Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The median citation count of Earth System Science Data is 7. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global biogeography of N2-fixing microbes: nifH amplicon database and analytics workflow2241
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques1901
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)1130
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)996
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets644
A year of attenuation data from a commercial dual-polarized duplex microwave link with concurrent disdrometer, rain gauge, and weather observations215
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)185
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015171
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs128
North SEAL: a new dataset of sea level changes in the North Sea from satellite altimetry128
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)128
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries128
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau124
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium122
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records121
Rates and timing of chlorophyll-a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes117
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine115
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????)3 aircraft campaign113
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll-a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet112
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures110
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 d109
Coastal complexity of the Antarctic continent109
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)108
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset106
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES106
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean105
Status of the Tibetan Plateau observatory (Tibet-Obs) and a 10-year (2009–2019) surface soil moisture dataset104
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020102
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites99
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses99
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies98
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia96
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N2 fixation94
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset90
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach88
Machine-learning-based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data88
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202287
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas85
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC84
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean83
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery81
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana80
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region79
Turbulence dissipation rate estimated from lidar observations during the LAPSE-RATE field campaign76
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign75
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years75
A merged continental planetary boundary layer height dataset based on high-resolution radiosonde measurements, ERA5 reanalysis, and GLDAS75
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica73
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations73
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176173
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s72
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom71
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand70
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)70
PM2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202269
OCTOPUS database (v.2)69
Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s69
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202367
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile63
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning63
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-Wakes63
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea62
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations61
Insights into the spatial distribution of global, national, and subnational greenhouse gas emissions in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v8.0)61
The annual update GLODAPv2.2023: the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product61
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types61
A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China60
The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000–2018) to support air quality modelling and policies58
Attenuated atmospheric backscatter profiles measured by the CO2 Sounder lidar in the 2017 ASCENDS/ABoVE airborne campaign58
Global Carbon Budget 202258
Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region57
A daily sunshine duration (SD) dataset in China from Himawari AHI imagery (2016–2023)56
French coastal network for carbonate system monitoring: the CocoriCO2 dataset56
The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys55
AltiMaP: altimetry mapping procedure for hydrography data54
SDUST2020 MSS: a global 1′ × 1′ mean sea surface model determined from multi-satellite altimetry data54
QUADICA: water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes for large-sample studies in Germany54
A database of deep convective systems derived from the intercalibrated meteorological geostationary satellite fleet and the TOOCAN algorithm (2012–2020)54
EARice10: a 10 m resolution annual rice distribution map of East Asia for 202354
Multitemporal characterization of a proglacial system: a multidisciplinary approach53
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) daily and monthly level-3 products of atmospheric trace gas columns53
Data rescue of historical wind observations in Sweden since the 1920s53
A hydrogeomorphic dataset for characterizing catchment hydrological behavior across the Tibetan Plateau52
Enhancing long-term vegetation monitoring in Australia: a new approach for harmonising the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer normalised-difference vegetation index (NDVI) with MODIS NDVI51
CO2 and hydrography acquired by autonomous surface vehicles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea: data correction and validation51
A submesoscale eddy identification dataset in the northwest Pacific Ocean derived from GOCI I chlorophyll a data based on deep learning51
Spatially resolved hourly traffic emission over megacity Delhi using advanced traffic flow data50
Description of a global marine particulate organic carbon-13 isotope data set50
A continual-learning-based multilayer perceptron for improved reconstruction of three-dimensional nitrate concentrations49
EUREC4A's Maria S. Merian ship-based cloud and micro rain radar observations of clouds and precipitation49
Annual hydrographic variability in Antarctic coastal waters infused with glacial inflow49
Global and national CO2 uptake by cement carbonation from 1928 to 202449
Recovery of the first ever multi-year lidar dataset of the stratospheric aerosol layer, from Lexington, MA, and Fairbanks, AK, January 1964 to July 196548
Estimating local agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) across the world48
Bio-optical properties of the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena46
Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–202246
A 30 m annual maize phenology dataset from 1985 to 2020 in China45
VODCA2GPP – a new, global, long-term (1988–2020) gross primary production dataset from microwave remote sensing45
Map of forest tree species for Poland based on Sentinel-2 data45
High-resolution map of sugarcane cultivation in Brazil using a phenology-based method45
Monitoring the ocean heat content change and the Earth energy imbalance from space altimetry and space gravimetry44
A hyperspectral and multi-angular synthetic dataset for algorithm development in waters of varying trophic levels and optical complexity44
GLC_FCS30D: the first global 30 m land-cover dynamics monitoring product with a fine classification system for the period from 1985 to 2022 generated using dense-time-series Landsat imagery and the co44
Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from wood fuel use by households44
Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research44
First SMOS Sea Surface Salinity dedicated products over the Baltic Sea44
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network's GGG2020 data version43
A global database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires43
Mapping global non-floodplain wetlands42
Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey42
SDUST2023BCO: a global seafloor model determined from a multi-layer perceptron neural network using multi-source differential marine geodetic data42
A 45-year hydrological and planktonic time series in the South Bight of the North Sea42
Lagoon hydrodynamics of pearl farming islands: the case of Gambier (French Polynesia)42
A long-term high-resolution air quality reanalysis with a public-facing air quality dashboard over the Contiguous United States (CONUS)41
The ABCflux database: Arctic–boreal CO2 flux observations and ancillary information aggregated to monthly time steps across terrestrial ecosystems40
Meteorological and hydrological data from the Alder Creek watershed, SW Ontario40
CALC-2020: a new baseline land cover map at 10 m resolution for the circumpolar Arctic40
Harmonized in situ datasets for agricultural land use mapping and monitoring in tropical countries40
A coarse pixel-scale ground “truth” dataset based on global in situ site measurements to support validation and bias correction of satellite surface albedo products40
CMEMS-LSCE: a global, 0.25°, monthly reconstruction of the surface ocean carbonate system39
A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications – version three39
Greenland Geothermal Heat Flow Database and Map (Version 1)39
A global 5 km monthly potential evapotranspiration dataset (1982–2015) estimated by the Shuttleworth–Wallace model39
Reprocessing of eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) profiles from the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas over the time period 1999–2019 with a full metadata upgrade39
Temporal and spatial mapping of theoretical biomass potential across the European Union38
A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 2000–202038
Global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and uncertainties as a prior for Earth system modelling and data assimilation38
Ice core chemistry database: an Antarctic compilation of sodium and sulfate records spanning the past 2000 years38
High-resolution aerosol concentration data from the Greenland NorthGRIP and NEEM deep ice cores38
Application of a new net primary production methodology: a daily to annual-scale data set for the North Sea, derived from autonomous underwater gliders and satellite Earth observation38
Processing methodology for the ITS_LIVE Sentinel-1 ice velocity products38
Bivalve monitoring over French coasts: multi-decadal records of carbon and nitrogen elemental and isotopic ratios as ecological indicators of global change38
Three years of soil moisture observations by a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensing cluster at an agricultural research site in north-east Germany38
Observations of the downwelling far-infrared atmospheric emission at the Zugspitze observatory37
An updated synthesis of ocean total alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon measurements from 1993 to 2023: the SNAPO-CO2-v2 dataset37
A new operational Mediterranean diurnal optimally interpolated sea surface temperature product within the Copernicus Marine Service36
Last interglacial sea-level proxies in the glaciated Northern Hemisphere36
MOPREDAScentury: a long-term monthly precipitation grid for the Spanish mainland35
The Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon (MOSAIC): version 2.035
A high-resolution Antarctic grounding zone product from ICESat-2 laser altimetry35
World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Global Lightning Climatology (WGLC) and time series, 2022 update35
Ten years of 1 Hz solar irradiance observations at Cabauw, the Netherlands, with cloud observations, variability classifications, and statistics35
Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers”35
Editorial: Science, data and society34
Enhanced dataset of global marine isoprene emissions from biogenic and photochemical processes for the period 2001–202034
Radar and ground-level measurements of clouds and precipitation collected during the POPE 2020 campaign at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica33
A national extent map of cropland and grassland for Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data33
Monsoon Asia Rice Calendar (MARC): a gridded rice calendar in monsoon Asia based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images32
The WGLC global gridded lightning climatology and time series32
Gridded rainfall erosivity (2014–2022) in mainland China using 1 min precipitation data from densely distributed weather stations32
Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Mediterranean32
A global seamless 1 km resolution daily land surface temperature dataset (2003–2020)32
Mass balances of Yala and Rikha Samba glaciers, Nepal, from 2000 to 201732
A high-resolution synthesis dataset for multistressor analyses along the US West Coast31
Ocean cross-validated observations from R/Vs L'Atalante, Maria S. Merian, and Meteor and related platforms as part of the EUREC4A-OA/ATOMIC campaign30
Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008–2019) for the East–Taylor subbasin (western United States)30
An integrated dataset of ground hydrothermal regimes and soil nutrients monitored in some previously burned areas in hemiboreal forests in Northeast China during 2016–202230
Retrieving ground-level PM2.5 concentrations in China (2013–2021) with a numerical-model-informed testbed to mitigate sample-imbalance-induced biases30
Historical and future weather data for dynamic building simulations in Belgium using the regional climate model MAR: typical and extreme meteorological year and heatwaves30
Full-coverage 1 km daily ambient PM2.5 and O3 concentrations of China in 2005–2017 based on a multi-variable random forest model29
EUPollMap: the European atlas of contemporary pollen distribution maps derived from an integrated Kriging interpolation approach29
A global daily gap-filled chlorophyll-a dataset in open oceans during 2001–2021 from multisource information using convolutional neural networks28
A Sentinel-2 machine learning dataset for tree species classification in Germany28
Global dataset on seagrass meadow structure, biomass and production27
High-resolution inventory of atmospheric emissions from transport, industrial, energy, mining and residential activities in Chile27
Microwave radiometry experiment for snow in Altay, China: time series of in situ data for electromagnetic and physical features of snowpack27
Greenland ice velocity maps from the PROMICE project27
The CISE-LOCEAN seawater isotopic database (1998–2021)27
Meteorological, snow and soil data, CO2, water and energy fluxes from a low-Arctic valley of Northern Quebec26
Polar maps of C-band backscatter parameters from the Advanced Scatterometer26
12 years of continuous atmospheric O2, CO2 and APO data from Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in the United Kingdom26
Global Carbon Budget 202326
OceanSODA-UNEXE: a multi-year gridded Amazon and Congo River outflow surface ocean carbonate system dataset26
High-resolution bathymetry models for the Lena Delta and Kolyma Gulf coastal zones26
Fire weather index data under historical and shared socioeconomic pathway projections in the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project from 1850 to 210026
Compilation of a database of Holocene nearshore marine mollusk shell geochemistry from the California Current System25
High-resolution physicochemical dataset of atmospheric aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings25
Four-century history of land transformation by humans in the United States (1630–2020): annual and 1 km grid data for the HIStory of LAND changes (HISLAND-US)25
A global gridded dataset for cloud vertical structure from combined CloudSat and CALIPSO observations25
EEAR-Clim: a high-density observational dataset of daily precipitation and air temperature for the Extended European Alpine Region25
The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records24
Estimation of long-term gridded cloud radiative kernel and radiative effects based on cloud fraction24
MDAS: a new multimodal benchmark dataset for remote sensing24
Mapping global leaf inclination angle (LIA) based on field measurement data24
Evaluating the transport of surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using 137Cs deposited in the global ocean as a chemical tracer24
Advancing geodynamic research in Antarctica: reprocessing GNSS data to infer consistent coordinate time series (GIANT-REGAIN)23
GISD30: global 30 m impervious-surface dynamic dataset from 1985 to 2020 using time-series Landsat imagery on the Google Earth Engine platform23
Near-real-time atmospheric and oceanic science products of Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 geostationary satellites over the South China Sea23
Hourly historical and near-future weather and climate variables for energy system modelling23
UGS-1m: fine-grained urban green space mapping of 31 major cities in China based on the deep learning framework23
Crop-specific management history of phosphorus fertilizer input (CMH-P) in the croplands of the United States: reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up data sources23
The NIEER AVHRR snow cover extent product over China – a long-term daily snow record for regional climate research23
High-resolution observations of the ocean upper layer south of Cape St. Vincent, the western northern margin of the Gulf of Cádiz23
A new global dataset of mountain glacier centerlines and lengths23
A new global oceanic multi-model net primary productivity data product22
The polar mesospheric cloud dataset of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)22
Permafrost, active layer, and meteorological data (2010–2020) at the Mahan Mountain relict permafrost site of northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau22
Modern air, englacial and permafrost temperatures at high altitude on Mt Ortles (3905 m a.s.l.), in the eastern European Alps22
The Western Channel Observatory: a century of physical, chemical and biological data compiled from pelagic and benthic habitats in the western English Channel22
Pan-Arctic soil element bioavailability estimations22
A new multi-grid bathymetric dataset of the Gulf of Naples (Italy) from complementary multi-beam echo sounders22
SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database22
Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords21
Ground- and ship-based microwave radiometer measurements during EUREC4A21
Soil moisture observation in a forested headwater catchment: combining a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensor network with roving and hydrogravimetry at the TERENO site Wüstebach21
ISASO2: recent trends and regional patterns of ocean dissolved oxygen change21
Advanced NO2 retrieval technique for the Brewer spectrophotometer applied to the 20-year record in Rome, Italy21
EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe21
A global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the Underwater Vision Profiler 521
Multispecies and high-spatiotemporal-resolution database of vehicular emissions in Brazil21
River network and hydro-geomorphological parameters at 1∕12° resolution for global hydrological and climate studies21
Predictive mapping of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin21
GloCAB: global cropland burned area from mid-2002 to 202021
A repository of measured soil freezing characteristic curves: 1921 to 202121
Global Emissions Inventory from Open Biomass Burning (GEIOBB): utilizing Fengyun-3D global fire spot monitoring data21
BAWLD-CH4: a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems20
Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2)20
An integrated observation dataset of the hydrological and thermal deformation in permafrost slopes and engineering infrastructure in the Qinghai–Tibet Engineering Corridor20
Multifrequency radar observations of marine clouds during the EPCAPE campaign20
Full-coverage 250 m monthly aerosol optical depth dataset (2000–2019) amended with environmental covariates by an ensemble machine learning model over arid and semi-arid areas, NW China20
An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.202120
A global long-term (1981–2019) daily land surface radiation budget product from AVHRR satellite data using a residual convolutional neural network20
A multi-dimensional dataset of Ordovician to Silurian graptolite specimens for virtual examination, global correlation, and shale gas exploration20
An observational network of ground surface temperature under different land-cover types on the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau20
Permafrost–wildfire interactions: active layer thickness estimates for paired burned and unburned sites in northern high latitudes20
Global Covenant of Mayors, a dataset of greenhouse gas emissions for 6200 cities in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries20
The ULR-repro3 GPS data reanalysis and its estimates of vertical land motion at tide gauges for sea level science20
Past and future discharge and stream temperature at high spatial resolution in a large European basin (Loire basin, France)20
HiTIC-Monthly: a monthly high spatial resolution (1 km) human thermal index collection over China during 2003–202019
Global 1 km land surface parameters for kilometer-scale Earth system modeling19
Reference maps of soil phosphorus for the pan-Amazon region19
A consistent dataset for the net income distribution for 190 countries and aggregated to 32 geographical regions from 1958 to 201519
IT-SNOW: a snow reanalysis for Italy blending modeling, in situ data, and satellite observations (2010–2021)19
Collection and analysis of a global marine phytoplankton primary-production dataset19
HOLSEA-NL: a Holocene water level and sea level indicator dataset for the Netherlands19
Coastal Atmosphere and Sea Time Series (CoASTS) and Bio-Optical mapping of Marine Properties (BiOMaP): the CoASTS-BiOMaP dataset19
Artemisia pollen dataset for exploring the potential ecological indicators in deep time19
A global map of root biomass across the world's forests19
Integration by design: driving mineral system knowledge using multi-modal, collocated, scale-consistent characterisation19
A revised and expanded deep radiostratigraphy of the Greenland Ice Sheet from airborne radar sounding surveys between 1993 and 201918
CAMELS-DE: hydro-meteorological time series and attributes for 1582 catchments in Germany18
Mapping 10 m global impervious surface area (GISA-10m) using multi-source geospatial data18
Updated observations of clouds by MODIS for global model assessment18
INSTANCE – the Italian seismic dataset for machine learning18
IPB-MSA&SO4: a daily 0.25° resolution dataset of in situ-produced biogenic methanesulfonic acid and sulfate over the North Atlantic during 1998–2022 based on machine learning18
Land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets18
Water vapor Raman lidar observations from multiple sites in the framework of WaLiNeAs18
Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)18
Improved global sea surface height and current maps from remote sensing and in situ observations18
A new high-resolution multi-drought-index dataset for mainland China18
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