OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Earth System Science Data is 60. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
World Atlas of late Quaternary Foraminiferal Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Ratios	1779
Hourly historical and near-future weather and climate variables for energy system modelling	1466
Primary productivity measurements in the Ross Sea, Antarctica: a regional synthesis	936
STAR NDSI collection: a cloud-free MODIS NDSI dataset (2001–2020) for China	894
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies	584
A global dataset of spatiotemporally seamless daily mean land surface temperatures: generation, validation, and analysis	444
Polar maps of C-band backscatter parameters from the Advanced Scatterometer	392
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques	389
An 11-year record of XCO₂ estimates derived from GOSAT measurements using the NASA ACOS version 9 retrieval algorithm	214
The Large eddy Observatory, Voitsumra Experiment 2019 (LOVE19) with high-resolution, spatially distributed observations of air temperature, wind speed, and wind direction from fiber-optic distributed	189
Improved BEC SMOS Arctic Sea Surface Salinity product v3.1	145
A flux tower dataset tailored for land model evaluation	140
Median bed-material sediment particle size across rivers in the contiguous US	126
New high-resolution estimates of the permafrost thermal state and hydrothermal conditions over the Northern Hemisphere	121
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)	118
The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records	109
COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors	109
Long-term energy balance measurements at three different mountain permafrost sites in the Swiss Alps	108
Compilation of a database of Holocene nearshore marine mollusk shell geochemistry from the California Current System	103
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)	103
Global GOSAT, OCO-2, and OCO-3 solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence datasets	103
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES	99
GISD30: global 30 m impervious-surface dynamic dataset from 1985 to 2020 using time-series Landsat imagery on the Google Earth Engine platform	99
Presentation and discussion of the high-resolution atmosphere–land-surface–subsurface simulation dataset of the simulated Neckar catchment for the period 2007–2015	98
LamaH-CE: LArge-SaMple DAta for Hydrology and Environmental Sciences for Central Europe	94

Measurements of morphodynamics of a sheltered beach along the Dutch Wadden Sea	93
Hyperspectral reflectance dataset of pristine, weathered, and biofouled plastics	90
TRIMS LST: a daily 1 km all-weather land surface temperature dataset for China's landmass and surrounding areas (2000–2022)	90
High-resolution water level and storage variation datasets for 338 reservoirs in China during 2010–2021	88
Evaluating the transport of surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using ¹³⁷Cs deposited in the global ocean as a chemical tracer	87
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium	87
Classification and mapping of European fuels using a hierarchical, multipurpose fuel classification system	87
MDAS: a new multimodal benchmark dataset for remote sensing	85
WaterBench-Iowa: a large-scale benchmark dataset for data-driven streamflow forecasting	83
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020	82
A global gridded dataset for cloud vertical structure from combined CloudSat and CALIPSO observations	81
Meteorological, snow and soil data, CO₂, water and energy fluxes from a low-Arctic valley of Northern Quebec	78
High-resolution digital outcrop model of the faults, fractures, and stratigraphy of the Agardhfjellet Formation cap rock shales at Konusdalen West, central Spitsbergen	76
Harmonized European Union subnational crop statistics can reveal climate impacts and crop cultivation shifts	75
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) time series and velocities about a slowly convergent margin processed on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters: products and robustness evaluation	73
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)	72
High-resolution physicochemical dataset of atmospheric aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings	71
A 100 m gridded population dataset of China's seventh census using ensemble learning and big geospatial data	71
Synthesis Product for Ocean Time Series (SPOTS) – a ship-based biogeochemical pilot	71
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015	70
Laboratory data linking the reconfiguration of and drag on individual plants to the velocity structure and wave dissipation over a meadow of salt marsh plants under waves with and without current	67
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)	65
3D reconstruction of horizontal and vertical quasi-geostrophic currents in the North Atlantic Ocean	65
A global dataset of the shape of drainage systems	64
Deconstruction of tropospheric chemical reactivity using aircraft measurements: the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) data	64
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N₂ fixation	64
Developing a spatially explicit global oil and gas infrastructure database for characterizing methane emission sources at high resolution	63
CLIM4OMICS: a geospatially comprehensive climate and multi-OMICS database for maize phenotype predictability in the United States and Canada	62
China Building Rooftop Area: the first multi-annual (2016–2021) and high-resolution (2.5 m) building rooftop area dataset in China derived with super-resolution segmentation from Sentinel-2 imagery	62
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset	61
Exploring multi-decadal time series of temperature extremes in Australian coastal waters	61
Catalogue of coastal-based instances with bathymetric and topographic data	61
12 years of continuous atmospheric O₂, CO₂ and APO data from Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in the United Kingdom	61
An integrated and homogenized global surface solar radiation dataset and its reconstruction based on a convolutional neural network approach	60
High-resolution aerosol data from the top 3.8 kyr of the East Greenland Ice coring Project (EGRIP) ice core	60