Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The H4-Index of Earth System Science Data is 62. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global biogeography of N2-fixing microbes: nifH amplicon database and analytics workflow2366
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques1998
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)1177
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)1021
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets698
A year of attenuation data from a commercial dual-polarized duplex microwave link with concurrent disdrometer, rain gauge, and weather observations220
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)197
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)186
North SEAL: a new dataset of sea level changes in the North Sea from satellite altimetry140
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records132
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????)3 aircraft campaign131
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES131
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll-a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet129
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015126
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures126
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset125
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia120
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)119
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020119
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N2 fixation118
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses116
Rates and timing of chlorophyll-a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes115
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies115
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium109
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset107
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean106
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach105
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau104
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs104
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites103
FORMS: Forest Multiple Source height, wood volume, and biomass maps in France at 10 to 30 m resolution based on Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) data with a d102
Machine-learning-based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data97
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries96
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202295
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine95
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean91
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery89
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand88
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana88
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile86
China's annual forest age dataset at a 30 m spatial resolution from 1986 to 202284
PM2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202283
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign80
A merged continental planetary boundary layer height dataset based on high-resolution radiosonde measurements, ERA5 reanalysis, and GLDAS79
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years77
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176177
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica76
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations76
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s74
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202374
In situ airborne measurements of atmospheric parameters and airborne sea surface properties related to offshore wind parks in the German Bight during the project X-Wakes74
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas72
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning72
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea71
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types70
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom70
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC67
Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s65
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations64
The annual update GLODAPv2.2023: the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product63
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)63
OCTOPUS database (v.2)62
Insights into the spatial distribution of global, national, and subnational greenhouse gas emissions in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v8.0)62
A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China62
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