ERA5 is the latest development in the ERA series, and improves significantly on its predecessors by: - Offering a higher horizontal resolution of 31 km and 137 vertical levels from the surface up to 0.01 hPa (around 80 km); - Using a more recent and advanced version of the ECMWF IFS model; - Providing hourly estimates of atmospheric variables; - Providing a consistent representation of uncertainties for these variables; - Using more satellite observations in the data assimilation. Here are some information to access this database using python batch Please visit http://climate.copernicus.eu/climate-reanalysis for more information including documentation and guidelines on how to download the data. __________ June 2025 The new ECMWF methodology cannot use R directly. The solution I found to download data in MacOSX was: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=overview To install the CDSAPI using pip, the solution is to create a virtual environneme...