download.SM_CDS.RdDownload CDS soil moisture data for the SDA workflow.
download.SM_CDS(
outfolder,
time.points,
overwrite = FALSE,
auto.create.key = FALSE
)physical paths to where the unziped soil moisture files are downloaded.
A vector contains each time point within the start and end date.
flag determine if we want to overwrite existing files when downloading.
flag determine if we want to automatically create the credential file.
A vector containing file paths to the downloaded files.
Introduction on how to play with the CDS python API to correctly build the python environment with the cdsapi installed, you need to follow those steps. 1. Install miniconda. create a directory to install minicaonda `mkdir -p ~/miniconda3` 2. Download latest miniconda version. `wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh` 3. run the install script. `bash ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh -b -u -p ~/miniconda3` 4. delete the intall script. `rm -rf ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh` 5. add a conda initialize to your bash `~/miniconda3/bin/conda init bash` 6. Verify the installaton, you need to restart your session first. `conda list` 7. Create Python environment. `conda update conda` `conda create -n myenv python=3.9 –yes` 8. Activate your python env. `conda activate myenv` 9. Install the cdsapi package. `pip install cdsapi` in the meantime, you might encounter several issues saying XXXX dependency is not available. to solve this issue, you just need to install those dependencies before hand. 10. Create CDS account. go to `https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api-how-to#install-the-cds-api-key` website. create an account. 11. Create CDS personel token. run this function. go to `https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api-how-to#install-the-cds-api-key` website. copy and paste url and key to the prompt window.