ECMWF

Create ECMWF account

To be able to download data from ECMWF you first need to create an account with ECMWF. To do that go on the following site:

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Click on "Register" at the bottom. Fill the form and click on the big "Register" button at the end.

Next you need to setup your CDS API personal access token. To do that follow the steps on the following page:

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Step 2. is already done. See below how to use our already installed CDS API client.

When you download data for the first time you will be asked to accept a license. You need to to this just once.

If you want to download data online directly from the web site you will see a button "Accept License" or similar to accept the license at the end of the field selection page. Just click on it.
If you want to download data with a Python script, the easiest way I found to accept the license is by starting(!) to download any field from the online web page. For example, from the following page:
https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=download
Log in, select any field, year, month, day, hour then scroll down to the end of the page. There, you should see a red button saying "Accept License" or similar. Just click on it. That's all. No need to submit the request! Then downloading data with Python should work.

To be able to use our common CDF API client you need to load:

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