Please refer to the Milestone note for DE-EDT-5-22.M2 for full details on the usage of the Polytope service to retrieve DestinE data from the archive.
Below are several examples of key-value pairs which would be used as the "request" within the polytope service.
Surface fields
Retrieve "Sea ice area fraction" (param 31) and "Sea surface temperature" (param 34) at step 0:
request = { 'class' : 'rd', 'date' : '2018-11-01', 'expver' : 'hs3g', 'levtype' : 'sfc', 'param' : '31/34', 'step' : '0', 'stream' : 'oper', 'time' : '00:00:00', 'type' : 'fc' }
Model level fields
Retrieve "Pressure" (param 54) and "Temperature" (param 130) at all model levels at step 6 (6 hours after run start: 2018-11-01, 06:00:00):
request = { 'class' : 'rd', 'date' : '2018-11-01', 'expver' : 'hs3g', 'levelist': '1/to/137', 'levtype' : 'ml', 'param' : '54/130', 'step' : '6', 'stream' : 'oper', 'time' : '00:00:00', 'type' : 'fc' }
Pressure level fields
Retrieve "Specific humidity" (param 133) at all pressure levels at step 24 (24 hours after run start: 2018-11-02, 00:00:00):
request = { 'class' : 'rd', 'date' : '2018-11-01', 'expver' : 'hs3g', 'levelist': '1/2/3/5/7/10/20/30/50/70/100/150/200/250/300/400/500/700/850/925/1000', 'levtype' : 'pl', 'param' : '133', 'step' : '24', 'stream' : 'oper', 'time' : '00:00:00', 'type' : 'fc' }
Additional request keywords
See the milestone note DE-EDT-5-22.M2 for other keywords which can be used to retrieve parameters at a coarsened resolution or for a reduced area.