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The ECMWF Public Datasets Service is being decommissioned and access to most datasets closed on 1 June 2023. In a final step later this year, access to the remaining multi-model datasets S2S and TIGGE will be migrated to a different system. For more information and possible alternatives, please consult the dedicated page on Decommissioning of ECMWF Public Datasets service.

This interface will help you to navigate through the public datasets in a dynamic and user-friendly way.

Step-by-step guide

There are 2 ways to access ECMWF public datasets:

The Datasets Web Interface. In brief:
- This interface will help you to navigate through the public datasets in a dynamic and user-friendly way.
- After each selection, the web page is updated automatically in order to reflect the availability of the dataset.
- The purpose of this interface is to help users navigate the content of the datasets, get familiar with it, extract sample data interactively and/or obtain the script to download data in batch. (see below)
The Access ECMWF Public Datasets Web API service ie the programmatic way :
- This is the preferred way for data download data using a Python client.

Step-by-step guide

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