MARS

Specifies the analysis date, the forecast base date or observation date.

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• Absolute as YYYY-MM-DD, YYYYMMDD. The day of the year can also be used: YYYY-DDD
• Relative as -n ; n is the number of days before today (i.e., -1 = yesterday )
• Name of month (e.g. January for Climatology data)
• Operational monthly means are retrieved by setting day (DD) to 00.

Examples

For ODB data the date refers to andate column, i.e. the date of the assimilation run.

Dissemination

Specifies the hindcast base date.

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