Monthly values of solar irradiance, cloud fraction, COVID-19 mortality, for European countries in 2020

"Monthly values of solar irradiance, cloud fraction, COVID-19 mortality, for European countries in 2020" Authors: Iftime Adrian, Omer Secil, Burcea Andrei Victor, Calinescu Octavian, Babes Ramona-Madalina Corresponding author for this dataset: A. Iftime, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Biophysics Department, 8 Blvd. Eroii Sanitari, 050474 Bucharest, Romania. Email address: adrian.iftime [at] umfcd.ro. DATASET: 371 rows, 1st row contains labels; 370 rows with records, with the following fields (columns): "Country_Code": ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letters country code (ID variable for the countries) 37 European countries included. "Country" : Country name in human readable format "Month": Date in format YYYY-MM (year-month). The month of the data collecting. "Month_Fct2020" Month as a string with names of the months (in English) for factor recoding. "Population" Average country population in the year 2020 * "Monthly_Deaths" Calculated total fatalities in that month in the respective country due to COVID-19 * Note: "NA" - coding for "Data not available" "Deaths_per_1Mpop" : Monthly mortality from COVID-19 calculated as the number of COVID-19 deaths per 1 million population of the country "Monthly_Insolation" : Calculated Insolation average (solar irradiance at ground level), in that particular month / country. It is expressed in Watt / square meter of the ground surface. ** "Cloud_Fraction" : Calculated cloudiness (also known as cloud fraction, cloud cover, cloud amount or sky cover), as decimal fraction of the sky obscured by clouds (min: 0, max:1), in that particular month / country. *** "CENTR_latitude" and "CENTR_longitude" : Latitude and Longitude of the country centroid, for each country. **** NOTE: This is identical in every month; it is redundantly included for easier monthly sectional analysis of the data. =========== * Computed from public daily data by: GUIDOTTI, Emanuele. A worldwide epidemiological database for COVID-19 at fine-grained spatial resolution. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022, (9). ISSN: 2052-4463. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01245-1 Note: data snapshot used for the calculation was on 2025, February 13. ** Computed from global data available at: NASA Langley Research Center, NASA’s Earth Observatory, CERES / FLASHFlux team, 2020, https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=CERES_INSOL_M (old link: https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=CERES_INSOL_M ) Calculated with a resolution of 0.25 deg latitude x 0.25 deg longitude grid; *** Computed from from global data available at: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA’s Earth Observatory, MODIS Atmosphere Science Team, 2020, https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MODAL2_M_CLD_FR (old link: https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MODAL2_M_CLD_FR ) Calculated with a resolution of 0.25 deg latitude x 0.25 deg longitude grid; **** Data derived from Google LLC, "Dataset publishing language: country centroids", https://developers.google.com/public-data/docs/canonical/countries_csv