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- Why can't I download the most recent data?
Because of the data policy restricting the access to the TIGGE data with a delay of 48 hours after initial time of the forecasts (TIGGE data usage licence)
- How can I use TIGGE if I can't read GRIB2 format data?
Several tools are available to convert GRIB2 data to NETCDF, and also to use the data in either the original GRIB2 format or NETCDF - for more information, please see the links on the tools page.
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- How to retrieve daily total precipitation?
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One could use Total precipitation archived to get daily total precipitation using forecast initialized at 00 UTC and selecting 24 hour step as shown in the request below:
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#!/usr/bin/env python
from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer
server = ECMWFDataServer()
server.retrieve({
"class": "ti",
"dataset": "tigge",
"date": "2019-01-01/to/2019-01-31",
"expver": "prod",
"grid": "0.5/0.5",
"levtype": "sfc",
"origin": "ecmf",
"param": "228228",
"step": "24",
"time": "00:00:00",
"type": "fc",
"target": "output",
}) |
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