Copernicus Climate Data Store (C3S)

This tool is a wrapper to retrieve data from the Copernicus Climate Data Store.

• It allows to retrieve data from the Copernicus climate Data Store.

• Any user willing to use this tool needs to create a new account.

• Set your CDS API Key via: User -> Preferences -> Manage Information"

• Documentation on where to get the CDS API key can be found here.

• Compose your request directly on C3S and extract the relevant information, which should be put in the input field "Request" or saved in a file. The format should be, for example:

  import cdsapi
  
  c = cdsapi.Client()
  c.retrieve(
      'reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means',
      {
          'data_format': 'netcdf',
          'product_type': 'monthly_averaged_reanalysis',
          'variable': '2m_temperature',
          'year': '2020',
          'month': '12',
          'time': '00:00',
          'area': [60, 10, 59.5, 10.5],
      },
      'download.nc')
  

• Be aware that for being able to download dataset from C3S, users also need to agree to licensing terms for each dataset of interest on the C3S website.