Web-MARS is a set of web applications giving you can access to the MARS archive through your web browser e.g. by browsing the catalogue of archive content, retrieving data etc. As Web-MARS relies on the archive's meta data, the interface offers the best description of the actual archive content.
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- Check for availability
- View the MARS request
- Estimate download size
- Retrive Retrieve the selection in GRIB or NetCDF (experimental)
Web-MARS should mainly be used to locate particular data in the archive rather than to retrieve huge data volumes from MARS: Start with the most suitable archive 'view' to search for the data you are interested in, once you are on the last page (and probably after you have checked the availability of the data) choose the second option above, 'View the MARS request', and use the piece of MARS request, e.g. with further modifications to the date keyword, with the mars command in a batch job. The usage of the mars command and the MARS language are explained in some detail in the following sections.
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