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Access via web-api

The ROM SAF data dataset is downloaded available from the ECMWF public datasets service using via the web-api. This is a "programmatic approach" for data download with python scripts . We will not reproduce all the existing web-api documentation here, but we will note some key steps required to download the data and provide the main links. Firstly, you will need to download the appropriate python modules in order to run the python download scripts. For example, the python scripts will contain "from ecmwfapi import" commands, like in this simple example, retrieving a monthly mean zonal wind at 1000 hPa, in netcdf format (More complex retrieval scripts are provided here):

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