Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth System Science Data is 17. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global biogeography of N2-fixing microbes: nifH amplicon database and analytics workflow2465
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques1225
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)1038
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)746
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets208
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)195
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)148
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records146
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES139
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures134
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia132
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015132
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies130
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)130
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020130
Rates and timing of chlorophyll-a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes128
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries127
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach120
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll-a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet119
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean118
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????)3 aircraft campaign116
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset113
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium111
The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023109
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau107
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs106
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites105
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses103
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine99
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 d98
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N2 fixation97
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset96
Machine-learning-based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data93
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202292
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean91
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand84
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana84
PM2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202282
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas80
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile78
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)78
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery78
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica77
China's annual forest age dataset at a 30 m spatial resolution from 1986 to 202277
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region76
Insights into the spatial distribution of global, national, and subnational greenhouse gas emissions in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v8.0)74
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign73
A merged continental planetary boundary layer height dataset based on high-resolution radiosonde measurements, ERA5 reanalysis, and GLDAS71
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years70
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176169
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s68
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations68
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
OLIGOTREND, a global database of multi-decadal chlorophyll a and water quality time series for rivers, lakes, and estuaries66
OCTOPUS database (v.2)66
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-Wakes65
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea64
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning64
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom64
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations63
Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s63
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
Global Carbon Budget 202260
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202360
GCL-Mascon2024: a novel satellite gravimetry mascon solution using the short-arc approach59
The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000–2018) to support air quality modelling and policies59
Attenuated atmospheric backscatter profiles measured by the CO2 Sounder lidar in the 2017 ASCENDS/ABoVE airborne campaign58
French coastal network for carbonate system monitoring: the CocoriCO2 dataset58
A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China58
A daily sunshine duration (SD) dataset in China from Himawari AHI imagery (2016–2023)58
EARice10: a 10 m resolution annual rice distribution map of East Asia for 202357
The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys57
AltiMaP: altimetry mapping procedure for hydrography data55
Bio-optical properties of the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena55
Mapping global non-floodplain wetlands55
CO2 and hydrography acquired by autonomous surface vehicles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea: data correction and validation54
A submesoscale eddy identification dataset in the northwest Pacific Ocean derived from GOCI I chlorophyll a data based on deep learning54
Data rescue of historical wind observations in Sweden since the 1920s54
Description of a global marine particulate organic carbon-13 isotope data set54
First SMOS Sea Surface Salinity dedicated products over the Baltic Sea53
A global database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires52
Global gridded NOx emissions using TROPOMI observations52
SDUST2020 MSS: a global 1′ × 1′ mean sea surface model determined from multi-satellite altimetry data51
Multitemporal characterization of a proglacial system: a multidisciplinary approach50
EUREC4A's Maria S. Merian ship-based cloud and micro rain radar observations of clouds and precipitation50
A continual-learning-based multilayer perceptron for improved reconstruction of three-dimensional nitrate concentrations49
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 196547
A database of deep convective systems derived from the intercalibrated meteorological geostationary satellite fleet and the TOOCAN algorithm (2012–2020)47
A hyperspectral and multi-angular synthetic dataset for algorithm development in waters of varying trophic levels and optical complexity46
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 NDVI46
VODCA2GPP – a new, global, long-term (1988–2020) gross primary production dataset from microwave remote sensing46
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) daily and monthly level-3 products of atmospheric trace gas columns46
Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research46
A hydrogeomorphic dataset for characterizing catchment hydrological behavior across the Tibetan Plateau45
Map of forest tree species for Poland based on Sentinel-2 data44
Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from wood fuel use by households44
Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–202243
Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region43
Monitoring the ocean heat content change and the Earth energy imbalance from space altimetry and space gravimetry43
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network's GGG2020 data version43
A 30 m annual maize phenology dataset from 1985 to 2020 in China43
High-resolution map of sugarcane cultivation in Brazil using a phenology-based method42
Estimating local agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) across the world42
A revisiting of early 18th-century environmental data to identify Gulf of Lion properties before the industrial era42
Spatially resolved hourly traffic emission over megacity Delhi using advanced traffic flow data42
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
Lagoon hydrodynamics of pearl farming islands: the case of Gambier (French Polynesia)41
QUADICA: water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes for large-sample studies in Germany41
Annual hydrographic variability in Antarctic coastal waters infused with glacial inflow41
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
A 45-year hydrological and planktonic time series in the South Bight of the North Sea40
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
The ABCflux database: Arctic–boreal CO2 flux observations and ancillary information aggregated to monthly time steps across terrestrial ecosystems39
Greenland Geothermal Heat Flow Database and Map (Version 1)39
Meteorological and hydrological data from the Alder Creek watershed, SW Ontario39
SDUST2023BCO: a global seafloor model determined from a multi-layer perceptron neural network using multi-source differential marine geodetic data39
A long-term high-resolution air quality reanalysis with a public-facing air quality dashboard over the Contiguous United States (CONUS)39
A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications – version three38
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
Harmonized in situ datasets for agricultural land use mapping and monitoring in tropical countries38
A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 2000–202037
High-resolution aerosol concentration data from the Greenland NorthGRIP and NEEM deep ice cores37
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 observation35
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 Sea35
Tracer-based Rapid Anthropogenic Carbon Estimation (TRACE)35
Bivalve monitoring over French coasts: multi-decadal records of carbon and nitrogen elemental and isotopic ratios as ecological indicators of global change35
The Italian Archive of Historical Earthquake Data, ASMI35
Global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and uncertainties as a prior for Earth system modelling and data assimilation34
Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers”33
Ice core chemistry database: an Antarctic compilation of sodium and sulfate records spanning the past 2000 years33
An updated synthesis of ocean total alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon measurements from 1993 to 2023: the SNAPO-CO2-v2 dataset33
Last interglacial sea-level proxies in the glaciated Northern Hemisphere33
Enhanced dataset of global marine isoprene emissions from biogenic and photochemical processes for the period 2001–202032
Observations of the downwelling far-infrared atmospheric emission at the Zugspitze observatory32
Temporal and spatial mapping of theoretical biomass potential across the European Union32
Editorial: Science, data and society31
Ten years of 1 Hz solar irradiance observations at Cabauw, the Netherlands, with cloud observations, variability classifications, and statistics31
Radar and ground-level measurements of clouds and precipitation collected during the POPE 2020 campaign at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica30
World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Global Lightning Climatology (WGLC) and time series, 2022 update30
The Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon (MOSAIC): version 2.030
A national extent map of cropland and grassland for Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data30
Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Mediterranean29
Satellite-based analysis of ocean-surface stress across the ice-free and ice-covered polar oceans29
A high-resolution Antarctic grounding zone product from ICESat-2 laser altimetry28
Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008–2019) for the East–Taylor subbasin (western United States)28
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
A global seamless 1 km resolution daily land surface temperature dataset (2003–2020)28
A new operational Mediterranean diurnal optimally interpolated sea surface temperature product within the Copernicus Marine Service28
Gridded rainfall erosivity (2014–2022) in mainland China using 1 min precipitation data from densely distributed weather stations28
Processing methodology for the ITS_LIVE Sentinel-1 ice velocity products28
Three years of soil moisture observations by a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensing cluster at an agricultural research site in north-east Germany28
MOPREDAScentury: a long-term monthly precipitation grid for the Spanish mainland28
Monsoon Asia Rice Calendar (MARC): a gridded rice calendar in monsoon Asia based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images28
A global daily gap-filled chlorophyll-a dataset in open oceans during 2001–2021 from multisource information using convolutional neural networks27
EUPollMap: the European atlas of contemporary pollen distribution maps derived from an integrated Kriging interpolation approach27
Full-coverage 1 km daily ambient PM2.5 and O3 concentrations of China in 2005–2017 based on a multi-variable random forest model27
Ocean cross-validated observations from R/Vs L'Atalante, Maria S. Merian, and Meteor and related platforms as part of the EUREC4A-OA/ATOMIC campaign27
The CISE-LOCEAN seawater isotopic database (1998–2021)27
Microwave radiometry experiment for snow in Altay, China: time series of in situ data for electromagnetic and physical features of snowpack27
High-resolution inventory of atmospheric emissions from transport, industrial, energy, mining and residential activities in Chile26
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
Global dataset on seagrass meadow structure, biomass and production26
A high-resolution synthesis dataset for multistressor analyses along the US West Coast26
Retrieving ground-level PM2.5 concentrations in China (2013–2021) with a numerical-model-informed testbed to mitigate sample-imbalance-induced biases26
A Sentinel-2 machine learning dataset for tree species classification in Germany26
Historical and future weather data for dynamic building simulations in Belgium using the regional climate model MAR: typical and extreme meteorological year and heatwaves26
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
EEAR-Clim: a high-density observational dataset of daily precipitation and air temperature for the Extended European Alpine Region25
OceanSODA-UNEXE: a multi-year gridded Amazon and Congo River outflow surface ocean carbonate system dataset25
Hourly historical and near-future weather and climate variables for energy system modelling25
Global Carbon Budget 202325
12 years of continuous atmospheric O2, CO2 and APO data from Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in the United Kingdom25
Compilation of a database of Holocene nearshore marine mollusk shell geochemistry from the California Current System25
Polar maps of C-band backscatter parameters from the Advanced Scatterometer25
Mapping global leaf inclination angle (LIA) based on field measurement data24
A global gridded dataset for cloud vertical structure from combined CloudSat and CALIPSO observations24
High-resolution bathymetry models for the Lena Delta and Kolyma Gulf coastal zones24
MDAS: a new multimodal benchmark dataset for remote sensing23
Advancing geodynamic research in Antarctica: reprocessing GNSS data to infer consistent coordinate time series (GIANT-REGAIN)23
Evaluating the transport of surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using 137Cs deposited in the global ocean as a chemical tracer23
Biologically effective daily radiant exposure for erythema appearance, previtamin D3 synthesis, and clearing of psoriatic lesions derived from erythemal broadband meters at Belsk, Poland, f23
High-resolution physicochemical dataset of atmospheric aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings23
The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records23
The NIEER AVHRR snow cover extent product over China – a long-term daily snow record for regional climate research23
GISD30: global 30 m impervious-surface dynamic dataset from 1985 to 2020 using time-series Landsat imagery on the Google Earth Engine platform23
Antarctic Ice Sheet grounding line discharge from 1996–202423
Estimation of long-term gridded cloud radiative kernel and radiative effects based on cloud fraction23
A vegetation phenology dataset developed by integrating multiple sources using the reliability ensemble averaging method23
UGS-1m: fine-grained urban green space mapping of 31 major cities in China based on the deep learning framework23
Meteorological, snow and soil data, CO2, water and energy fluxes from a low-Arctic valley of Northern Quebec22
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 sources22
The polar mesospheric cloud dataset of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)22
ISASO2: recent trends and regional patterns of ocean dissolved oxygen change22
A new global dataset of mountain glacier centerlines and lengths22
Soil moisture observation in a forested headwater catchment: combining a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensor network with roving and hydrogravimetry at the TERENO site Wüstebach22
The Western Channel Observatory: a century of physical, chemical and biological data compiled from pelagic and benthic habitats in the western English Channel22
Near-real-time atmospheric and oceanic science products of Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 geostationary satellites over the South China Sea22
Modern air, englacial and permafrost temperatures at high altitude on Mt Ortles (3905 m a.s.l.), in the eastern European Alps22
Ground- and ship-based microwave radiometer measurements during EUREC4A22
Multispecies and high-spatiotemporal-resolution database of vehicular emissions in Brazil21
A new multi-grid bathymetric dataset of the Gulf of Naples (Italy) from complementary multi-beam echo sounders21
Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords21
Europe's adaptation to the energy crisis: reshaped gas supply–transmission–consumption structures and driving factors from 2022 to 202421
An observational network of ground surface temperature under different land-cover types on the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau21
Advanced NO2 retrieval technique for the Brewer spectrophotometer applied to the 20-year record in Rome, Italy21
River network and hydro-geomorphological parameters at 1∕12° resolution for global hydrological and climate studies21
An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.202121
Pan-Arctic soil element bioavailability estimations21
Permafrost–wildfire interactions: active layer thickness estimates for paired burned and unburned sites in northern high latitudes21
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 global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the Underwater Vision Profiler 521
Global Emissions Inventory from Open Biomass Burning (GEIOBB): utilizing Fengyun-3D global fire spot monitoring data21
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
Predictive mapping of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin20
High-resolution observations of the ocean upper layer south of Cape St. Vincent, the western northern margin of the Gulf of Cádiz20
The ULR-repro3 GPS data reanalysis and its estimates of vertical land motion at tide gauges for sea level science20
BAWLD-CH4: a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems20
EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe20
A repository of measured soil freezing characteristic curves: 1921 to 202120
Permafrost, active layer, and meteorological data (2010–2020) at the Mahan Mountain relict permafrost site of northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau20
Multifrequency radar observations of marine clouds during the EPCAPE campaign19
Water vapor Raman lidar observations from multiple sites in the framework of WaLiNeAs19
High-frequency, year-round time series of the carbonate chemistry in a high-Arctic fjord (Svalbard)19
HOLSEA-NL: a Holocene water level and sea level indicator dataset for the Netherlands19
cigChannel: a large-scale 3D seismic dataset with labeled paleochannels for advancing deep learning in seismic interpretation19
A multi-dimensional dataset of Ordovician to Silurian graptolite specimens for virtual examination, global correlation, and shale gas exploration19
IT-SNOW: a snow reanalysis for Italy blending modeling, in situ data, and satellite observations (2010–2021)19
GRILSS: opening the gateway to global reservoir sedimentation data curation19
A revised and expanded deep radiostratigraphy of the Greenland Ice Sheet from airborne radar sounding surveys between 1993 and 201919
Integration by design: driving mineral system knowledge using multi-modal, collocated, scale-consistent characterisation19
A global long-term (1981–2019) daily land surface radiation budget product from AVHRR satellite data using a residual convolutional neural network19
Past and future discharge and stream temperature at high spatial resolution in a large European basin (Loire basin, France)19
Updated observations of clouds by MODIS for global model assessment19
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 learning19
Artemisia pollen dataset for exploring the potential ecological indicators in deep time19
A new global oceanic multi-model net primary productivity data product19
GloCAB: global cropland burned area from mid-2002 to 202019
Collection and analysis of a global marine phytoplankton primary-production dataset18
A consistent dataset for the net income distribution for 190 countries and aggregated to 32 geographical regions from 1958 to 201518
Reference maps of soil phosphorus for the pan-Amazon region18
HiTIC-Monthly: a monthly high spatial resolution (1 km) human thermal index collection over China during 2003–202018
Harmonized Soil Database of Ecuador (HESD): data from 2009 to 201518
Mapping 10 m global impervious surface area (GISA-10m) using multi-source geospatial data18
Improved global sea surface height and current maps from remote sensing and in situ observations18
A global surface CO2 flux dataset (2015–2022) inferred from OCO-2 retrievals using the GONGGA inversion system18
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