This method is an alternative way for downloading ECMWF public datasets in a programmatic way. The user can include this functions in their programs and get the data.
- If you don't have an account, please self register at https://apps.ecmwf.int/registration/ and then go to the steps below.
retrieve you key at https://api.ecmwf.int/v1/key/
Copy the information in this page and paste it in the file $HOME/.ecmwfapirc
{
"url" : "https://api.ecmwf.int/v1",
"key" : "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"email" : "john.smith@example.com"
}
Python
You can install the ecmwfapi python library by running:
sudo pip install https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/download/attachments/23694554/ecmwf-api-client-python.tgz
If you cannot run the sudo or pip commands, just download the ecmwf-api-client-python.tgz. Extract its content and copy the module ecmwfapi to a directory pointed by the environment variable PYTHONPATH.
The data available through the Web API is organized in Datasets has its own availability. If you go to
http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/
You can discover all the ECMWF Public Datasets that are available from our archive. We strongly recommend you to to navigate through our public datasets archive to become familiar with their availability. You may select a Public Dataset and start navigating trough the contents.
Please take into account some considerations about the content:
- Different Datasets include different "parameters" , "times", and "steps"
- In each Datasets not all the "parameters" are available from all "steps"
- In each Datasets not all the "steps" are available from all "times"
The web interface above will help you to check and understand the availability. For any kind of selections the system will update the attributes in a dynamic way to reflect the current availability. (i.e. if you change the steps some parameters will be added or removed).
Tip
Example of usage:
- If you click on the ERA-interim http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim_full_daily/ you will get a web page reflecting the availability of this specific Public Dataset as the period that it is available, the forecast steps and the parameters that are available etc.
- From this page you have the option to define the values of your requests such as the "date", the "time" the "steps" and the "parameters" that you are interested in.
- In the case of ERA-Interim if you select time "06:00:00" only, the system updates the availability of the "steps" dynamically. In that case only the "step" 00 is available (checkable).
- Additionally if you select "step" 00 you will see that only a subset of the parameters are now available and only these parameters can now be checked.
Spend some time to understand how it works, make some selections try to execute the MARS scripts.
We also have some API for several client languages. Note that PYTHON is the most tested and supported.
Perl
You need to download the clien, extract its content and to a directory pointed by the environment variable PERL5LIB . This code relies on the JSON perl module, as well as libwww-perl and Crypt::SSLeay.
Java
You need to download the client and you will also need the Java JSON package.
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