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HiTIC-Monthly: a monthly high spatial resolution (1 km) human thermal index collection over China during 2003–2020
HiTIC-Monthly: a monthly high spatial resolution (1 km) human thermal index collection over China during 2003–2020

The monthly High spatial resolution human Thermal Index Collection (HiTIC-Monthly) includes near-surface air temperature (SAT) and 11 commonly used human-perceived temperature indices: indoor Apparent Temperature (ATin), outdoor shaded Apparent Temperature (ATout), Discomfort Index (DI), Effective Temperature (ET), Heat Index (HI), Humidex (HMI), Modified Discomfort Index (MDI), Net Effective Temperature (NET), simplified Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (sWBGT), Wet-Bulb Temperature (WBT), and Wind Chill Temperature (WCT). This dataset has a high spatial resolution of 1 km × 1 km and covers mainland China from January 2003 to December 2020. The overall R-square, root mean square error, and mean absolute error of the 12 thermal indices in the HiTIC dataset are 0.996, 0.693°C, and 0.512°C, respectively. It is stacked by year, and each stack is composed of 12 monthly images in the NetCDF format. The unit of the dataset is 0.01 degree Celsius (°C), and the values are stored in an integer type (Int16) for saving storage space, and need to be divided by 100 to get the values in degree Celcius when in use. The projection coordinate system of the dataset is Albers Equal Area Conic Projection. The naming rule and other detailed information can be found in “README.pdf”. If you have any questions when using the HiTIC-Monthly dataset, please feel free to contact Miss Hui Zhang via zhangh573@mail2.sysu.edu.cn, Dr. Ming Luo via luom38@mail.sysu.edu.cn, or Dr. Yongquan Zhao via zhaoyq66@mail.sysu.edu.cn. More details on the procedure of producing the HiTIC-Monthly dataset and its accuracy assessment can be found in: Zhang H., Luo M., Zhao Y., et al., 2022. HiTIC-Monthly: A Monthly High Spatial Resolution (1 km) Human Thermal Index Collection over China during 2003–2020. Earth System Science Data (submitted for consideration for publication). https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-257

Created Time:2022-11-07
SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product using MCCA (2015-2022)
SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product using MCCA (2015-2022)

Soil moisture is an important boundary condition of earth-atmosphere exchanges, and it has been defined as an essential climate variable by GCOS. Vegetation optical depth is a physical variable to measure the attenuation of vegetation in microwave radiative transfer model, and it has been proved to be a good indicator of vegetation water content and biomass. This dataset uses the multi-channel collaborative algorithm (MCCA) to retrieve both soil moisture and polarized vegetation optical depth with SMAP brightness temperature. The algorithm uses a self-constraint relationship between land parameters and an analytical relationship between brightness temperature at different channels to perform the retrieval process. The MCCA does not depend on other auxiliary data on vegetation properties and can be applied to a variety of satellites. The soil moisture product from this dataset includes the soil moisture content in the unfrozen period and the liquid water content in the frozen period. Both horizontal- and vertical-polarization vegetation optical depth are retrieved. So far as we know, it is the first polarization-dependent vegetation optical depth product at L-band. This dataset was validated by 19 dense soil moisture observation networks (9 core validation sites used by SMAP team and 13 sites not used by them), and the widely used soil climate analysis network (SCAN). It was found that ubRMSE (unbiased root mean square error) of MCCA retrieved soil moisture is generally smaller than that of other SMAP products.

Created Time:2022-03-04

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