Monthly Dataset of Land Surface Temperature in China region from 2000 to 2014

The Land Surface Temperature(LST) is one of the important parameters for studying the regional surface energy balance as well as resources and environment changes, and it is also an important base data in many research fields: meteorology, hydrology, zoology, agriculture, forestry, animalhusbandryandfishery etc. There is no monthly dataset of Land Surface Temperature with spatial resolution of 1km covering China region. In this paper, we produced a monthly dataset of Land Surface Temperature (MODLT1M_CN) covering china region. This dataset is derived from a MODIS standard product named MOD11A1 through a series of data processing, including tiles mosaic, mask clipping, data formatconversion, projection transformation, and numerical calculation. The MODLT1M_CN dataset contains four data components: monthly LST in the daytime, quality control flag of LST in the daytime, monthly LST in the nighttime and quality control flag of LST in the nighttime. The MODLT1M_CN dataset is provided for open access by all users, and more open datasets can also be accessed through Geospaital Data Cloud (www.gscloud.cn).