TAMSAT Data Access Portal
Operational TAMSAT data access hub for daily, pentadal and monthly African rainfall estimates and soil moisture, with subsetting, file downloads and near-real-time updates.
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At a glance
- Region
- United Kingdom (Africa)
- Coverage
- 1983-present
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Academic
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- Precipitation
- Satellite rainfall
- Soil moisture
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design storms
Build rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves for drainage design.
Because it has: Precipitation
- 02
Model input
Drive hydrological, crop and urban drainage models.
- 03
Irrigation scheduling
Decide when and how much to irrigate.
Because it has: Soil moisture
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Downscaling
Turn coarse rainfall grids into field or ward scale estimates.
- 02
Gauge + satellite fusion
Correct satellite rainfall with gauges using machine learning.
- 03
Field-scale ET
Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Python download/extraction API; web subsetting tool at data.tamsat.org.uk/data-download/rainfall
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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