%0 Dataset %T Daily RF AOD dataset in the Sichuan Basin, China (2015-2020) %J National Cryosphere Desert Data Center %I National Cryosphere Desert Data Center(www.ncdc.ac.cn) %U http://www.ncdc.ac.cn/portal/metadata/33887bb4-de19-44ec-8f7c-6415392a3268 %W NCDC %R 10.5281/zenodo.7641262 %A None %K Aerosol optical depth;random forests;cloudy areas %X The random forest (RF) machine learning method and multiple datasets are used to establish aerosol optical depth (AOD) dataset in the cloudy Sichuan Basin. Multiple datasets include ground-based PM10 and PM2.5, the AOD from the Sun-sky radiometer Observation Network (SONET) and the Second Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA-2) aerosol reanalysis, and several meteorological variables.