Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth System Science Data is 16. 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
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)119
North SEAL: a new dataset of sea level changes in the North Sea from satellite altimetry119
Status of the Tibetan Plateau observatory (Tibet-Obs) and a 10-year (2009–2019) surface soil moisture dataset117
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????)3 aircraft campaign117
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
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses100
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
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
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
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202380
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
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)78
PM2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202277
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
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean76
A climate index for the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf76
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region75
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery75
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
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years68
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand68
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations67
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176167
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
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s65
OCTOPUS database (v.2)65
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica64
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
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning63
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations62
A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China61
Global Carbon Budget 202259
The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000–2018) to support air quality modelling and policies58
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile58
A 30 m terrace mapping in China using Landsat 8 imagery and digital elevation model based on the Google Earth Engine57
Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s57
A daily sunshine duration (SD) dataset in China from Himawari AHI imagery (2016–2023)55
Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region55
The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys54
Spatially resolved hourly traffic emission over megacity Delhi using advanced traffic flow data54
Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–202254
High-resolution map of sugarcane cultivation in Brazil using a phenology-based method54
A 30 m annual maize phenology dataset from 1985 to 2020 in China54
Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from wood fuel use by households53
Monitoring the ocean heat content change and the Earth energy imbalance from space altimetry and space gravimetry52
A global database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires52
Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research50
GLC_FCS30D: the first global 30 m land-cover dynamics monitoring product with a fine classification system for the period from 1985 to 2022 generated using dense-time-series Landsat imagery and the co50
French coastal network for carbonate system monitoring: the CocoriCO2 dataset50
Mapping global non-floodplain wetlands50
Recovery of the first ever multi-year lidar dataset of the stratospheric aerosol layer, from Lexington, MA, and Fairbanks, AK, January 1964 to July 196549
A database of deep convective systems derived from the intercalibrated meteorological geostationary satellite fleet and the TOOCAN algorithm (2012–2020)49
The first pan-Alpine surface-gravity database, a modern compilation that crosses frontiers49
AltiMaP: altimetry mapping procedure for hydrography data49
Annual hydrographic variability in Antarctic coastal waters infused with glacial inflow48
Bio-optical properties of the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena47
EUREC4A's Maria S. Merian ship-based cloud and micro rain radar observations of clouds and precipitation47
Data rescue of historical wind observations in Sweden since the 1920s47
SDUST2020 MSS: a global 1′ × 1′ mean sea surface model determined from multi-satellite altimetry data47
Attenuated atmospheric backscatter profiles measured by the CO2 Sounder lidar in the 2017 ASCENDS/ABoVE airborne campaign47
Multitemporal characterization of a proglacial system: a multidisciplinary approach46
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) daily and monthly level-3 products of atmospheric trace gas columns46
First SMOS Sea Surface Salinity dedicated products over the Baltic Sea46
A hydrogeomorphic dataset for characterizing catchment hydrological behavior across the Tibetan Plateau45
A submesoscale eddy identification dataset in the northwest Pacific Ocean derived from GOCI I chlorophyll a data based on deep learning45
CO2 and hydrography acquired by autonomous surface vehicles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea: data correction and validation45
Enhancing long-term vegetation monitoring in Australia: a new approach for harmonising the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer normalised-difference vegetation index (NDVI) with MODIS NDVI44
EARice10: a 10 m resolution annual rice distribution map of East Asia for 202344
Description of a global marine particulate organic carbon-13 isotope data set43
Estimating local agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) across the world43
A hyperspectral and multi-angular synthetic dataset for algorithm development in waters of varying trophic levels and optical complexity43
VODCA2GPP – a new, global, long-term (1988–2020) gross primary production dataset from microwave remote sensing42
Map of forest tree species for Poland based on Sentinel-2 data42
QUADICA: water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes for large-sample studies in Germany42
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network's GGG2020 data version41
CALC-2020: a new baseline land cover map at 10 m resolution for the circumpolar Arctic41
A coarse pixel-scale ground “truth” dataset based on global in situ site measurements to support validation and bias correction of satellite surface albedo products41
Lagoon hydrodynamics of pearl farming islands: the case of Gambier (French Polynesia)40
Greenland Geothermal Heat Flow Database and Map (Version 1)40
Reprocessing of eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) profiles from the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas over the time period 1999–2019 with a full metadata upgrade40
SDUST2023BCO: a global seafloor model determined from a multi-layer perceptron neural network using multi-source differential marine geodetic data39
Glacier changes in the Chhombo Chhu Watershed of the Tista basin between 1975 and 2018, the Sikkim Himalaya, India39
A 45-year hydrological and planktonic time series in the South Bight of the North Sea39
A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 2000–202039
The ABCflux database: Arctic–boreal CO2 flux observations and ancillary information aggregated to monthly time steps across terrestrial ecosystems39
Meteorological and hydrological data from the Alder Creek watershed, SW Ontario39
Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey38
Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database38
CMEMS-LSCE: a global, 0.25°, monthly reconstruction of the surface ocean carbonate system38
A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications – version three38
Ice core chemistry database: an Antarctic compilation of sodium and sulfate records spanning the past 2000 years37
A global 5 km monthly potential evapotranspiration dataset (1982–2015) estimated by the Shuttleworth–Wallace model37
Editorial: Science, data and society37
Harmonized in situ datasets for agricultural land use mapping and monitoring in tropical countries37
Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers”37
Temporal and spatial mapping of theoretical biomass potential across the European Union36
Processing methodology for the ITS_LIVE Sentinel-1 ice velocity products36
Three years of soil moisture observations by a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensing cluster at an agricultural research site in north-east Germany36
A high-resolution Antarctic grounding zone product from ICESat-2 laser altimetry36
High-resolution aerosol concentration data from the Greenland NorthGRIP and NEEM deep ice cores36
Bivalve monitoring over French coasts: multi-decadal records of carbon and nitrogen elemental and isotopic ratios as ecological indicators of global change35
Radar and ground-level measurements of clouds and precipitation collected during the POPE 2020 campaign at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica35
Application of a new net primary production methodology: a daily to annual-scale data set for the North Sea, derived from autonomous underwater gliders and satellite Earth observation35
Global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and uncertainties as a prior for Earth system modelling and data assimilation35
A national extent map of cropland and grassland for Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data35
CASCADE – The Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE34
An updated synthesis of ocean total alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon measurements from 1993 to 2023: the SNAPO-CO2-v2 dataset34
The Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon (MOSAIC): version 2.034
Enhanced dataset of global marine isoprene emissions from biogenic and photochemical processes for the period 2001–202034
MOPREDAScentury: a long-term monthly precipitation grid for the Spanish mainland34
Mass balances of Yala and Rikha Samba glaciers, Nepal, from 2000 to 201734
Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Mediterranean33
The WGLC global gridded lightning climatology and time series33
Last interglacial sea-level proxies in the glaciated Northern Hemisphere33
Integrated water vapour observations in the Caribbean arc from a network of ground-based GNSS receivers during EUREC4A32
Hydrometeorological, glaciological and geospatial research data from the Peyto Glacier Research Basin in the Canadian Rockies31
Ten years of 1 Hz solar irradiance observations at Cabauw, the Netherlands, with cloud observations, variability classifications, and statistics31
Observations of the downwelling far-infrared atmospheric emission at the Zugspitze observatory31
A global seamless 1 km resolution daily land surface temperature dataset (2003–2020)30
World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Global Lightning Climatology (WGLC) and time series, 2022 update30
A new operational Mediterranean diurnal optimally interpolated sea surface temperature product within the Copernicus Marine Service30
Historical and future weather data for dynamic building simulations in Belgium using the regional climate model MAR: typical and extreme meteorological year and heatwaves29
Gridded rainfall erosivity (2014–2022) in mainland China using 1 min precipitation data from densely distributed weather stations29
Monsoon Asia Rice Calendar (MARC): a gridded rice calendar in monsoon Asia based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images29
High-resolution inventory of atmospheric emissions from transport, industrial, energy, mining and residential activities in Chile29
Retrieving ground-level PM2.5 concentrations in China (2013–2021) with a numerical-model-informed testbed to mitigate sample-imbalance-induced biases28
Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008–2019) for the East–Taylor subbasin (western United States)28
A high-resolution synthesis dataset for multistressor analyses along the US West Coast28
A global daily gap-filled chlorophyll-a dataset in open oceans during 2001–2021 from multisource information using convolutional neural networks28
Ocean cross-validated observations from R/Vs L'Atalante, Maria S. Merian, and Meteor and related platforms as part of the EUREC4A-OA/ATOMIC campaign27
Fire weather index data under historical and shared socioeconomic pathway projections in the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project from 1850 to 210027
Microwave radiometry experiment for snow in Altay, China: time series of in situ data for electromagnetic and physical features of snowpack27
The CISE-LOCEAN seawater isotopic database (1998–2021)27
EUPollMap: the European atlas of contemporary pollen distribution maps derived from an integrated Kriging interpolation approach27
An integrated dataset of ground hydrothermal regimes and soil nutrients monitored in some previously burned areas in hemiboreal forests in Northeast China during 2016–202227
12 years of continuous atmospheric O2, CO2 and APO data from Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in the United Kingdom26
Global Carbon Budget 202326
Greenland ice velocity maps from the PROMICE project26
High-resolution bathymetry models for the Lena Delta and Kolyma Gulf coastal zones26
Global dataset on seagrass meadow structure, biomass and production26
A Sentinel-2 machine learning dataset for tree species classification in Germany26
Polar maps of C-band backscatter parameters from the Advanced Scatterometer26
Full-coverage 1 km daily ambient PM2.5 and O3 concentrations of China in 2005–2017 based on a multi-variable random forest model26
Compilation of a database of Holocene nearshore marine mollusk shell geochemistry from the California Current System25
Meteorological, snow and soil data, CO2, water and energy fluxes from a low-Arctic valley of Northern Quebec25
A global gridded dataset for cloud vertical structure from combined CloudSat and CALIPSO observations25
OceanSODA-UNEXE: a multi-year gridded Amazon and Congo River outflow surface ocean carbonate system dataset25
Evaluating the transport of surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using 137Cs deposited in the global ocean as a chemical tracer24
MDAS: a new multimodal benchmark dataset for remote sensing24
EEAR-Clim: a high-density observational dataset of daily precipitation and air temperature for the Extended European Alpine Region24
Hourly historical and near-future weather and climate variables for energy system modelling24
Dataset of 1 km cropland cover from 1690 to 1999 in Scandinavia24
Four-century history of land transformation by humans in the United States (1630–2020): annual and 1 km grid data for the HIStory of LAND changes (HISLAND-US)24
The NIEER AVHRR snow cover extent product over China – a long-term daily snow record for regional climate research23
Mapping global leaf inclination angle (LIA) based on field measurement data23
The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records23
GISD30: global 30 m impervious-surface dynamic dataset from 1985 to 2020 using time-series Landsat imagery on the Google Earth Engine platform23
High-resolution physicochemical dataset of atmospheric aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings23
A new global dataset of mountain glacier centerlines and lengths22
Ground- and ship-based microwave radiometer measurements during EUREC4A22
Near-real-time atmospheric and oceanic science products of Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 geostationary satellites over the South China Sea22
UGS-1m: fine-grained urban green space mapping of 31 major cities in China based on the deep learning framework22
Full-coverage 250 m monthly aerosol optical depth dataset (2000–2019) amended with environmental covariates by an ensemble machine learning model over arid and semi-arid areas, NW China22
Crop-specific management history of phosphorus fertilizer input (CMH-P) in the croplands of the United States: reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up data sources22
An observational network of ground surface temperature under different land-cover types on the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau22
High-resolution observations of the ocean upper layer south of Cape St. Vincent, the western northern margin of the Gulf of Cádiz22
Multispecies and high-spatiotemporal-resolution database of vehicular emissions in Brazil22
ISASO2: recent trends and regional patterns of ocean dissolved oxygen change21
Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords21
The ULR-repro3 GPS data reanalysis and its estimates of vertical land motion at tide gauges for sea level science21
Pan-Arctic soil element bioavailability estimations21
The polar mesospheric cloud dataset of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)21
BAWLD-CH4: a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems21
Advanced NO2 retrieval technique for the Brewer spectrophotometer applied to the 20-year record in Rome, Italy21
Soil moisture observation in a forested headwater catchment: combining a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensor network with roving and hydrogravimetry at the TERENO site Wüstebach21
An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.202121
A repository of measured soil freezing characteristic curves: 1921 to 202120
Modern air, englacial and permafrost temperatures at high altitude on Mt Ortles (3905 m a.s.l.), in the eastern European Alps20
The Western Channel Observatory: a century of physical, chemical and biological data compiled from pelagic and benthic habitats in the western English Channel20
A global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the Underwater Vision Profiler 520
Predictive mapping of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin20
Global Emissions Inventory from Open Biomass Burning (GEIOBB): utilizing Fengyun-3D global fire spot monitoring data20
GloCAB: global cropland burned area from mid-2002 to 202020
A global long-term (1981–2019) daily land surface radiation budget product from AVHRR satellite data using a residual convolutional neural network20
Permafrost, active layer, and meteorological data (2010–2020) at the Mahan Mountain relict permafrost site of northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau20
An integrated observation dataset of the hydrological and thermal deformation in permafrost slopes and engineering infrastructure in the Qinghai–Tibet Engineering Corridor19
A new global oceanic multi-model net primary productivity data product19
A new multi-grid bathymetric dataset of the Gulf of Naples (Italy) from complementary multi-beam echo sounders19
Past and future discharge and stream temperature at high spatial resolution in a large European basin (Loire basin, France)19
Multifrequency radar observations of marine clouds during the EPCAPE campaign19
River network and hydro-geomorphological parameters at 1∕12° resolution for global hydrological and climate studies19
Global Covenant of Mayors, a dataset of greenhouse gas emissions for 6200 cities in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries19
A multi-dimensional dataset of Ordovician to Silurian graptolite specimens for virtual examination, global correlation, and shale gas exploration19
Integration by design: driving mineral system knowledge using multi-modal, collocated, scale-consistent characterisation19
SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database19
EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe19
A multi-source 120-year US flood database with a unified common format and public access18
IT-SNOW: a snow reanalysis for Italy blending modeling, in situ data, and satellite observations (2010–2021)18
Water vapor Raman lidar observations from multiple sites in the framework of WaLiNeAs18
Collection and analysis of a global marine phytoplankton primary-production dataset18
AQ-Bench: a benchmark dataset for machine learning on global air quality metrics18
HiTIC-Monthly: a monthly high spatial resolution (1 km) human thermal index collection over China during 2003–202018
Improved global sea surface height and current maps from remote sensing and in situ observations18
HOLSEA-NL: a Holocene water level and sea level indicator dataset for the Netherlands18
Coastal Atmosphere and Sea Time Series (CoASTS) and Bio-Optical mapping of Marine Properties (BiOMaP): the CoASTS-BiOMaP dataset18
A consistent dataset for the net income distribution for 190 countries and aggregated to 32 geographical regions from 1958 to 201518
Harmonized Soil Database of Ecuador (HESD): data from 2009 to 201518
Calving fronts and where to find them: a benchmark dataset and methodology for automatic glacier calving front extraction from synthetic aperture radar imagery18
A new high-resolution multi-drought-index dataset for mainland China18
CAMELS-DE: hydro-meteorological time series and attributes for 1582 catchments in Germany18
A global monthly 3D field of seawater pH over 3 decades: a machine learning approach18
IPB-MSA&SO4: a daily 0.25° resolution dataset of in situ-produced biogenic methanesulfonic acid and sulfate over the North Atlantic during 1998–2022 based on machine learning18
The Coastal Surveillance Through Observation of Ocean Color (COASTℓOOC) dataset18
Land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets18
Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)18
Reference maps of soil phosphorus for the pan-Amazon region18
Artemisia pollen dataset for exploring the potential ecological indicators in deep time18
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