China Daily Cloud-free 5 km Snow Cover Extent Product Dataset from AVHRR

Snowpack is an important component of the cryosphere, and the extent of snow cover affects the energy balance of the earth's atmosphere, which in turn affects climate and environmental change. Snowpack area is one of the important snowpack parameters, which is an important input to hydrological and climate models.In this dataset, we developed a multi-level decision tree snow accumulation discrimination algorithm based on the AVHRR-CDR reflectance product for China's snow accumulation characteristics, and meanwhile, we utilized the Hidden Markov Algorithm and multi-source data fusion method to realize the complete de-cloudedness of the product, and prepared a day-by-day cloud-free snow area dataset with a spatial resolution of 5 km for the period of 1980-2020.The dataset is stored in HDF5 file format, and each HDF5 file contains 18 data elements, including data values, data start date, latitude and longitude. This dataset will be continuously supplemented and improved based on real-time satellite remote sensing data and algorithm updates (currently until December 2020), and will be fully open and shared.