Historical land surface albedo changes in China

Land surface albedo is a critical parameter of the Earth’s energy budget, and has been greatly altered by climate change and human activities. The recent changes in land surface albedo can be monitored by satellite observations. However, because land surface albedo before the satellite era cannot be directly acquired by measurements, historical land surface albedo changes must be obtained using reconstructions and model simulations. To improve our understanding of historical land surface albedo changes and their climatic effects, we reconstructed land surface albedo in China from 850 to 2015 using the historical land use harmonization version 2 (LUH2) dataset and albedo look-up maps. The reconstructed dataset of annual-mean land surface albedo in China from 850 to 2015 was stored with the TIFF format. A total number of 1166 TIFF files can be find in the uploaded RAR file.