Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The H4-Index of Earth System Science Data is 65. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????) 3 aircraft campaign1547
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation1183
Rates and timing of chlorophyll- a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes496
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)349
Global biogeography of N 2 -fixing microbes: nifH  amplicon database and analytics workflow286
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020286
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)252
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach230
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies227
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records222
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures220
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015203
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)197
An inter-comparison of inverse models for estimating European CH 4 emissions191
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium182
The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023176
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau172
ChinaAI-FSC: a comprehensive AI-ready MODIS fractional snow cover dataset for China (2000–2022)170
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean168
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites163
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets162
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset155
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine150
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries145
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses143
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs133
Machine-learning-based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data122
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset120
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll- a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet119
Dynamics of China's forest carbon storage: the first 30 m annual aboveground biomass mapping from 1985 to 2023116
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 d116
CAMELS-NZ: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for New Zealand112
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) Antarctic automatic weather station data, including surface radiation balance (1995–2022)107
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery102
Dataset of oil slicks, look-alikes and remarkable SAR signatures obtained from Sentinel-1 data in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea100
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176199
Hourly precipitation fields at 1 km resolution over Belgium from 1940 to 2016 based on the analog technique99
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations97
PM 2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202296
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years95
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean94
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand93
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC92
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types87
China's annual forest age dataset at a 30 m spatial resolution from 1986 to 202286
GCL-Mascon2024: a novel satellite gravimetry mascon solution using the short-arc approach85
The countrywide historical gravity dataset of Lithuanian territory84
A 1 km hourly high-resolution 3D wind field dataset over the Yangtze River Delta incorporating dynamical downscaling, observational assimilation, and land use updates81
A harmonized 2000–2024 dataset of daily river ice concentration and annual phenology for major Arctic rivers80
A merged continental planetary boundary layer height dataset based on high-resolution radiosonde measurements, ERA5 reanalysis, and GLDAS79
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica79
A high-resolution (0.05°) global seamless continuity record (2002–2023) of near-surface soil freeze-thaw states via passive microwave and optical satellite data79
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom78
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 202277
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana76
A lacustrine surface-sediment pollen dataset covering the Tibetan Plateau and its potential in past vegetation and climate reconstructions73
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)73
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202373
Estimation of CFC-11 emissions from coal combustion in China70
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning69
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region69
The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000–2018) to support air quality modelling and policies68
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea67
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile67
OCTOPUS database (v.2)65
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