Download ERA5 data by R

[Kevin_Marsh]

this forum post describes how R can be used to access ERA5 data from the current CDS. Please note the recommended way to access ERA5 data is via the CDS API

Download CDS ERA5 data using R

Users can download CDS data using the ecmwfr package in R with “cds” as the "service" although it is not supported by C3S. In the examples below, "KEY" and "UID" are your CDS API key and UID respectively. Please have a look at the following example to download ERA5 2m temperature for a selected area in netCDF format:  library(ecmwfr)   cds.key <- "Insert_your_CDS_API_KEY_here" wf_set_key(user = "Insert_your_CDS_UID_here", key = cds.key, service = "cds") …