Independent Variables (Grids)

latitude (latitude)	grid: /lat (degree_north) ordered (38.025N) to (35.9625S) by 0.0375 N= 1974 pts :grid
longitude (longitude)	grid: /lon (degree_east) ordered (19.0125W) to (51.975E) by 0.0375 N= 1894 pts :grid
time (time)	grid: /time (julian_day) ordered (11 Jan 1983) to (10 Oct 2018) by 1.0 N= 13057 pts :grid

Other Info

contact

[email protected]

Conventions

CF-1.5

institution

TAMSAT Research Group, Meteorology Department, University of Reading, UK

latmax

38.025002

latmin

-35.962502

latres

0.0375

lonmax

51.974998

lonmin

-19.012501

lonres

0.0375

note

Please see the TAMSAT Data Policy in the "Documents" section of the page for terms of use

title

TAMSAT Rain Fall Estimate (RFE)

References

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.

Last updated: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:44:00 GMT