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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Coastal complexity of the Antarctic continent2080
Global biogeography of N2-fixing microbes: nifH amplicon database and analytics workflow1722
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia1069
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques955
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)641
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)544
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets232
A year of attenuation data from a commercial dual-polarized duplex microwave link with concurrent disdrometer, rain gauge, and weather observations207
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)159
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015149
North SEAL: a new dataset of sea level changes in the North Sea from satellite altimetry119
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)119
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????)3 aircraft campaign117
Status of the Tibetan Plateau observatory (Tibet-Obs) and a 10-year (2009–2019) surface soil moisture dataset117
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries115
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll-a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet111
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES110
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020110
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium108
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine107
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures104
Bias-corrected and spatially disaggregated seasonal forecasts: a long-term reference forecast product for the water sector in semi-arid regions103
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 d102
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset101
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites100
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses100
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs95
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach93
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean92
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N2 fixation91
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies88
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)87
Rates and timing of chlorophyll-a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes86
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau82
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202380
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas80
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202280
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)78
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-Wakes78
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC77
PM2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202277
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean76
A climate index for the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf76
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery75
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region75
Turbulence dissipation rate estimated from lidar observations during the LAPSE-RATE field campaign74
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana74
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign73
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom71
A merged continental planetary boundary layer height dataset based on high-resolution radiosonde measurements, ERA5 reanalysis, and GLDAS70
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand68
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years68
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176167
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations67
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea66
The annual update GLODAPv2.2023: the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product66
OCTOPUS database (v.2)65
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s65
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica64
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning63
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types63
Insights into the spatial distribution of global, national, and subnational greenhouse gas emissions in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v8.0)63
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations62
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