COVID-19 mortality correlation with cloudiness, sunlight, latitude in European countries

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