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The ROM SAF datasets can be retrieved using web-api from from the ECMWF public datasets service. web-api is a "programmatic approach" for data download with python scripts.  The basic web-api documentation for accessing the data is given 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 in order 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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General information related to downloading the data via web-api, is described here:

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