Gridded solar radiation Data Extraction - change temporal resolution & location

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Hi, I’m trying to find any documentation about the API request for the “cams-gridded-solar-radiation”.
According to the manual in confluence, the temporal resolution for this is from 15 minutes. However, when downloading the data, I can’t find any resource that explains the parameters for changing the temporal resolution, or for selecting a bounding box (because I end up downloading the whole map when I only need a specific part).
And in the database description it only shows some parameters (check image):

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Can I get some resources for this if possible? Thank you very much in advance!

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Hi Henry. I’m afraid the temporal resolution is fixed at 15 minutes. You can’t change it on the web download form or in an API request.

You can however download just a small area with the API by specifying ”area”: [north, west, south, east] in your request. We haven’t made that clear on the download form because our software has had some issues extracting sub-areas from the files in the past due to their large size. Those issues are largely solved but the request may still fail if your sub-area is large.

Hope this helps,

Luke.

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