I
> would like to know if someone knows the units of rainfall daily data and
> how to convert in mm/day ?

http://www.ecmwf.int/research/demeter/news/demeter_list5.pdf

Based on the above, precipitation is expressed in meters/day.