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The dataset is covering the period from 1 March 2018 until present.

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If you don't have access to ECMWF computers but would still like to access a large subset of test data you can use ECMWF WebAPI service.

Info

Read documentation and see brief request syntax of the ECMWF WebAPI service.

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

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Example

Altitude of plume top in NetCDF format, only European domain, 10 dates

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Code Block
languagepy
titleNetCDF
#!/usr/bin/env python
from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer
server = ECMWFDataServer()
server.retrieve({
    "class":   "mc",
    "dataset": "cams_gfas",
    "date":    "2018-03-01/to/2018-03-10",
    "expver":  "9601",
    "levtype": "sfc",
    "param":   "120.210",       # see parameter codes at http://apps.ecmwf.int/codes/grib/param-db/
    "step":    "0-24",
    "stream":  "gfas",
    "time":    "00:00:00",
    "type":    "ga",
    "target":  "atp.nc",
    "format":  "netcdf",
    "area":    "70/-35/35/60"   # N/E/S/W area boundaries
})

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You can use your normal FTP account to access the data. The list of parameters is the same as in the current data streams.

If everything else fails ...

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