cms_download_subset: Subset and download a specific marine product from Copernicus

In CopernicusMarine: Search Download and Handle Data from Copernicus Marine Service Information

Subset and download a specific marine product from Copernicus

Description

Subset and download a specific marine product from Copernicus.

Usage

cms_download_subset(
  product,
  layer,
  variable,
  region,
  timerange,
  verticalrange,
  progress = TRUE,
  crop,
  asset,
  ...,
  username = cms_get_username(),
  password = cms_get_password()
)

Arguments

product	An identifier (type character) of the desired Copernicus marine product. Can be obtained with cms_products_list.
layer	The name of a desired layer within a product (type character). Can be obtained with cms_product_services (listed as id column).
variable	The name of a desired variable in a specific layer of a product (type character). Can be obtained with cms_product_details.
region	Specification of the bounding box as a vector of numerics WGS84 lat and lon coordinates. Should be in the order of: xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax.
timerange	A vector with two elements (lower and upper value) for a requested time range. The vector should be coercible to POSIXct.
verticalrange	A vector with two elements (minimum and maximum) numerical values for the depth of the vertical layers (if any). Note that values below the sea surface needs to be specified as negative values.
progress	A logical value. When TRUE (default) progress is reported to the console. Otherwise, this function will silently proceed.
crop	. This version now uses the GDAL library to handle the subsetting and downloading of subsets. The crop argument is therefore no longer supported.
asset	Type of asset to be used when subsetting data. Should be one of "default", "ARCO", "static", "omi", or "downsampled4". When missing, set to NULL or set to "default", it will use the first asset available for the requested product and layer, in the order as listed before.
...	Ignored (reserved for future features).
username	Your Copernicus marine user name. Can be provided with cms_get_username() (default), or as argument here.
password	Your Copernicus marine password. Can be provided as cms_get_password() (default), or as argument here.

Value

Returns a stars::st_as_stars() object.

Author(s)

Pepijn de Vries

Examples

if (interactive()) {

  mydata <- cms_download_subset(
    product       = "GLOBAL_ANALYSISFORECAST_PHY_001_024",
    layer         = "cmems_mod_glo_phy-cur_anfc_0.083deg_P1D-m",
    variable      = c("uo", "vo"),
    region        = c(-1, 50, 10, 55),
    timerange     = c("2025-01-01 UTC", "2025-01-02 UTC"),
    verticalrange = c(0, -2)
  )

  plot(mydata["vo"])
} else {
  message("Make sure to run this in an interactive environment")
}

CopernicusMarine documentation built on Feb. 26, 2026, 9:07 a.m.