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Background

The EUMETSAT ROM SAF has produced two atmospheric reanalyses as part of its CDOP-2 activities. These reanalyses were recommended by the IROWG climate subgroup (see recommendation 6 to CGMS, in section 4.2), where is was stated that:

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This atmospheric reanalysis data is available for the surface, on 37 fixed pressure levels and 137 model levels.

Access to the ROM SAF data using web-api

The ROM SAF datasets can be retrieved using the ECMWF web-api service. The web-api is a "programmatic approach" for data download using python scripts. Frequently asked web-api questions (FAQs) can be found here.

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https://pypi.org/project/ecmwf-api-client/

Retrieval efficiency when using web-api

The importance retrieval efficiency when using web-api is discussed here. This page includes web-api retrieval examples for other reanalyses, such as ERA5

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