A daily sunshine duration (SD) dataset in China from Himawari AHI imagery (2016-2023)

This gridded dataset on daily sunshine duration (SD) for 2016-2023 in China. The SD data was established using Himawari’s Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) Level 3 shortwave radiation fitted with the Ångström-Prescott model based on time series. The daily SD data is a NetCDF file and the file is named “SDYYYYMMDD.nc”, where “YYYY”, “MM” and “DD” refer to the year, month, and day of the file.