CDSAPItools

These functions are designed to download ERA5 data per month. In other words, the function will split the required duration into 1-month intervals. The idea behind this module is to prevent having to keep a Python instance running during the entire duration of the queue process. This is implemented in two steps:

1. Request the data to the server, which will queue all requests. All requests are stored in out_path/ERA5props.csv, but no download is made yet.
2. Manually check what requests have been completed and download those that have. Again, this updates ERA5props.csv so only new files are downloaded

Requirements

CDSAPItools require the pandas and cdsapi modules:

pip install cdsapi pandas

References:

CDS background

• Homepage: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/#!/home
• Datasets: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/search?type=dataset

Method implementation:

• ecmwf/cdsapi#2
• https://github.com/ecmwf/cdsapi/blob/master/examples/example-era5-update.py