Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The H4-Index of Earth System Science Data is 62. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium1512
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll- a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet1151
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????) 3 aircraft campaign442
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)327
Rates and timing of chlorophyll- a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes280
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation271
Machine-learning-based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data242
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 d219
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine213
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset207
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries206
Dynamics of China's forest carbon storage: the first 30 m annual aboveground biomass mapping from 1985 to 2023191
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset183
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses180
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean175
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau165
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs162
The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023161
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020157
ChinaAI-FSC: a comprehensive AI-ready MODIS fractional snow cover dataset for China (2000–2022)156
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures152
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies146
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets138
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia136
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records136
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015128
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)117
An inter-comparison of inverse models for estimating European CH 4 emissions112
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites111
Global biogeography of N 2 -fixing microbes: nifH  amplicon database and analytics workflow110
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)107
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach105
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC103
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea99
A 1 km hourly high-resolution 3D wind field dataset over the Yangtze River Delta incorporating dynamical downscaling, observational assimilation, and land use updates96
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery94
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176194
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region94
PM 2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202292
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years92
Dataset of oil slicks, look-alikes and remarkable SAR signatures obtained from Sentinel-1 data in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea92
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations92
Hourly precipitation fields at 1 km resolution over Belgium from 1940 to 2016 based on the analog technique90
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand83
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean82
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign81
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202279
CAMELS-NZ: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for New Zealand78
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-Wakes77
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) Antarctic automatic weather station data, including surface radiation balance (1995–2022)76
A lacustrine surface-sediment pollen dataset covering the Tibetan Plateau and its potential in past vegetation and climate reconstructions75
The countrywide historical gravity dataset of Lithuanian territory75
GCL-Mascon2024: a novel satellite gravimetry mascon solution using the short-arc approach74
Measurement of the ice-nucleating particle concentration using a mobile filter-based sampler on-board of a fixed-wing uncrewed aerial vehicle during the Pallas Cloud Experiment 202273
A harmonized 2000–2024 dataset of daily river ice concentration and annual phenology for major Arctic rivers73
Estimation of CFC-11 emissions from coal combustion in China71
A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China70
A high-resolution (0.05°) global seamless continuity record (2002–2023) of near-surface soil freeze-thaw states via passive microwave and optical satellite data69
Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s67
OCTOPUS database (v.2)66
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s63
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types63
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom62
OLIGOTREND, a global database of multi-decadal chlorophyll a and water quality time series for rivers, lakes, and estuaries62
China's annual forest age dataset at a 30 m spatial resolution from 1986 to 202262
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile62
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