0. SECTIONS
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1. Project
2. Dataset
3. Terms of Use
4. Content
5. Method and Processing
6. Associated Datasets

1. PROJECT
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Title: TAMSAT (Tropical Applications of Meteorology using SATellite
       and ground-based observations)
Dates: Early 1980s to present


2. DATASET
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Title: TAMSAT Daily Rainfall Estimates
Description: The dataset comprises of high resolution (0.0375 degrees) 
             satellite-derived daily rainfall estimates for all Africa 
             from January 1983 to December 2015 (data from 2016 onwards
             can be downloaded from the TAMSAT website: 
             http://www.tamsat.org.uk). The dataset is derived 
             from the TAMSAT African Rainfall Climatology And Time-series 
             (TARCAT) dataset (1983-present). Further details can be found 
             in the daily data guide for users, available from the TAMSAT 
             website. 
             
Publication Year: 2016

Creator(s)
Name(s): Ross Maidment, Emily Black, Elena Tarnavsky
Organisation(s): University of Reading, UK


3. TERMS OF USE
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Please observe the TAMSAT data policy, available from: http://www.tamsat.org.uk/docs/TAMSAT_Data_Policy_2016.pdf 


4. CONTENT
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There is one zipped folder for each year, for example:

TAMSAT_rfe_dailyYYYY.zip (where YYYY is the year)

Each zipped folder contains 12 sub folders for each calendar month. 
Each monthly folder contains all the available daily files. There is
one file for each day, for example:

rfeYYYY_MM_DD.nc (where YYYY is the year, MM is the month and DD is the day)

The format of the data is netCDF.

There are also accompanying quicklooks (a png file) for each day. 


5. METHOD and PROCESSING
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The TAMSAT daily estimates are derived from the TARCAT dekadal (10-day)
dataset. Estimates are calculated by disaggregating the dekadal rainfall amounts
to daily amounts according to the fraction of observed cold cloud duration (CCD) 
for each day. In this way, the 10-day sum of daily estimates equals the dekadal 
estimate, which is expected to be reliable.


6. ASSOCIATED DATASETS
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As this dataset is derived from the TARCAT dataset, please refer to the TARCAT 
papers for further details:

Tarnavsky, E., Grimes, D., Maidment, R., Black, E., Allan, R., Stringer, M., Chadwick, R. & F. Kayitakire (2014).
Extension of the TAMSAT Satellite-based Rainfall Monitoring over Africa and from 1983 to present. Journal
of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 53 (12): 2805-2822. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0016.1.

Maidment, R., D. Grimes, R.P.Allan, E. Tarnavsky, M. Stringer, T. Hewison, R. Roebeling & E. Black (2014). The
30 year TAMSAT African Rainfall Climatology And Time series (TARCAT) data set. Journal of
Geophysical Research. 119: 10,619-10,644. DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021927.