GPRChinaTemp1km: 1 km monthly maximum air temperature for China from January 1951 to December 2020

GPRChinaTemp1km is a new high-resolution (1-km) monthly gridded air temperature dataset for China from January 1951 to December 2020. The dataset includes monthly maximum air temperature covering the main land area of China during 1951-2020, which was interpolated by the Gaussian process regression (GPR) method based on the meteorological station data. The monthly gridded temperature dataset was evaluated by the observed values of the meteorological stations from the China Meteorological Data Service Centre. The dataset is in GeoTIFF format in the WGS84 (EPSG:4326) coordinate system. The unit of the data is degree Celsius (°C).