- Background
- Access via web-api
The ROM SAF data is downloaded from the ECMWF public datasets service using web-api, which is a "programmatic approach" for data download 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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Need to sort out links to example scripts.
