Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The median citation count of Earth System Science Data is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques1302
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)1069
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)859
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets226
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records215
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)180
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries164
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)164
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset155
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll-a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet152
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015147
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020144
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites144
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs143
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????)3 aircraft campaign141
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau141
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia138
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean131
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach128
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies127
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)127
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N2 fixation127
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES124
The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023122
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset118
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses118
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures117
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium113
Rates and timing of chlorophyll-a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes112
Machine-learning-based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data106
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine105
Global biogeography of N2-fixing microbes: nifH amplicon database and analytics workflow104
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 d103
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery102
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign96
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202291
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean89
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations88
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region87
OLIGOTREND, a global database of multi-decadal chlorophyll a and water quality time series for rivers, lakes, and estuaries86
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types86
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana84
GCL-Mascon2024: a novel satellite gravimetry mascon solution using the short-arc approach84
Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s83
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea81
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) Antarctic automatic weather station data, including surface radiation balance (1995–2022)80
PM2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202279
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand78
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)77
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s76
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202374
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC73
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176172
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years70
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica70
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-Wakes70
A lacustrine surface-sediment pollen dataset covering the Tibetan Plateau and its potential in past vegetation and climate reconstructions70
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning69
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas68
China's annual forest age dataset at a 30 m spatial resolution from 1986 to 202268
A merged continental planetary boundary layer height dataset based on high-resolution radiosonde measurements, ERA5 reanalysis, and GLDAS68
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile67
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations64
Global Carbon Budget 202264
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)61
A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China61
The annual update GLODAPv2.2023: the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product61
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom61
The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000–2018) to support air quality modelling and policies60
French coastal network for carbonate system monitoring: the CocoriCO2 dataset59
Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region58
A revisiting of early 18th-century environmental data to identify Gulf of Lion properties before the industrial era58
Global gridded NOx emissions using TROPOMI observations57
Multitemporal characterization of a proglacial system: a multidisciplinary approach57
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) daily and monthly level-3 products of atmospheric trace gas columns57
First SMOS Sea Surface Salinity dedicated products over the Baltic Sea56
Attenuated atmospheric backscatter profiles measured by the CO2 Sounder lidar in the 2017 ASCENDS/ABoVE airborne campaign56
A 30 m annual maize phenology dataset from 1985 to 2020 in China56
Data rescue of historical wind observations in Sweden since the 1920s55
A submesoscale eddy identification dataset in the northwest Pacific Ocean derived from GOCI I chlorophyll a data based on deep learning54
CO2 and hydrography acquired by autonomous surface vehicles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea: data correction and validation54
Estimating local agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) across the world52
High-resolution map of sugarcane cultivation in Brazil using a phenology-based method52
The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys51
A global database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires51
EUREC4A's Maria S. Merian ship-based cloud and micro rain radar observations of clouds and precipitation51
Global and national CO2 uptake by cement carbonation from 1928 to 202450
A hyperspectral and multi-angular synthetic dataset for algorithm development in waters of varying trophic levels and optical complexity50
AltiMaP: altimetry mapping procedure for hydrography data50
SDUST2020 MSS: a global 1′ × 1′ mean sea surface model determined from multi-satellite altimetry data50
A hydrogeomorphic dataset for characterizing catchment hydrological behavior across the Tibetan Plateau50
A daily sunshine duration (SD) dataset in China from Himawari AHI imagery (2016–2023)50
Map of forest tree species for Poland based on Sentinel-2 data49
Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from wood fuel use by households49
QUADICA: water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes for large-sample studies in Germany49
Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–202248
A database of deep convective systems derived from the intercalibrated meteorological geostationary satellite fleet and the TOOCAN algorithm (2012–2020)47
Capacity building enables unique near-fault observations of the destructive 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar earthquake47
VODCA2GPP – a new, global, long-term (1988–2020) gross primary production dataset from microwave remote sensing47
A continual-learning-based multilayer perceptron for improved reconstruction of three-dimensional nitrate concentrations46
Spatially resolved hourly traffic emission over megacity Delhi using advanced traffic flow data46
Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research46
Mapping global non-floodplain wetlands46
EARice10: a 10 m resolution annual rice distribution map of East Asia for 202346
Bio-optical properties of the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena45
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 NDVI45
Monitoring the ocean heat content change and the Earth energy imbalance from space altimetry and space gravimetry45
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network's GGG2020 data version43
Annual hydrographic variability in Antarctic coastal waters infused with glacial inflow42
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 co42
A 45-year hydrological and planktonic time series in the South Bight of the North Sea41
Reprocessing of eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) profiles from the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas over the time period 1999–2019 with a full metadata upgrade41
Lagoon hydrodynamics of pearl farming islands: the case of Gambier (French Polynesia)41
Meteorological and hydrological data from the Alder Creek watershed, SW Ontario41
Greenland Geothermal Heat Flow Database and Map (Version 1)40
A long-term high-resolution air quality reanalysis with a public-facing air quality dashboard over the Contiguous United States (CONUS)40
A global 5 km monthly potential evapotranspiration dataset (1982–2015) estimated by the Shuttleworth–Wallace model39
The ABCflux database: Arctic–boreal CO2 flux observations and ancillary information aggregated to monthly time steps across terrestrial ecosystems38
CMEMS-LSCE: a global, 0.25°, monthly reconstruction of the surface ocean carbonate system38
CALC-2020: a new baseline land cover map at 10 m resolution for the circumpolar Arctic38
A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 2000–202038
The complete 3-year dataset of 4STAR sky-scans from ORACLES 2016–201837
SDUST2023BCO: a global seafloor model determined from a multi-layer perceptron neural network using multi-source differential marine geodetic data37
Harmonized in situ datasets for agricultural land use mapping and monitoring in tropical countries36
A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications – version three36
A coarse pixel-scale ground “truth” dataset based on global in situ site measurements to support validation and bias correction of satellite surface albedo products36
Temporal and spatial mapping of theoretical biomass potential across the European Union35
High-resolution aerosol concentration data from the Greenland NorthGRIP and NEEM deep ice cores35
Ice core chemistry database: an Antarctic compilation of sodium and sulfate records spanning the past 2000 years35
MOPREDAScentury: a long-term monthly precipitation grid for the Spanish mainland35
Satellite-based analysis of ocean-surface stress across the ice-free and ice-covered polar oceans34
Editorial: Science, data and society34
Ten years of 1 Hz solar irradiance observations at Cabauw, the Netherlands, with cloud observations, variability classifications, and statistics34
Three years of soil moisture observations by a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensing cluster at an agricultural research site in north-east Germany33
Radar and ground-level measurements of clouds and precipitation collected during the POPE 2020 campaign at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica33
A new operational Mediterranean diurnal optimally interpolated sea surface temperature product within the Copernicus Marine Service33
A high-resolution Antarctic grounding zone product from ICESat-2 laser altimetry32
Last interglacial sea-level proxies in the glaciated Northern Hemisphere32
What is climate change doing in the Himalaya? Thirty years of the Pyramid Meteorological Network (Nepal)32
The Italian Archive of Historical Earthquake Data, ASMI31
Global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and uncertainties as a prior for Earth system modelling and data assimilation31
A high-resolution temperature–salinity dataset observed by autonomous underwater vehicles for the evolution of mesoscale eddies and associated submesoscale processes in the South China Sea31
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 observation31
Enhanced dataset of global marine isoprene emissions from biogenic and photochemical processes for the period 2001–202030
An updated synthesis of ocean total alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon measurements from 1993 to 2023: the SNAPO-CO2-v2 dataset30
World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Global Lightning Climatology (WGLC) and time series, 2022 update30
Bivalve monitoring over French coasts: multi-decadal records of carbon and nitrogen elemental and isotopic ratios as ecological indicators of global change30
Tracer-based Rapid Anthropogenic Carbon Estimation (TRACE)29
Processing methodology for the ITS_LIVE Sentinel-1 ice velocity products29
A national extent map of cropland and grassland for Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data29
A global seamless 1 km resolution daily land surface temperature dataset (2003–2020)29
The Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon (MOSAIC): version 2.029
Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers”29
Gridded rainfall erosivity (2014–2022) in mainland China using 1 min precipitation data from densely distributed weather stations29
An integrated dataset of ground hydrothermal regimes and soil nutrients monitored in some previously burned areas in hemiboreal forests in Northeast China during 2016–202228
Historical and future weather data for dynamic building simulations in Belgium using the regional climate model MAR: typical and extreme meteorological year and heatwaves28
Fire weather index data under historical and shared socioeconomic pathway projections in the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project from 1850 to 210028
The Dutch real-time gauge-adjusted radar precipitation product28
A global daily gap-filled chlorophyll-a dataset in open oceans during 2001–2021 from multisource information using convolutional neural networks28
High-resolution inventory of atmospheric emissions from transport, industrial, energy, mining and residential activities in Chile28
Monsoon Asia Rice Calendar (MARC): a gridded rice calendar in monsoon Asia based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images28
Microwave radiometry experiment for snow in Altay, China: time series of in situ data for electromagnetic and physical features of snowpack28
EUPollMap: the European atlas of contemporary pollen distribution maps derived from an integrated Kriging interpolation approach28
The CISE-LOCEAN seawater isotopic database (1998–2021)28
Ocean cross-validated observations from R/Vs L'Atalante, Maria S. Merian, and Meteor and related platforms as part of the EUREC4A-OA/ATOMIC campaign28
A high-resolution synthesis dataset for multistressor analyses along the US West Coast28
A Sentinel-2 machine learning dataset for tree species classification in Germany27
Full-coverage 1 km daily ambient PM2.5 and O3 concentrations of China in 2005–2017 based on a multi-variable random forest model27
Global dataset on seagrass meadow structure, biomass and production27
Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008–2019) for the East–Taylor subbasin (western United States)27
High-resolution inventory and classification of retrogressive thaw slumps in West Siberia27
Global Carbon Budget 202326
12 years of continuous atmospheric O2, CO2 and APO data from Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in the United Kingdom26
A vegetation phenology dataset developed by integrating multiple sources using the reliability ensemble averaging method26
Retrieving ground-level PM2.5 concentrations in China (2013–2021) with a numerical-model-informed testbed to mitigate sample-imbalance-induced biases26
Polar maps of C-band backscatter parameters from the Advanced Scatterometer26
OceanSODA-UNEXE: a multi-year gridded Amazon and Congo River outflow surface ocean carbonate system dataset26
Compilation of a database of Holocene nearshore marine mollusk shell geochemistry from the California Current System25
High-resolution bathymetry models for the Lena Delta and Kolyma Gulf coastal zones25
High-resolution physicochemical dataset of atmospheric aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings25
Mapping global leaf inclination angle (LIA) based on field measurement data25
Estimation of long-term gridded cloud radiative kernel and radiative effects based on cloud fraction25
EEAR-Clim: a high-density observational dataset of daily precipitation and air temperature for the Extended European Alpine Region25
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
MDAS: a new multimodal benchmark dataset for remote sensing24
Biologically effective daily radiant exposure for erythema appearance, previtamin D3 synthesis, and clearing of psoriatic lesions derived from erythemal broadband meters at Belsk, Poland, f24
Advancing geodynamic research in Antarctica: reprocessing GNSS data to infer consistent coordinate time series (GIANT-REGAIN)24
GISD30: global 30 m impervious-surface dynamic dataset from 1985 to 2020 using time-series Landsat imagery on the Google Earth Engine platform24
Antarctic Ice Sheet grounding line discharge from 1996–202424
Evaluating the transport of surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using 137Cs deposited in the global ocean as a chemical tracer24
A global gridded dataset for cloud vertical structure from combined CloudSat and CALIPSO observations24
Near-real-time atmospheric and oceanic science products of Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 geostationary satellites over the South China Sea24
Meteorological, snow and soil data, CO2, water and energy fluxes from a low-Arctic valley of Northern Quebec24
Hourly historical and near-future weather and climate variables for energy system modelling24
UGS-1m: fine-grained urban green space mapping of 31 major cities in China based on the deep learning framework24
The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records24
BAWLD-CH4: a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems23
A 1 km soil moisture dataset over eastern CONUS generated by assimilating SMAP data into the Noah-MP land surface model23
Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords23
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
Modern air, englacial and permafrost temperatures at high altitude on Mt Ortles (3905 m a.s.l.), in the eastern European Alps23
ISASO2: recent trends and regional patterns of ocean dissolved oxygen change22
The polar mesospheric cloud dataset of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)22
Ground- and ship-based microwave radiometer measurements during EUREC4A22
River network and hydro-geomorphological parameters at 1∕12° resolution for global hydrological and climate studies22
A global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the Underwater Vision Profiler 522
Europe's adaptation to the energy crisis: reshaped gas supply–transmission–consumption structures and driving factors from 2022 to 202422
Multispecies and high-spatiotemporal-resolution database of vehicular emissions in Brazil22
The Western Channel Observatory: a century of physical, chemical and biological data compiled from pelagic and benthic habitats in the western English Channel22
Permafrost–wildfire interactions: active layer thickness estimates for paired burned and unburned sites in northern high latitudes22
Updates to C-LSAT 2.1 and the development of high-resolution land surface air temperature and diurnal temperature range datasets21
Pan-Arctic soil element bioavailability estimations21
An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.202121
A global long-term (1981–2019) daily land surface radiation budget product from AVHRR satellite data using a residual convolutional neural network21
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 China21
A new global dataset of mountain glacier centerlines and lengths21
State of Wildfires 2024–202521
Permafrost, active layer, and meteorological data (2010–2020) at the Mahan Mountain relict permafrost site of northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau21
Predictive mapping of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin21
GloCAB: global cropland burned area from mid-2002 to 202021
High-resolution observations of the ocean upper layer south of Cape St. Vincent, the western northern margin of the Gulf of Cádiz21
cigChannel: a large-scale 3D seismic dataset with labeled paleochannels for advancing deep learning in seismic interpretation21
An observational network of ground surface temperature under different land-cover types on the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau21
EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe21
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
Global Emissions Inventory from Open Biomass Burning (GEIOBB): utilizing Fengyun-3D global fire spot monitoring data21
A multi-dimensional dataset of Ordovician to Silurian graptolite specimens for virtual examination, global correlation, and shale gas exploration20
HOLSEA-NL: a Holocene water level and sea level indicator dataset for the Netherlands20
Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2)20
SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database20
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 learning20
A consistent dataset for the net income distribution for 190 countries and aggregated to 32 geographical regions from 1958 to 201520
Integration by design: driving mineral system knowledge using multi-modal, collocated, scale-consistent characterisation20
The ULR-repro3 GPS data reanalysis and its estimates of vertical land motion at tide gauges for sea level science20
A repository of measured soil freezing characteristic curves: 1921 to 202120
The Coastal Surveillance Through Observation of Ocean Color (COASTℓOOC) dataset20
Water vapor Raman lidar observations from multiple sites in the framework of WaLiNeAs20
Reference maps of soil phosphorus for the pan-Amazon region20
A new multi-grid bathymetric dataset of the Gulf of Naples (Italy) from complementary multi-beam echo sounders20
A new global oceanic multi-model net primary productivity data product20
Harmonized Soil Database of Ecuador (HESD): data from 2009 to 201520
Coastal Atmosphere and Sea Time Series (CoASTS) and Bio-Optical mapping of Marine Properties (BiOMaP): the CoASTS-BiOMaP dataset20
High-frequency, year-round time series of the carbonate chemistry in a high-Arctic fjord (Svalbard)19
Updated observations of clouds by MODIS for global model assessment19
IT-SNOW: a snow reanalysis for Italy blending modeling, in situ data, and satellite observations (2010–2021)19
Multifrequency radar observations of marine clouds during the EPCAPE campaign19
GRILSS: opening the gateway to global reservoir sedimentation data curation19
A new high-resolution multi-drought-index dataset for mainland China19
A global surface CO2 flux dataset (2015–2022) inferred from OCO-2 retrievals using the GONGGA inversion system19
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