DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6906265
title: COVID-19 mortality correlation with cloudiness, sunlight, latitude in European countries

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