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The objective of this example is to demonstrate how to iterate efficiently over all the available hindcastYears, hindcastMonths and hindcastDays for a BoM reforecast request
It can be used as a starting point, however you need to keep in mind that you have to adapt it to your needseg to set the keyword values according to your requirements ("param", "levtype", "step" etc).
In this way you can extend this request to download the whole S2S BoM reforecast. Don't forget to check BoM availability

Please note:

the most efficient way is to request all hindcastDates of a hindcastMonth, in one request, like the example below.
the variable "target" below is set to write all all hindcastDates of a hindcastMonth on the same target file. the variable target is set accordingly

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language	py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer
server = ECMWFDataServer()

origin = "ammc"
modelVersionDate = "2014-01-01"

def retrieve_BoM_reforecast():
    """
       A function to demonstrate how to iterate efficiently over all hindcastYears, hindcastMonths etc
       for a particular BoM_reforecast_request.
       Change the variables below to adapt the iteration to your needs 
    """
    hindcastYearStart = 1981
    hindcastYearEnd = 2013
    hindcastMonthStart = 1
    hindcastMonthEnd = 12
    hindcastDays = list(range(1, 27, 5)) # BoM availability is every 5 days: 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26 

    for hindcastYear in list(range(hindcastYearStart, hindcastYearEnd + 1)):
        for hindcastMonth in list(range(hindcastMonthStart, hindcastMonthEnd + 1)):
            hindcastDates = []
            for hindcastDay in hindcastDays:
                hindcastDate = '%04d%02d%02d' % (
                    hindcastYear, hindcastMonth, hindcastDay)
                hindcastDates.append(hindcastDate)
            target = "%s%04d%02d.grb" % (origin, hindcastYear, hindcastMonth)
            BoM_reforecast_request("/".join(hindcastDates), target)

def BoM_reforecast_request(hindcastDate, target):
    """
       A BoM reforecast request. Change the keywords below to adapt it to your needs.
    """
    server.retrieve({
        "class": "s2",
        "dataset": "s2s",
        "date": modelVersionDate,
        "expver": "prod",
        "hdate": hindcastDate,
        "levtype": "pl",
        "levelist": "500/700/850/925/1000",
        "origin": origin,
        "param": "130/156",
        "step": "24/to/720/by/24",
        "stream": "enfh",
        "target": target,
        "time": "00",
        "number": "1/to/32",
        "type": "pf",
    })

if __name__ == '__main__':
    retrieve_BoM_reforecast()

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