A spatial and temporal dataset of atmospheric inorganic nitrogen wet deposition in China (1996 – 2015)

Based on the site-year data of inorganic wet N deposition from published literature, we built the spatial dataset of wet N deposition during 1996 – 2000, 2001 – 2005, 2006 – 2010, and 2011 – 2015 in China by using geostatistical method. This dataset includes NH4+-N, NO3--N and DIN (sum of NH4+-N and NO3--N), with spatial resolution of 1 km×1 km, and it is in .tiff format.The data do not include Taiwan and the South China Sea Islands. All data of the dataset are generated by ArcGIS software with tiff format, which can be viewed and used in the visual geographic information system software supporting the above format. This data is applicable to the spatial distribution trend assessment of nitrogen deposition and its ecological and environmental effects, but there may be some errors in the single point assessment of nitrogen deposition and its impact.