How can I download Public Datasets from ECMWF

Step-by-step guide

There are 2 ways to access ECMWF public datasets:

1. 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)
2. The Web-API ie the programmatic way :
   
   • This is the preferred way for data download via scripting languages such as Python.

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