Is expver a valid keyword for cdsapi?

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I would like to make sure the retrieved data 2-3 months later is expver 1 as this information seems to be lost when requesting netcdf verses a request for grib which does have this metadata. This keyword seems to be ignored as a request using expver=1 for near real time data returned expver 5 instead of the expected 'no data available'.

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Hi Andrew,

No, the expver keyword is not currently recognised by the CDS API; it just returns all available data for the specified time period,

Thanks,

Kevin

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I am curious then, is there any way to know if data downloaded from CDS API is ERA5-land or ERA5-land-T, whether in the netcdf or in the request?

If not, the only way to be sure to only ever get the "final" data is to run a request with 3 months delay?

Thanks,

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Hi Elodie,

If there is only 1 'experiment version' in the period requested, then there will be no 'expver' dimension in the netcdf file, so you cannot tell.

You could run requests with 3 months delay (although you should still check the location of the transition from expver=1 (ERA5-Land) to expver=5 (ERA5-LandT).

In the vast majority of cases, the ERA5-LandT data are identical to the ERA5-Land data for a given timestep.

Hope that helps,

Kevin