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The ROM SAF data is downloaded from the ECMWF public datasets service using web-api, which is a "programmatic approach" for data download using with python scripts . We will not reproduce the all existing documentation here, but we will note some key steps required to download the data and provide the main links. Firstly, you will need to download the appropriate python modules to run the python download scripts. For example, the python scripts will contain"from ecmwfapi import" commands, like in this simple example, retrieving a monthly mean zonal wind at 1000 hPa, in netcdf format (More complex retrieval scripts are provided here):

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You will now have the modules needed in the python scripts. (I actually needed this command for the ECMWF system pip install --user ecmwf-api-client because of local permssionspermissions).

Login and retrieve your "key":

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