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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global biogeography of N2-fixing microbes: nifH amplicon database and analytics workflow2165
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques1818
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)1095
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)971
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets665
A year of attenuation data from a commercial dual-polarized duplex microwave link with concurrent disdrometer, rain gauge, and weather observations597
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)234
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015210
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)171
North SEAL: a new dataset of sea level changes in the North Sea from satellite altimetry158
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????)3 aircraft campaign124
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries123
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES121
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll-a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet121
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures117
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites117
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies116
Coastal complexity of the Antarctic continent116
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean111
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset109
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia109
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach108
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium106
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020104
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
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau102
Rates and timing of chlorophyll-a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes101
Bias-corrected and spatially disaggregated seasonal forecasts: a long-term reference forecast product for the water sector in semi-arid regions98
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N2 fixation96
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)95
Status of the Tibetan Plateau observatory (Tibet-Obs) and a 10-year (2009–2019) surface soil moisture dataset95
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset92
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses92
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine90
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202290
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs90
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas86
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-Wakes85
PM2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202283
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean81
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC81
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning79
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types79
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery79
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region77
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202377
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana75
Turbulence dissipation rate estimated from lidar observations during the LAPSE-RATE field campaign75
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign74
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom72
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
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea69
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations69
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica68
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)67
OCTOPUS database (v.2)66
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand65
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile65
A 30 m terrace mapping in China using Landsat 8 imagery and digital elevation model based on the Google Earth Engine64
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations62
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s61
The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000–2018) to support air quality modelling and policies61
A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China60
The annual update GLODAPv2.2023: the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product59
Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s58
Insights into the spatial distribution of global, national, and subnational greenhouse gas emissions in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v8.0)58
Global Carbon Budget 202258
A daily sunshine duration (SD) dataset in China from Himawari AHI imagery (2016–2023)57
French coastal network for carbonate system monitoring: the CocoriCO2 dataset56
EARice10: a 10 m resolution annual rice distribution map of East Asia for 202356
AltiMaP: altimetry mapping procedure for hydrography data56
A 30 m annual maize phenology dataset from 1985 to 2020 in China56
QUADICA: water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes for large-sample studies in Germany56
The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys56
Recovery of the first ever multi-year lidar dataset of the stratospheric aerosol layer, from Lexington, MA, and Fairbanks, AK, January 1964 to July 196555
A database of deep convective systems derived from the intercalibrated meteorological geostationary satellite fleet and the TOOCAN algorithm (2012–2020)55
Annual hydrographic variability in Antarctic coastal waters infused with glacial inflow52
Attenuated atmospheric backscatter profiles measured by the CO2 Sounder lidar in the 2017 ASCENDS/ABoVE airborne campaign52
SDUST2020 MSS: a global 1′ × 1′ mean sea surface model determined from multi-satellite altimetry data52
Data rescue of historical wind observations in Sweden since the 1920s51
First SMOS Sea Surface Salinity dedicated products over the Baltic Sea51
Bio-optical properties of the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena51
A submesoscale eddy identification dataset in the northwest Pacific Ocean derived from GOCI I chlorophyll a data based on deep learning50
CO2 and hydrography acquired by autonomous surface vehicles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea: data correction and validation50
Multitemporal characterization of a proglacial system: a multidisciplinary approach50
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) daily and monthly level-3 products of atmospheric trace gas columns50
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 NDVI50
A hydrogeomorphic dataset for characterizing catchment hydrological behavior across the Tibetan Plateau50
Description of a global marine particulate organic carbon-13 isotope data set49
Spatially resolved hourly traffic emission over megacity Delhi using advanced traffic flow data48
High-resolution map of sugarcane cultivation in Brazil using a phenology-based method48
Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from wood fuel use by households48
A hyperspectral and multi-angular synthetic dataset for algorithm development in waters of varying trophic levels and optical complexity48
EUREC4A's Maria S. Merian ship-based cloud and micro rain radar observations of clouds and precipitation47
Estimating local agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) across the world46
A global database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires46
Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–202245
VODCA2GPP – a new, global, long-term (1988–2020) gross primary production dataset from microwave remote sensing45
Mapping global non-floodplain wetlands44
Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region44
Global and national CO2 uptake by cement carbonation from 1928 to 202444
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 co43
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network's GGG2020 data version43
Map of forest tree species for Poland based on Sentinel-2 data43
Monitoring the ocean heat content change and the Earth energy imbalance from space altimetry and space gravimetry43
Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research43
A long-term high-resolution air quality reanalysis with a public-facing air quality dashboard over the Contiguous United States (CONUS)42
A 45-year hydrological and planktonic time series in the South Bight of the North Sea42
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
The ABCflux database: Arctic–boreal CO2 flux observations and ancillary information aggregated to monthly time steps across terrestrial ecosystems42
Lagoon hydrodynamics of pearl farming islands: the case of Gambier (French Polynesia)42
Meteorological and hydrological data from the Alder Creek watershed, SW Ontario41
CALC-2020: a new baseline land cover map at 10 m resolution for the circumpolar Arctic40
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
Reprocessing of eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) profiles from the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas over the time period 1999–2019 with a full metadata upgrade40
A global 5 km monthly potential evapotranspiration dataset (1982–2015) estimated by the Shuttleworth–Wallace model40
A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications – version three39
CMEMS-LSCE: a global, 0.25°, monthly reconstruction of the surface ocean carbonate system39
Greenland Geothermal Heat Flow Database and Map (Version 1)39
Glacier changes in the Chhombo Chhu Watershed of the Tista basin between 1975 and 2018, the Sikkim Himalaya, India39
Temporal and spatial mapping of theoretical biomass potential across the European Union38
Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database38
Ice core chemistry database: an Antarctic compilation of sodium and sulfate records spanning the past 2000 years38
Harmonized in situ datasets for agricultural land use mapping and monitoring in tropical countries38
Processing methodology for the ITS_LIVE Sentinel-1 ice velocity products38
Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers”38
A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 2000–202038
High-resolution aerosol concentration data from the Greenland NorthGRIP and NEEM deep ice cores37
Global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and uncertainties as a prior for Earth system modelling and data assimilation37
Three years of soil moisture observations by a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensing cluster at an agricultural research site in north-east Germany37
A high-resolution Antarctic grounding zone product from ICESat-2 laser altimetry37
Radar and ground-level measurements of clouds and precipitation collected during the POPE 2020 campaign at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica37
Bivalve monitoring over French coasts: multi-decadal records of carbon and nitrogen elemental and isotopic ratios as ecological indicators of global change36
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 observation36
A new operational Mediterranean diurnal optimally interpolated sea surface temperature product within the Copernicus Marine Service35
Mass balances of Yala and Rikha Samba glaciers, Nepal, from 2000 to 201735
A national extent map of cropland and grassland for Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data35
Hydrometeorological, glaciological and geospatial research data from the Peyto Glacier Research Basin in the Canadian Rockies35
Observations of the downwelling far-infrared atmospheric emission at the Zugspitze observatory35
An updated synthesis of ocean total alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon measurements from 1993 to 2023: the SNAPO-CO2-v2 dataset35
World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Global Lightning Climatology (WGLC) and time series, 2022 update34
Editorial: Science, data and society34
The Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon (MOSAIC): version 2.034
Enhanced dataset of global marine isoprene emissions from biogenic and photochemical processes for the period 2001–202034
Last interglacial sea-level proxies in the glaciated Northern Hemisphere34
Ten years of 1 Hz solar irradiance observations at Cabauw, the Netherlands, with cloud observations, variability classifications, and statistics32
Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Mediterranean32
The WGLC global gridded lightning climatology and time series32
MOPREDAScentury: a long-term monthly precipitation grid for the Spanish mainland32
Gridded rainfall erosivity (2014–2022) in mainland China using 1 min precipitation data from densely distributed weather stations31
A global seamless 1 km resolution daily land surface temperature dataset (2003–2020)31
CASCADE – The Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE31
Retrieving ground-level PM2.5 concentrations in China (2013–2021) with a numerical-model-informed testbed to mitigate sample-imbalance-induced biases30
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
A high-resolution synthesis dataset for multistressor analyses along the US West Coast30
Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008–2019) for the East–Taylor subbasin (western United States)30
Monsoon Asia Rice Calendar (MARC): a gridded rice calendar in monsoon Asia based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images30
The CISE-LOCEAN seawater isotopic database (1998–2021)29
Microwave radiometry experiment for snow in Altay, China: time series of in situ data for electromagnetic and physical features of snowpack29
EUPollMap: the European atlas of contemporary pollen distribution maps derived from an integrated Kriging interpolation approach29
An integrated dataset of ground hydrothermal regimes and soil nutrients monitored in some previously burned areas in hemiboreal forests in Northeast China during 2016–202229
Global dataset on seagrass meadow structure, biomass and production28
Greenland ice velocity maps from the PROMICE project28
A Sentinel-2 machine learning dataset for tree species classification in Germany28
High-resolution inventory of atmospheric emissions from transport, industrial, energy, mining and residential activities in Chile27
Full-coverage 1 km daily ambient PM2.5 and O3 concentrations of China in 2005–2017 based on a multi-variable random forest model27
Fire weather index data under historical and shared socioeconomic pathway projections in the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project from 1850 to 210027
A global daily gap-filled chlorophyll-a dataset in open oceans during 2001–2021 from multisource information using convolutional neural networks27
Global Carbon Budget 202327
Historical and future weather data for dynamic building simulations in Belgium using the regional climate model MAR: typical and extreme meteorological year and heatwaves27
12 years of continuous atmospheric O2, CO2 and APO data from Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in the United Kingdom26
High-resolution bathymetry models for the Lena Delta and Kolyma Gulf coastal zones26
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
Compilation of a database of Holocene nearshore marine mollusk shell geochemistry from the California Current System25
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
OceanSODA-UNEXE: a multi-year gridded Amazon and Congo River outflow surface ocean carbonate system dataset25
MDAS: a new multimodal benchmark dataset for remote sensing24
The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records24
High-resolution physicochemical dataset of atmospheric aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings24
Advancing geodynamic research in Antarctica: reprocessing GNSS data to infer consistent coordinate time series (GIANT-REGAIN)24
Mapping global leaf inclination angle (LIA) based on field measurement data24
Hourly historical and near-future weather and climate variables for energy system modelling24
Dataset of 1 km cropland cover from 1690 to 1999 in Scandinavia24
Evaluating the transport of surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using 137Cs deposited in the global ocean as a chemical tracer24
An observational network of ground surface temperature under different land-cover types on the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau23
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)23
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 China23
UGS-1m: fine-grained urban green space mapping of 31 major cities in China based on the deep learning framework23
The NIEER AVHRR snow cover extent product over China – a long-term daily snow record for regional climate research23
A new global dataset of mountain glacier centerlines and lengths23
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 Sea22
High-resolution observations of the ocean upper layer south of Cape St. Vincent, the western northern margin of the Gulf of Cádiz22
ISASO2: recent trends and regional patterns of ocean dissolved oxygen change22
Multispecies and high-spatiotemporal-resolution database of vehicular emissions in Brazil22
Pan-Arctic soil element bioavailability estimations22
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
A new global oceanic multi-model net primary productivity data product22
Modern air, englacial and permafrost temperatures at high altitude on Mt Ortles (3905 m a.s.l.), in the eastern European Alps21
Advanced NO2 retrieval technique for the Brewer spectrophotometer applied to the 20-year record in Rome, Italy21
A new multi-grid bathymetric dataset of the Gulf of Naples (Italy) from complementary multi-beam echo sounders21
Permafrost, active layer, and meteorological data (2010–2020) at the Mahan Mountain relict permafrost site of northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau21
EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe21
An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.202121
The polar mesospheric cloud dataset of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)21
The ULR-repro3 GPS data reanalysis and its estimates of vertical land motion at tide gauges for sea level science21
A global long-term (1981–2019) daily land surface radiation budget product from AVHRR satellite data using a residual convolutional neural network21
Global Covenant of Mayors, a dataset of greenhouse gas emissions for 6200 cities in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries21
A repository of measured soil freezing characteristic curves: 1921 to 202120
The Western Channel Observatory: a century of physical, chemical and biological data compiled from pelagic and benthic habitats in the western English Channel20
A global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the Underwater Vision Profiler 520
Ground- and ship-based microwave radiometer measurements during EUREC4A20
SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database20
BAWLD-CH4: a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems20
Predictive mapping of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin20
Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords19
Soil moisture observation in a forested headwater catchment: combining a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensor network with roving and hydrogravimetry at the TERENO site Wüstebach19
Multifrequency radar observations of marine clouds during the EPCAPE campaign19
Integration by design: driving mineral system knowledge using multi-modal, collocated, scale-consistent characterisation19
A global monthly 3D field of seawater pH over 3 decades: a machine learning approach19
A multi-dimensional dataset of Ordovician to Silurian graptolite specimens for virtual examination, global correlation, and shale gas exploration19
River network and hydro-geomorphological parameters at 1∕12° resolution for global hydrological and climate studies19
Past and future discharge and stream temperature at high spatial resolution in a large European basin (Loire basin, France)19
Water vapor Raman lidar observations from multiple sites in the framework of WaLiNeAs19
Coastal Atmosphere and Sea Time Series (CoASTS) and Bio-Optical mapping of Marine Properties (BiOMaP): the CoASTS-BiOMaP dataset19
HOLSEA-NL: a Holocene water level and sea level indicator dataset for the Netherlands19
An integrated observation dataset of the hydrological and thermal deformation in permafrost slopes and engineering infrastructure in the Qinghai–Tibet Engineering Corridor19
GloCAB: global cropland burned area from mid-2002 to 202019
Global Emissions Inventory from Open Biomass Burning (GEIOBB): utilizing Fengyun-3D global fire spot monitoring data19
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
Harmonized Soil Database of Ecuador (HESD): data from 2009 to 201519
Artemisia pollen dataset for exploring the potential ecological indicators in deep time18
Reference maps of soil phosphorus for the pan-Amazon region18
Global 1 km land surface parameters for kilometer-scale Earth system modeling18
AQ-Bench: a benchmark dataset for machine learning on global air quality metrics18
CAMELS-DE: hydro-meteorological time series and attributes for 1582 catchments in Germany18
GRILSS: opening the gateway to global reservoir sedimentation data curation18
INSTANCE – the Italian seismic dataset for machine learning18
A global surface CO2 flux dataset (2015–2022) inferred from OCO-2 retrievals using the GONGGA inversion system18
Updated observations of clouds by MODIS for global model assessment18
High-frequency, year-round time series of the carbonate chemistry in a high-Arctic fjord (Svalbard)18
Calving fronts and where to find them: a benchmark dataset and methodology for automatic glacier calving front extraction from synthetic aperture radar imagery18
A global map of root biomass across the world's forests18
Mapping 10 m global impervious surface area (GISA-10m) using multi-source geospatial data18
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