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The dataset is covering the period from 1 5 Nov 2015 until 16 Dec 2015 25 Jan 2016 (status on 8 14 Mar 2016).

MARS

If you have access to ECMWF systems you can retrieve test data from MARS archive using keywords:

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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.

Examples

Total aerosol optical depth at 550 nm in NetCDF format, only European domain, all the available steps,

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December 2015

Code Block
languagepy
#!/usr/bin/env python
from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer
server = ECMWFDataServer()
server.retrieve({
    "dataset": "cams_nrealtime_test",
    "stream": "oper",
    "type": "fc",
    "date": "2015110120151201/to/2015113020151231",
    "time": "00",    
    "step":"0/to/120/by/1",
    "levtype":"sfc",
    "param" : "aod550",       # see parameter table at http://macc.copernicus-atmosphere.eu/oper_info/global_nrt_data_access/ftp/20150911_cams_upgrade/
    "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
    "format": "netcdf",
    "target": "/tmp/cams_nrealtime_test.grib"
})

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