"COVID-19 mortality correlation with cloudiness, sunlight, latitude in European countries" Dataset for preprint titled "COVID-19 mortality: positive correlation with cloudiness but no correlation with sunlight and latitude in Europe" https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250658 by SECIL OMER, ADRIAN IFTIME, VICTOR BURCEA Corresponding author: A. Iftime, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Biophysics Department, 8 Blvd. Eroii Sanitari, 050474 Bucharest, Romania. Email address: adrian.iftime [at] umfcd.ro. =========== Dataset file: 2.0.0.COVID-19_Mortality_Cloudiness_Insolation_EUROPE_March_December_2020.csv Dataset graphical preview: 2.0.0.INFOGRAPHIC_CloudFraction_vs_COVID-19_mortality_Europe_March-December_2020.png DATASET: 444 rows (records), with the following fields: "Country" : Country name; 37 European countries included. "Date": Date stamp at the collection time. Data collection was performed in the last day of every month. Date format: YYYY-MM-DD "Month_Key" : Date stamp at the collection time, formatted for easier monthly time series analysis. Date format: YYYY-MM "Month_Fct2020" Date stamp at the collection time,formatted for easier graphing, as a string with names of the months (in English). "Deaths_per_1Mpop" : Monthly mortality from COVID-19 raported in the country, reported as number of COVID-19 deaths per 1 million population of the country, in that particular month / country. NB: it is reported as million population, not patients. "LogDeaths_per_1Mpop" : Log10 transformation of "Deaths_per_1Mpop" "Insolation_Average" : Insolation average (solar irradiance at ground level), in that particular month / country. It is expressed in Watt / square meter of the ground surface. Data derived from data avaialble at NASA Langley Research Center, NASA’s Earth Observatory, CERES / FLASHFlux team, 2020, https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=CERES_INSOL_M (old link: https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=CERES_INSOL_M ) "Cloud_Fraction" : Cloudiness (also known as cloud fraction, cloud cover, cloud amount or sky cover), as decimal fraction of the sky obscured by clouds, in that particular month / country. Data derived from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA’s Earth Observatory, MODIS Atmosphere Science Team, 2020, https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MODAL2_M_CLD_FR (old link: https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MODAL2_M_CLD_FR ) "CENTR_latitude" and "CENTR_longitude" : Latitude and Longitude of the country centroid, for each country. Data derived from Google LLC, "Dataset publishing language: country centroids", https://developers.google.com/public-data/docs/canonical/countries_csv NOTE: This is identical in every month (obviuously); it is redundantly included for easier monthly sectional analysis of the data. =========== Versioning of the dataset: MAJOR: changes yearly; 1 = 2020 MINOR: changes if new monthly data is added in that particular year. PATCH: Changes only if errors or minor edits were performed. =========== CHANGELOG: Version 2.0.0.COVID-19_Mortality_Cloudiness_Insolation_EUROPE_March_December_2020.csv - CERES/FLASHFLUX data for August-December 2020 became available at new links at nasa.gov - These data were gathered, analyzed and introduced in this dataset (2.0.0). - updated links for CERES/FLASHFLUX and MODIS dataset - added DOI link for preprint - minor edits on text. -Dataset file source for this version (internal analysis source file): db_covid_all-ANALYSIS.2020-all-year_versiunea18d.csv Version 1.0.0.COVID-19_Mortality_Cloudiness_Insolation_EUROPE_March_August_2020.csv First version Dataset file source for this version (internal analysis source file): db_covid_all-ANALYSIS.2020-09-22_r10.csv