MARS
Specifies the analysis date, the start date of a forecast (base date) or observation date.
Valid formats are:
- Absolute as YYYY-MM-DD, YYYYMMDD. The day of the year can also be used: YYYY-DDD
- Relative as -n ; n is the number of days before today (i.e., -1 = yesterday )
- Name of month (e.g. January for Climatology data)
- Operational monthly means are retrieved by setting day (DD) to 00.
Examples
date = 20180918/20180919 # The 18th and 19th September 2018
date = 2018-145
# The 145th day in 2018
date = 20180101/to/20180131
# Every day in September 2018
date = -2
# The day before yesterday
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For ODB data the date refers to the ODB column andate, i.e. the date of the assimilation run.
Dissemination
Deprecated
