Rights: By downloading the CDRD rainfall rate estimates or the CDRD 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 CDRD rainfall rate estimation system and the CDRD dataset (henceforth referred to as CDRD) are owned by the CNR-ISAC. - Use of CDRD for any purpose is at the User's own risk. Users accept that the CNR-ISAC is not liable for the consequences of using CDRD data, for any mistakes in the data or for any discrepancies with other observed datasets. - CDRD can be freely used for research purposes, as long as Sanò et al. (2013) and Casella et al. (2013) are cited and CNR-ISAC is acknowledged in any resulting publications or presentations. We would appreciate receiving a copy of your publication, which can be be forwarded to the following address: Dr. Giulia Panegrossi, CNR-ISAC, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy, or, you may email the publication reference to: g.panegrossi@isac.cnr.it - Any operational or commercial use of CDRD must be explicitly agreed by the CNR-ISAC. - Any operational or commercial re-distribution of CDRD, including images derived from CDRD data or descriptions based on CDRD data must be explicitly agreed with the CNR-ISAC. The following are representative examples of such usage: the inclusion of CDRD based images in famine early warning bulletins; the use of CDRD data in risk management/assessment tools; the use of CDRD data for operating weather index insurance. References: Sanò, P., Casella, D., Mugnai, A., Schiavon, G., Smith, E. A., and Tripoli, G. J.: Transitioning from CRD to CDRD in Bayesian retrieval of rainfall from satellite passive microwave measurements: Part 1. Algorithm description and testing, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51, 4119-4143, 2013. Casella, D., Panegrossi, G., Sanò, P., Dietrich, S., Mugnai, A., Smith, E. A., Tripoli, G. J., Formenton, M., Di Paola, F., and Leung, W.-Y.: Transitioning from CRD to CDRD in Bayesian retrieval of rainfall from satellite passive microwave measurements: Part 2. Overcoming database profile selection ambiguity by consideration of meteorological control on microphysics, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51, 4650-4671, 2013.
