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If you haven't done it yet you will need to create an ECMWF web account and accept the data licence. (broken link)

Example

Total aerosol optical depth at 550 nm in NetCDF format, only European domain, 10 dates, day 1 forecast (broken link in code example)

Code Block
languagepy
titleNetCDF
#!/usr/bin/env python
from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer
server = ECMWFDataServer()

server.retrieve({
    "dataset":   "cams_esuite-global-atmospheric-composition-forecasts-test",
    "stream":    "oper",
    "type":      "fc",
    "date":      "2021070120230301/to/2021071020230310",
    "time":      "00",    
    "step":      "0/to/23/by/1",
    "levtype":   "sfc",
    "format":    "netcdf",
    "param" :    "aod550",         # see parameter table at http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/ftp-access-global-data (broken link)
    "grid":      "0.4/0.4",        # 0.4 x 0.4 regular lat-lon grid
    "area":      "70/-35/35/60",   # N/E/S/W area boundaries
    "target":    "/tmp/cams_test_20210720230301_10.nc"
})

FTP dissemination

The test dataset is available through ECPDS FTP dissemination systems in these directories:

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