Download a single point from CDS API

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It is possible to download data for a single point from the Copernicus Data Store (CDS). This is only possible via the CDS API for those datasets currently supporting the "area" widget/keyword (i.e ERA5 family, Seasonal forecasts).

Users can edit the "area" keyword in the following CDS API example script for ERA5 2m temperature data:

import cdsapi

c = cdsapi.Client()


c.retrieve(

‘reanalysis-era5-single-levels’,

{

‘product_type’: ‘reanalysis’,

‘format’: ‘grib’,

‘variable’: ‘2m_temperature’,

‘year’: ‘2020’,

‘month’: ‘01’,

‘day’: ‘01’,

‘time’: [

‘00:00’, ‘01:00’, ‘02:00’,

‘03:00’, ‘04:00’, ‘05:00’,

‘06:00’, ‘07:00’, ‘08:00’,

‘09:00’, ‘10:00’, ‘11:00’,

‘12:00’, ‘13:00’, ‘14:00’,

‘15:00’, ‘16:00’, ‘17:00’,

‘18:00’, ‘19:00’, ‘20:00’,

‘21:00’, ‘22:00’, ‘23:00’,

],


for a point at latitude=80 N longitude= 10 W


    'area': [
        80.001, -10, 80,
        -9.999,
    ],
},
'download.grib')</pre>
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Thanks this is great for what I need, for simulated station data. I need to download data for many individual lat/lon points. One way is to just run this as a loop, and end up with one file per lat/lon pair. Is there a way to download lots of points in just one file?

Cheers