Download temperature data for 2014

download-ecmwf.py

import pandas as pd
dates = pd.date_range('2014-01-01', '2014-12-31', freq='D')
dates = [str(d).split()[0] for d in dates]

from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer

server = ECMWFDataServer()

for date in dates:
    server.retrieve({
      'stream'    : "oper",
      'levtype'   : "sfc",
      'param'     : "165.128/166.128/167.128",
      'dataset'   : "interim",
      'step'      : "00",
      'grid'      : "0.25/0.25",
      'time'      : "00/06/12/18",
      'date'      : date,
      'type'      : "an",
      'class'     : "ei",
      'target'    : date + ".nc3",
      'format'    : "netcdf" })