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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ESSDD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2026-367</article-id>
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<article-title>HiMIC-Daily: A high-resolution (daily and 1 km) multi-indicator atmospheric moisture collection over China, 2003&amp;ndash;2020</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Su</surname>
<given-names>Zhiying</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Hui</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wu</surname>
<given-names>Sijia</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zeng</surname>
<given-names>Zhaoliang</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Tao</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6681-7983</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Luo</surname>
<given-names>Ming</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-3892</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Geo-Simulation, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather Meteorological Science and Technology &amp; Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Meteorology, Chinese Academy of  Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>School of Resources and Environment, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>13</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>39</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Zhiying Su et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Near-surface atmospheric moisture is a fundamental component of the hydrological cycle and plays a key role in regulating land-atmosphere exchanges and surface energy partitioning. Reliable daily high-resolution moisture data are essential for regional climate analysis and fine-scale applications, particularly for capturing short-term variability and extreme moisture dynamics. With complex terrain and a dense population, China is highly vulnerable to extreme hydro-meteorological extremes, yet existing moisture products over China are largely constrained by coarse temporal resolution, insufficient spatial detail, and limited indicators. Here, we present HiMIC-Daily, a seamless daily 1-km-resolution near-surface atmospheric moisture dataset for China, 2003&amp;ndash;2020. HiMIC-Daily provides a comprehensive suite of six widely used indicators that characterize atmospheric moisture from different perspectives: actual vapor pressure (AVP), dew point temperature (DPT), mixing ratio (MR), relative humidity (RH), specific humidity (SH), and vapor pressure deficit (VPD). This dataset is generated using the Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) framework, which integrates in-situ observations from 2419 meteorological stations with multiple environmental and temporal covariates, including ERA5-Land derived near-surface temperature and DPT, AVP, land surface temperature, topography, and day of year. Validation against observations shows that HiMIC-Daily achieves robust performance across all six indicators, with &lt;em&gt;R&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; values ranging from 0.877 to 0.989. The strongest performance is obtained for AVP, DPT, MR, and SH, with &lt;em&gt;R&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; values exceeding 0.985, and error metrics remain within acceptable ranges for all indicators (e.g., mean absolute error of 0.677 hPa and a root mean square error of 0.933 hPa for AVP). Compared with two existing coarse resolution products, HiMIC-Daily provides finer spatial detail, higher accuracy, and more realistic temporal variability across different climatic regions. These capabilities support spatially explicit studies of climate variability and environmental processes. The HiMIC-Daily dataset is publicly available at &lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.11888/Atmos.tpdc.303449&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://doi.org/10.11888/Atmos.tpdc.303449&lt;/a&gt;.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>42371028</award-id>
<award-id>42322110</award-id>
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