Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The H4-Index of Earth System Science Data is 64. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques1264
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)1054
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)797
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets214
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll-a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet205
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records165
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)156
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)148
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)147
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies140
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020139
Rates and timing of chlorophyll-a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes139
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures137
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs137
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites135
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????)3 aircraft campaign134
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses124
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach124
Machine-learning-based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data122
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau122
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset118
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium116
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries116
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia115
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean112
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES112
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015107
Global biogeography of N2-fixing microbes: nifH amplicon database and analytics workflow106
The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023106
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N2 fixation104
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine103
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset101
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 d99
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-Wakes95
The annual update GLODAPv2.2023: the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product94
China's annual forest age dataset at a 30 m spatial resolution from 1986 to 202289
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery87
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign86
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile85
PM2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202283
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202283
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean82
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations80
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning78
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176178
Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s77
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region77
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types76
OLIGOTREND, a global database of multi-decadal chlorophyll a and water quality time series for rivers, lakes, and estuaries75
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s73
OCTOPUS database (v.2)73
GCL-Mascon2024: a novel satellite gravimetry mascon solution using the short-arc approach72
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years72
The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000–2018) to support air quality modelling and policies71
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC71
Insights into the spatial distribution of global, national, and subnational greenhouse gas emissions in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v8.0)71
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea70
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202367
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand67
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas67
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations66
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica66
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) Antarctic automatic weather station data, including surface radiation balance (1995–2022)66
A merged continental planetary boundary layer height dataset based on high-resolution radiosonde measurements, ERA5 reanalysis, and GLDAS65
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