Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The H4-Index of Earth System Science Data is 63. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets1371
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites1110
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation960
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques246
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)233
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll- a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet233
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)233
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records194
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)183
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)168
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES160
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies159
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau156
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries154
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia154
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium152
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset151
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures150
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020144
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????) 3 aircraft campaign143
Dynamics of China's forest carbon storage: the first 30 m annual aboveground biomass mapping from 1985 to 2023133
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015132
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs131
Rates and timing of chlorophyll- a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes126
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses125
Global biogeography of N 2 -fixing microbes: nifH  amplicon database and analytics workflow123
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean117
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)115
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 d113
The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023112
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset109
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine107
Machine-learning-based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data105
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach104
OLIGOTREND, a global database of multi-decadal chlorophyll a and water quality time series for rivers, lakes, and estuaries103
Measurement of the ice-nucleating particle concentration using a mobile filter-based sampler on-board of a fixed-wing uncrewed aerial vehicle during the Pallas Cloud Experiment 202298
Hourly precipitation fields at 1 km resolution over Belgium from 1940 to 2016 based on the analog technique96
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana92
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand90
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-Wakes90
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region89
A lacustrine surface-sediment pollen dataset covering the Tibetan Plateau and its potential in past vegetation and climate reconstructions89
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC88
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176188
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations87
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean85
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202383
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea83
CAMELS-NZ: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for New Zealand80
A high-resolution (0.05°) global seamless continuity record (2002–2023) of near-surface soil freeze-thaw states via passive microwave and optical satellite data79
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign79
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)77
Estimation of CFC-11 emissions from coal combustion in China76
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery74
OCTOPUS database (v.2)73
Dataset of oil slicks, look-alikes and remarkable SAR signatures obtained from Sentinel-1 data in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea72
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica72
China's annual forest age dataset at a 30 m spatial resolution from 1986 to 202271
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas69
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile69
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202267
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) Antarctic automatic weather station data, including surface radiation balance (1995–2022)65
PM 2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202263
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