Date period specification

[danielreispereira]

Documentation says:

For those familiar to ECMWFs mars syntax: CDS does not accept date = "2000-01-01/to/2000-12-> 31" specifications at the moment. It is possible to specify one specific date via date = "2000-01-> >01" or multiple days via date = ["2000-01-01","2000-01-02","2000-10-20"] but not via ".../to/...".

So, how should the "date" piece of request be built when I need to extract date1 to date2?

date = "[2018-01-30 , 2019-02-01]", #does not work
date = "['2018-01-30', '2019-02-01']", #does not work
date = '["2018-01-30", "2019-02-01"]', #does not work

[khufkens]

Try:
date = ["2000-01-01","2000-01-02","2000-10-20"]
no quotes

[danielreispereira]

See image below.
RStudio will complain that I'm not building a list with "QuotedStrings" if I try that.

Looks like I'll have to build the character string with paste(), not sure. Thoughts?

[khufkens]

Try converting the request from python to R using the addin.

A query similar to this should work.

request <- list(
  product_type = "reanalysis",
  format = "netcdf",
  variable = "temperature",
  pressure_level = "850",
  year = "1980",
  month = "02",
  day = c("02", "03"),
  time = "01:00",
  area = "70/-20/30/60",
  dataset = "reanalysis-era5-pressure-levels",
  target = "download.nc"
)