Rights: By downloading the TAMSAT rainfall estimates or the TARCAT dataset, you are agreeing to the following terms of use, which have been established considering the rules of the various funding bodies and collaborating parties, under our past and present contracts and agreements: - The TAMSAT rainfall estimation system and the TARCAT dataset (henceforth referred to as TAMSAT/TARCAT) are owned by the University of Reading. - Use of TAMSAT/TARCAT for any purpose is at the User's own risk. Users accept that the University of Reading is not liable for the consequences of using TAMSAT/TARCAT data, for any mistakes in the data or for any discrepancies with other observed datasets. - TAMSAT/TARCAT can be freely used for research purposes, as long as Tarnavsky et al, 2014 and Maidment et al, 2014 are acknowledged in any resulting publications or presentations. - Any operational or commercial use of TAMSAT must be explicitly agreed by the University of Reading. - Any operational or commercial re-distribution of TAMSAT/TARCAT, including images derived from TAMSAT/TARCAT data or descriptions based on TAMSAT/TARCAT data must be explicitly agreed with the University of Reading. The following are representative examples of such usage: the inclusion of TARCAT based images in famine early warning bulletins; the use of TARCAT data in risk management/assessment tools; the use of TARCAT data for operating weather index insurance; Tarnavsky, E., D. Grimes, R. Maidment, E. Black, R. Allan, M. Stringer, R. Chadwick, F. Kayitakire (2014) Extension of the TAMSAT Satellite-based Rainfall Monitoring over Africa and from 1983 to present Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climate DOI 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0016.1 Maidment, R., D. Grimes, R.P.Allan, E. Tarnavsky, M. Stringer, T. Hewison, R. Roebeling and E. Black (2014) The 30 year TAMSAT African Rainfall Climatology And Time series (TARCAT) data set Journal of Geophysical Research DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021927
