A dataset of ultraviolet radiation reconstruction in China during 2015–2020

Abstract

Ultraviolet radiation data can provide data support for many fields such as agriculture, ecology, environmental science, materials science, and human health. They have important application value in ecosystem succession, climate change research and environmental impact assessment. But with so little observational data and a short time scale, obtaining accurate, long-time, and wide range UV radiation data will provide scientific data support for relevant research. Therefore, based on the observation data of existing stations, in this paper, we constructed a method suitable for the reconstruction of ultraviolet radiation at the national scale, and combined with the conventional meteorological data observed for a long time, so as to obtain a dataset of ultraviolet radiation reconstruction. During the production of this dataset, first, we got the historical data of total surface radiation in accordance with the "hybrid model". Then, we created the UV radiation estimation formula by using clear sky index and other parameters. Finally, we calculated the reconstructed UV radiation data of 705 observation stations in China followed by the process of accuracy verification. The time range of this dataset is during 2015–2020.