%0 Dataset %T Monthly Scale Dataset of Surface Temperature in China (2003-2017) %J National Cryosphere Desert Data Center %I National Cryosphere Desert Data Center(www.ncdc.ac.cn) %U http://www.ncdc.ac.cn/portal/metadata/120ea2a9-c408-4a66-97fe-314c2c0784b2 %W NCDC %R 10.5281/zenodo.3528024 %A Mao Kebiao %K thermal infrared;thermal infrared radiometer;natural disaster;grassland interception;remote sensing technology;abnormal land water reserves;Surface water;surface temperature;remote sensing of atmosphere;extreme precipitation;forest fire;hydrology;water temperature;disaster %X This dataset contains surface temperature data of China (approximately 9.6 million square kilometers of land) from 2003 to 2017, in degrees Celsius, with a time resolution of monthly scale and a spatial resolution of 5600 meters. By combining MODIS daily data (MOD11C1 and MYD11C1), monthly data (MOD11C3 and MYD11C3), and meteorological station data, the true LST under cloud cover in monthly LST images is reconstructed, and a regression analysis model is constructed to further improve the accuracy of the six natural zones under different climatic conditions. Precision analysis shows that the reconstruction results are closely related to the on-site measurement results, with an average RMSE of 1.39 ℃, MAE of 1.30 ℃, and R2 of 0.97. Two files: 1) Document Description File: 00_ Metadata for LSTC.docx; 2) Dataset file: 01_ LSTC.zip, which contains 15 folders. The file formats include: *. TIF (LSTC image) and *. TFW (TIFF image coordinate information)