If there is a message in your data retrieval output about "damaged tape", it means that the data is currently not available. Normally a tape recovery process is ongoing in our data centre in such cases but  it can take  a long time  to resolve it. Also there is always a possibility that some data could not be recovered. For the exact list of  currently missing data because of  the damaged tapes, refer to the information in ... (To Be Added)



  One could use Total precipitation archived to get daily total precipitation using forecast initialized at 00 UTC and selecting 24 hour step as shown in the request below:


#!/usr/bin/env python
from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer
server = ECMWFDataServer()
server.retrieve({
    "class": "ti",
    "dataset": "tigge",
    "date": "2019-01-01/to/2019-01-31",
    "expver": "prod",
    "grid": "0.5/0.5",
    "levtype": "sfc",
    "origin": "ecmf",
    "param": "228228",
    "step": "24",
    "time": "00:00:00",
    "type": "fc",
    "target": "output",
})