Land Cover Change Impacts on Surface Temperature in China, 2000-2020

Zhong et al. (2026) provide code and datasets analyzing land cover changes in China from 2000 to 2020. The data includes potential and actual impacts on land surface temperature, estimated for biogeochemical and biogeophysical effects and their combined outcomes. The datasets are in geotiff or numpy npy format and were published by researchers from Beijing Normal University.

Use Cases

• Modeling the biogeophysical warming effects of land cover changes based on land surface temperature data.
• Assessing the biogeochemical cooling effects of land cover changes based on estimated impact data.
• Analyzing the net climatic impact of land use change in China based on combined effect estimates.
• Validating regional climate models using historical land cover and temperature change data for China.

Strengths

• Data covers a 20-year time span from 2000 to 2020.
• Includes separate estimates for biogeochemical and biogeophysical effects, as well as their combined impact.
• Associated code is provided for reproducibility, as mentioned in the description.
• Spatial data is provided in standard geospatial (geotiff) and numerical (npy) formats.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The total size is 82.7 MB, which may limit the spatial or temporal resolution of the geospatial data.
• Row count and specific data structure are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Beijing Normal University (Yan Li, Hangzheng Zhong).

Collection Method

Likely derived from satellite remote sensing and climate modeling, as suggested by the description of land cover changes and temperature impacts.

Time Range

2000 to 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 01:16:33; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China