%0 Dataset %T Historical data set of snow cover in China (2008-2019) %J National Cryosphere Desert Data Center %I National Cryosphere Desert Data Center(www.ncdc.ac.cn) %U http://www.ncdc.ac.cn/portal/metadata/6fa41911-bb7e-4e1f-a294-93b8590209ed %W NCDC %R 10.12072/ncdc.isnow.db2529.2023 %A Zheng Zhaojun %A Xiaohua Hao %A Li Xiaofeng %A None %A Jiang Lingmei %A DaiLiyun %A None %K Snow depth;temperature;density;humidity;stratification;classification;snow specific surface area;spectral reflectance;BRDF;albedo;microwave radiation brightness temperature;particle size;dielectric constant;snow environmental photos;air temperature;soil temperature;soil volume water content;soil conductivity %X <pre><code> &amp;emsp;&amp;emsp; The historical data set of snow cover in China (2008-2016) is from Northwest Institute of ecological environment and resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Meteorological Administration (National Satellite Meteorological Center, Xinjiang Regional Bureau, Qinghai Provincial Bureau, Heilongjiang Provincial Bureau and Inner Mongolia Provincial Bureau), Northeast Institute of geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing University The snow history field investigation data contributed by snow research teams of Beijing Normal University and other units are driven by project topics, business and scientific research needs, interests and hobbies, mainly manual observation and supplemented by automatic observation. After this sorting, a unified specification is realized, and the digital missing data are supplemented.Specifically, it is divided into 14 sub data sets: snow spectral reflectance data set of different particle sizes in Northern Xinjiang (2010), snow attribute observation data set of Heilongjiang Province (2016), snow freeze-thaw cycle observation data set of Huailai remote sensing comprehensive test station (2012), snow microwave radiation observation data set of Songyuan City, Jilin Province (2010) Inner Mongolia Xilinhot grassland snow observation data set (2018-2020), Qinghai Tibet Plateau snow parameters and soil parameters automatic observation data set (2015-2016), Qinghai Qilian snow attributes and albedo data set (2008), Xinjiang Altay national reference climate station daily snow characteristics data set (2015-2016), Xinjiang Altay snow characteristics investigation data set (2016) Xinjiang Altay snow depth and BRDF observation data set (2015), Xinjiang Manas River Basin snow characteristics survey data set (2013-2014), China's typical snow area snow encryption aut