No data is available for ERA5 in Oct 2018

[fcheng]

Dear FLEXPART community,

I recently used flex_extract (v7.1.2) to download ERA5 data, and I ran into an error below. This error is strange as my data-downloading job ran perfectly fine for all years and months except for Oct 2018 only. The variables (param: 160.128/027.128/028.128/244.128) for Oct 2018 somehow appear missing from the CDS database.

I wonder if anyone else has encountered a similar error before. I just sent a support request to C3S reporting the issue and am now awaiting their response. I also appreciate any help/solution from you about this issue.

Many thanks for your attention.

Best,
Fandy

MARS retrieve done ... 
... retrieve 20181001/to/20181002 in dir /disk/r059/tfchengac/flex_extract/farmer_test/Run/Workspace/EA_temp
marsclass: EA
dataset: ERA5
type: AN
levtype: SFC
levelist: 1
repres: 
date: 20181001
resol: 255
stream: OPER
area: 90.0/-179.0/-90.0/180.0
time: 00
step: 000
expver: 1
number: OFF
accuracy: 24
grid: 1.0/1.0
gaussian: 
target: /disk/r059/tfchengac/flex_extract/farmer_test/Run/Workspace/EA_temp/OG_OROLSM__SL.20181001.1677928.1677929.grb
param: 160.128/027.128/028.128/244.128
target: /disk/r059/tfchengac/flex_extract/farmer_test/Run/Workspace/EA_temp/OG_OROLSM__SL.20181001.1677928.1677929.grb
RETRIEVE ERA5 WITH CDS API!
2023-04-11 18:53:06,316 INFO Welcome to the CDS
2023-04-11 18:53:06,316 INFO Sending request to https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/resources/reanalysis-era5-single-levels
2023-04-11 18:53:06,642 INFO Request is queued
2023-04-11 18:53:29,388 INFO Request is failed
2023-04-11 18:53:29,388 ERROR Message: no data is available within your requested subset
2023-04-11 18:53:29,388 ERROR Reason:  Request returned no data
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR   Traceback (most recent call last):
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR     File "/opt/cdstoolbox/cdscompute/cdscompute/cdshandlers/services/handler.py", line 59, in handle_request
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR       result = cached(context.method, proc, context, context.args, context.kwargs)
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR     File "/opt/cdstoolbox/cdscompute/cdscompute/caching.py", line 108, in cached
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR       result = proc(context, *context.args, **context.kwargs)
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR     File "/opt/cdstoolbox/cdscompute/cdscompute/services.py", line 124, in __call__
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR       return p(*args, **kwargs)
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR     File "/opt/cdstoolbox/cdscompute/cdscompute/services.py", line 60, in __call__
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR       return self.proc(context, *args, **kwargs)
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR     File "/home/cds/cdsservices/services/mars/mars.py", line 48, in internal
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR       return mars(context, request, **kwargs)
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR     File "/home/cds/cdsservices/services/mars/mars.py", line 20, in mars
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR       execute_mars(context, requests, info)
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR     File "/home/cds/cdsservices/services/mars/execute_mars.py", line 33, in execute_mars
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR       raise NoDataException("Request returned no data", '')
2023-04-11 18:53:29,389 ERROR   cdsinf.exceptions.NoDataException: Request returned no data


MARS Request failed!
no data is available within your requested subset. Request returned no data.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/disk/r059/tfchengac/flex_extract/farmer_test/Source/Python/Classes/MarsRetrieval.py", line 587, in data_retrieve
    self.server.retrieve(dataset,
  File "/disk/r059/tfchengac/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cdsapi/api.py", line 317, in retrieve
    result = self._api('%s/resources/%s' % (self.url, name), request, 'POST')
  File "/disk/r059/tfchengac/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cdsapi/api.py", line 458, in _api
    raise Exception("%s. %s." % (reply['error'].get('message'), reply['error'].get('reason')))

Exception: no data is available within your requested subset. Request returned no data.

[fcheng]

Hello,

It's been 10 months now, and I'm still getting this same error when using flex_extract v7.1.3 or the development version from Github. I have been using the public mode to download ERA5. Can anyone help see if the same bug can be reproduced? Any hint/help with the bug is much appreciated.

Thank you,
Franklin