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Earth System Science Data

Volume 18, 2026

Volumes and issues
Volumes and issues

Volume 18, 2026

05 Jan 2026
Seismicity catalogue of the entire Chilean margin (18 to 56° S) from an automated approach
Martin Riedel-Hornig, Christian Sippl, Andrés Tassara, Sergio Ruiz, Bertrand Potin, and Jorge Puente
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1–16, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1-2026, 2026
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05 Jan 2026
Evaluation of annual maximum snow depth data estimation from the European-wide reanalysis C3S MTMSI (Copernicus Climate Change Service – Mountain Tourism Meteorological and Snow Indicators) against in-situ observations
Elisa Kamir, Samuel Morin, Guillaume Evin, Penelope Gehring, Bodo Wichura, and Ali Nadir Arslan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 17–32, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-17-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-17-2026, 2026
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05 Jan 2026
A full year of continuous net soil and ditch CO2, CH4, N2O fluxes, soil hydrology and meteorology for a drained fen in Denmark
Annelie S. Nielsen, Klaus S. Larsen, Poul Erik Lærke, Andres F. Rodriguez, Johannes W. M. Pullens, Rasmus J. Petersen, and Jesper R. Christiansen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 33–53, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-33-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-33-2026, 2026
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05 Jan 2026
Development of the long-term harmonized multi-satellite SIF (LHSIF) dataset at 0.05° resolution (1995–2024)
Chu Zou, Shanshan Du, Xinjie Liu, and Liangyun Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 55–75, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-55-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-55-2026, 2026
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05 Jan 2026
GEMS-GER: a machine learning benchmark dataset of long-term groundwater levels in Germany with meteorological forcings and site-specific environmental features
Marc Ohmer, Tanja Liesch, Bastian Habbel, Benedikt Heudorfer, Mariana Gomez, Patrick Clos, Maximilian Nölscher, and Stefan Broda
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 77–95, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-77-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-77-2026, 2026
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06 Jan 2026
Spatially adaptive estimation of multi-layer soil temperature at a daily time-step across China during 2010–2020
Xuetong Wang, Liang He, Peng Li, Jiageng Ma, Yu Shi, Qi Tian, Gang Zhao, Jianqiang He, Hao Feng, Hao Shi, and Qiang Yu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 97–116, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-97-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-97-2026, 2026
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06 Jan 2026
The German Small Lake and Pond Inventory
Alexander Wachholz, Susanne I. Schmidt, Jens Arle, and Jeanette Völker
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 117–129, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-117-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-117-2026, 2026
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06 Jan 2026
A global dataset of soil organic carbon mineralization in response to incubation temperature changes
Shuai Zhang, Mingming Wang, Jinyang Zheng, and Zhongkui Luo
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 131–146, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-131-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-131-2026, 2026
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06 Jan 2026
A six-year circum-Antarctic icebergs dataset (2018–2023)
Zilong Chen, Xuying Liu, Zhenfu Guan, Teng Li, Xiao Cheng, Tian Li, Yan Liu, Qi Liang, Lei Zheng, and Jiping Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 147–166, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-147-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-147-2026, 2026
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07 Jan 2026
An inter-comparison of inverse models for estimating European CH4 emissions
Eleftherios Ioannidis, Antoon Meesters, Michael Steiner, Dominik Brunner, Friedemann Reum, Isabelle Pison, Antoine Berchet, Rona Thompson, Espen Sollum, Frank-Thomas Koch, Christoph Gerbig, Fenjuan Wang, Shamil Maksyutov, Aki Tsuruta, Maria Tenkanen, Tuula Aalto, Guillaume Monteil, Hong Lin, Ge Ren, Marko Scholze, and Sander Houweling
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 167–198, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-167-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-167-2026, 2026
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07 Jan 2026
Towards Bedmap Himalayas: a new airborne glacier thickness survey in Khumbu Himal, Nepal
Hamish D. Pritchard, Edward C. King, David J. Goodger, Douglas Boyle, Daniel N. Goldberg, Beatriz Recinos, Andrew Orr, and Dhananjay Regmi
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 199–217, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-199-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-199-2026, 2026
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08 Jan 2026
Austrian NIR soil spectral library for soil health assessments
Julia Fohrafellner, Maximilian Lippl, Armin Bajraktarevic, Andreas Baumgarten, Heide Spiegel, Robert Körner, and Taru Sandén
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 219–229, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-219-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-219-2026, 2026
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09 Jan 2026
Improved land mask for satellite remote sensing of oceans and inland waters
Karlis Mikelsons and Menghua Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 231–244, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-231-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-231-2026, 2026
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09 Jan 2026
The Global Spectra-Trait Initiative: A database of paired leaf spectroscopy and functional traits associated with leaf photosynthetic capacity
Julien Lamour, Shawn P. Serbin, Alistair Rogers, Kelvin T. Acebron, Elizabeth Ainsworth, Loren P. Albert, Michael Alonzo, Jeremiah Anderson, Owen K. Atkin, Nicolas Barbier, Mallory L. Barnes, Carl J. Bernacchi, Ninon Besson, Angela C. Burnett, Joshua S. Caplan, Jérôme Chave, Alexander W. Cheesman, Ilona Clocher, Onoriode Coast, Sabrina Coste, Holly Croft, Boya Cui, Clément Dauvissat, Kenneth J. Davidson, Christopher Doughty, Kim S. Ely, John R. Evans, Jean-Baptiste Féret, Iolanda Filella, Claire Fortunel, Peng Fu, Robert T. Furbank, Maquelle Garcia, Bruno O. Gimenez, Kaiyu Guan, Zhengfei Guo, David Heckmann, Patrick Heuret, Marney Isaac, Shan Kothari, Etsushi Kumagai, Thu Ya Kyaw, Liangyun Liu, Lingli Liu, Shuwen Liu, Joan Llusià, Troy Magney, Isabelle Maréchaux, Adam R. Martin, Katherine Meacham-Hensold, Christopher M. Montes, Romà Ogaya, Joy Ojo, Regison Oliveira, Alain Paquette, Josep Peñuelas, Antonia Debora Placido, Juan M. Posada, Xiaojin Qian, Heidi J. Renninger, Milagros Rodriguez-Caton, Andrés Rojas-González, Urte Schlüter, Giacomo Sellan, Courtney M. Siegert, Viridiana Silva-Perez, Guangqin Song, Charles D. Southwick, Daisy C. Souza, Clément Stahl, Yanjun Su, Leeladarshini Sujeeun, To-Chia Ting, Vicente Vasquez, Amrutha Vijayakumar, Marcelo Vilas-Boas, Diane R. Wang, Sheng Wang, Han Wang, Jing Wang, Xin Wang, Andreas P. M. Weber, Christopher Y. S. Wong, Jin Wu, Fengqi Wu, Shengbiao Wu, Zhengbing Yan, Dedi Yang, and Yingyi Zhao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 245–265, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-245-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-245-2026, 2026
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12 Jan 2026
The first road surface type dataset for 50 African countries and regions
Zixian Liu, Qi Zhou, Fayong Zhang, and Prosper Basommi Laari
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 267–285, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-267-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-267-2026, 2026
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12 Jan 2026
A novel global gridded ocean oxygen product derived from a neural network emulator and in-situ observations
Said Ouala, Oussama Hidaoui, and Zouhair Lachkar
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 287–308, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-287-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-287-2026, 2026
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13 Jan 2026
Global near real-time 500 m 10 d FPAR dataset from MODIS and VIIRS for operational agricultural monitoring and crop yield forecasting
Lorenzo Seguini, Anja Klisch, Michele Meroni, Anton Vrieling, Giacinto Manfron, Clement Atzberger, and Felix Rembold
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 309–331, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-309-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-309-2026, 2026
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13 Jan 2026
Long-term sea surface temperature time series from Malin Head, Ireland
Sarah Daves, Guy Westbrook, Glenn Nolan, Rob Thomas, and Eoghan Daly
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 333–344, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-333-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-333-2026, 2026
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14 Jan 2026
A comprehensive rock glacier inventory for the Peruvian Andes (PRoGI): dataset, characterization and topoclimatic attributes
Katy Medina, Hairo León, Edwin Badillo-Rivera, Edwin Loarte, Xavier Bodín, and José Úbeda
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 345–369, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-345-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-345-2026, 2026
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14 Jan 2026
An hourly 0.02° total precipitable water dataset for all-weather conditions over the Tibetan Plateau through the fusion of observations of geostationary and multi-source microwave satellites
Qixiang Sun, Husi Letu, Yongqian Wang, Peng Zhang, Hong Liang, Chong Shi, Shuai Yin, Jiancheng Shi, and Dabin Ji
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 371–395, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-371-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-371-2026, 2026
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15 Jan 2026
Subsets of geostationary satellite data over international observing network sites for studying the diurnal dynamics of energy, carbon, and water cycles
Hirofumi Hashimoto, Weile Wang, Taejin Park, Sepideh Khajehei, Kazuhito Ichii, Andrew R. Michaelis, Alberto Guzman, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Margaret S. Torn, Koong Yi, and Ian G. Brosnan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 397–410, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-397-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-397-2026, 2026
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15 Jan 2026
PROMICE-2022 ice mask: a high-resolution outline of the Greenland Ice Sheet from August 2022
Gregor Luetzenburg, Niels Jakup Korsgaard, Anna Kirk Deichmann, Tobias Socher, Karin Gleie, Thomas Scharffenberger, Dominik Fahrner, Eva Bendix Nielsen, Penelope How, Anders Anker Bjørk, Kristian Kjellerup Kjeldsen, Andreas Peter Ahlstrøm, and Robert Schjøtt Fausto
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 411–427, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-411-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-411-2026, 2026
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15 Jan 2026
Remapping carbon storage change in retired farmlands on the Loess Plateau in China from 2000–2021 in high spatiotemporal resolution
Bingqian Guo, Mingjie Fang, Leilei Yang, Tao Guo, Chuang Ma, Xiangyun Hu, Zhaoxiang Guo, Zemeng Ma, Qiang Li, Zhaoli Wang, and Weiguo Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 429–441, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-429-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-429-2026, 2026
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16 Jan 2026
Energy-conservation datasets of global land surface radiation and heat fluxes from 2000–2020 generated by CoSEB
Junrui Wang, Ronglin Tang, Meng Liu, and Zhao-Liang Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 443–463, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-443-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-443-2026, 2026
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19 Jan 2026
CN_Wheat10: a 10 m resolution dataset of spring and winter wheat distribution in China (2018–2024) derived from time-series remote sensing
Man Liu, Wei He, and Hongyan Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 465–491, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-465-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-465-2026, 2026
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19 Jan 2026
Mapping and spatial distribution of relict charcoal hearths across Poland
Michał Słowiński, Agnieszka Halaś, Michał A. Niedzielski, Krzysztof Szewczyk, Jerzy Jonczak, Dominika Łuców, Sebastian Tyszkowski, Sandra Słowińska, Agnieszka Gruszczyńska, Bogusława Kruczkowska, Aleksandra Chojnacka, Tomasz Polkowski, Krzysztof Sztabkowski, Dariusz Brykała, Jacek Wolski, Tomasz Samojlik, Adrian Kaszkiel, Barbara Gmińska-Nowak, Mateusz Kramkowski, and Tomasz Związek
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 493–506, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-493-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-493-2026, 2026
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21 Jan 2026
A global black carbon dataset of column concentration and microphysical information derived from MISR multi-band observations and Mie scattering simulations
Zhewen Liu, Jason B. Cohen, Pravash Tiwari, Luoyao Guan, Shuo Wang, Zhengqiang Li, and Kai Qin
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 507–533, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-507-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-507-2026, 2026
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21 Jan 2026
A satellite-based ice fraction record for small water bodies of the Arctic Coastal Plain (2017 to 2023)
Hong Lin, Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Xiao Cheng, J. Patrick Donnelly, Jennifer D. Watts, and Annett Bartsch
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 535–549, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-535-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-535-2026, 2026
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21 Jan 2026
Normalized difference vegetation index maps of pure pixels over China for estimation of fractional vegetation cover
Tian Zhao, Wanjuan Song, Xihan Mu, Yun Xie, Yuanyuan Wang, Hangqi Ren, Donghui Xie, and Guangjian Yan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 551–568, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-551-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-551-2026, 2026
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21 Jan 2026
Decadal and spatially complete global surface chlorophyll-a data record from satellite and BGC-Argo observations
Daniel J. Ford, Gemma Kulk, Shubha Sathyendranath, and Jamie D. Shutler
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 569–584, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-569-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-569-2026, 2026
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22 Jan 2026
A unified 3D geological model for Germany and adjacent areas
Steffen Ahlers and Andreas Henk
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 585–596, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-585-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-585-2026, 2026
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23 Jan 2026
Digital Elevation Models and Orthomosaics of 1989 aerial imagery of the Western Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding islands between 66–68° S
Vijaya Kumar Thota, Thorsten Seehaus, Friedrich Knuth, Amaury Dehecq, Christian Salewski, David Farías-Barahona, and Matthias H. Braun
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 597–615, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-597-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-597-2026, 2026
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23 Jan 2026
Multi-year observations of BVOCs and ozone: concentrations and fluxes measured above and below the canopy in a mixed temperate forest
Clément Dumont, Bert Willem Diane Verreyken, Niels Schoon, Benjamin Bergmans, Bernard Heinesch, and Crist Amelynck
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 617–654, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-617-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-617-2026, 2026
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26 Jan 2026
Spatiotemporal mapping of invasive yellow sweetclover blooms using Sentinel-2 and high-resolution drone imagery
Sakshi Saraf, Ranjeet John, Venkatesh Kolluru, Khushboo Jain, Geoffrey M. Henebry, Jiquan Chen, and Raffaele Lafortezza
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 655–674, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-655-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-655-2026, 2026
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27 Jan 2026
The global Deep-time Sediment Nitrogen Isotopes in Marine Systems (DSMS-NI) database
Yong Du, Huyue Song, Thomas J. Algeo, Hui Zhang, Jianwei Peng, Yuyang Wu, Jiankang Lai, Xiang Shu, Hanchen Song, Lai Wei, Jincheng Zhang, Eva E. Stüeken, Stephen E. Grasby, Jacopo Dal Corso, Xiaokang Liu, Daoliang Chu, Li Tian, Qingzhong Liang, Xinchuan Li, Hong Yao, and Haijun Song
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 675–690, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-675-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-675-2026, 2026
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28 Jan 2026
QUADICA v2: extending the large-sample data set for water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes in Germany
Pia Ebeling, Alexander Hubig, Alexander Wachholz, Ulrike Scharfenberger, Sarah Haug, Tam Nguyen, Fanny Sarrazin, Masooma Batool, Andreas Musolff, and Rohini Kumar
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 691–712, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-691-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-691-2026, 2026
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30 Jan 2026
SEEPS4ALL: an open dataset for the verification of daily precipitation forecasts using station climate statistics
Zied Ben-Bouallègue, Ana Prieto-Nemesio, Angela Iza Wong, Florian Pinault, Marlies van der Schee, and Umberto Modigliani
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 713–720, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-713-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-713-2026, 2026
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30 Jan 2026
A climate data record of sea ice age using Lagrangian advection of a triangular mesh
Anton Korosov, Léo Edel, Heather Regan, Thomas Lavergne, Signe Aaboe, and Emily Jane Down
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 721–740, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-721-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-721-2026, 2026
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02 Feb 2026
Long-wavelength steric sea level and heat storage anomaly maps to 2000 m by combining Argo temperature and salinity profiles with satellite altimetry and gravimetry
Don P. Chambers and Sara J. Reinelt
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 741–757, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-741-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-741-2026, 2026
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02 Feb 2026
A 1 km soil organic carbon density dataset with depth of 20 and 100 cm from 1985 to 2020 in China
Yi Dong, Xinting Wang, and Wei Su
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 759–777, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-759-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-759-2026, 2026
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02 Feb 2026
Origins, evolutions, and future directions of Landsat science products for advancing global inland water and coastal ocean observations
Benjamin Page, Christopher J. Crawford, Saeed Arab, Gail Schmidt, Christopher Barnes, and Danika Wellington
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 779–800, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-779-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-779-2026, 2026
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02 Feb 2026
Two decades of pHT measurements along the GO-SHIP A25 section in the North Atlantic
Fiz F. Pérez, Marta López-Mozos, Marcos Fontela, Maribel I. García-Ibáñez, Noelia Fajar, Xosé Antonio Padín, Mónica Castaño-Carrera, Mercedes de la Paz, Lidia I. Carracedo, Marta Álvarez, Herlé Mercier, Pascale Lherminier, and Antón Velo
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 801–821, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-801-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-801-2026, 2026
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03 Feb 2026
The INFLUX network – eddy covariance in and around an urban environment
Jason P. Horne, Scott J. Richardson, Samantha L. Murphy, Helen C. Kenion, Bernd J. Haupt, Benjamin J. Ahlswede, Natasha L. Miles, and Kenneth J. Davis
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 823–843, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-823-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-823-2026, 2026
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03 Feb 2026
A multiyear eddy covariance and meteorological dataset from five pairs of agroforestry systems with open cropland or grassland in Northern Germany
José Ángel Callejas-Rodelas, Justus van Ramshorst, Alexander Knohl, Lukas Siebicke, Dietmar Fellert, Marek Peksa, Dirk Böttger, and Christian Markwitz
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 845–874, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-845-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-845-2026, 2026
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03 Feb 2026
Annual carbon emissions from land-use change in China from 1000 to 2019
Fan Yang, Guanpeng Dong, Xiaoyu Meng, Richard A. Houghton, Yang Gao, Fanneng He, Meijiao Li, Wenjin Li, Bing Li, Zhihao Liu, Qinqin Mao, Pengfei Wu, Yuanzhi Yao, Xudong Zhai, Hongjuan Zhang, and Chao Yue
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 875–902, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-875-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-875-2026, 2026
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04 Feb 2026
A lake salinity dataset produced via microwave and optical imageries
Mingming Deng, Ronghua Ma, Lixin Wang, Minqi Hu, Kun Xue, and Junfeng Xiong
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 903–925, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-903-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-903-2026, 2026
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05 Feb 2026
High spatiotemporal resolution traffic CO2 emission maps derived from Floating Car Data (FCD) for 20 European cities (2023)
Qinren Shi, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Megel, Xavier Bonnemaizon, Rohith Teja Mittakola, Richard Engelen, and Chuanlong Zhou
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 927–944, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-927-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-927-2026, 2026
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05 Feb 2026
Benchmark of plankton images classification: emphasizing features extraction over classifier complexity
Thelma Panaïotis, Emma Amblard, Guillaume Boniface-Chang, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, Benjamin Woodward, and Jean-Olivier Irisson
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 945–967, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-945-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-945-2026, 2026
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05 Feb 2026
UEx-L-Eddies: decadal and global long-lived mesoscale eddy trajectories with coincident air–sea CO2 fluxes and environmental conditions
Daniel J. Ford, Jamie D. Shutler, Katy L. Sheen, Gavin H. Tilstone, and Vassilis Kitidis
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 969–988, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-969-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-969-2026, 2026
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06 Feb 2026
OpenLandMap-soildb: global soil information at 30 m spatial resolution for 2000–2022+ based on spatiotemporal Machine Learning and harmonized legacy soil samples and observations
Tomislav Hengl, Davide Consoli, Xuemeng Tian, Travis W. Nauman, Madlene Nussbaum, Mustafa Serkan Isik, Leandro Parente, Yu-Feng Ho, Rolf Simoes, Surya Gupta, Alessandro Samuel-Rosa, Taciara Zborowski Horst, José L. Safanelli, and Nancy Harris
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 989–1036, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-989-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-989-2026, 2026
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06 Feb 2026
GVCCS: a dataset for contrail identification and tracking on visible whole sky camera sequences
Gabriel Jarry, Ramon Dalmau, Philippe Very, Franck Ballerini, and Stefania-Denisa Bocu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1037–1059, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1037-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1037-2026, 2026
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10 Feb 2026
Fusing ERA5-Land and SMAP L4 for an improved global soil moisture product (1950–2025)
Wenhong Wang, Shiao Feng, Yonggen Zhang, Zhongwang Wei, Jianzhi Dong, Lutz Weihermüller, Cong-Qiang Liu, and Harry Vereecken
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1061–1088, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1061-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1061-2026, 2026
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10 Feb 2026
Integrating Global Ocean Profiles and Altimetry-Derived Eddies
Iury Simoes-Sousa, Cesar Rocha, Amit Tandon, and Andre Schmidt
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1089–1101, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1089-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1089-2026, 2026
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10 Feb 2026
1 km annual forest cover and plant functional type dataset for China from 1981 to 2023
Bo Liu, Boyan Li, Fulai Feng, Yangcan Bao, Jing Li, and Qi Feng
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1103–1129, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1103-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1103-2026, 2026
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10 Feb 2026
The countrywide historical gravity dataset of Lithuanian territory
Dominykas Šlikas, Eimuntas Paršeliūnas, Rosita Birvydienė, and Romuald Obuchovski
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1131–1146, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1131-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1131-2026, 2026
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10 Feb 2026
Quantifying the spatial-seasonal patterns of land–atmosphere water, heat and CO2 flux exchange over the Tibetan Plateau from an observational perspective
Binbin Wang, Yaoming Ma, Zeyong Hu, Xuan Li, Weiqiang Ma, Xuelong Chen, Cunbo Han, Zhipeng Xie, Yuyang Wang, Maoshan Li, Bin Ma, Xingdong Shi, Weimo Li, and Zhengling Cai
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1147–1164, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1147-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1147-2026, 2026
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11 Feb 2026
High-resolution atmospheric data cubes from the WegenerNet 3D Open-Air Laboratory for Climate Change Research
Andreas Kvas, Gottfried Kirchengast, and Jürgen Fuchsberger
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1165–1184, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1165-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1165-2026, 2026
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11 Feb 2026
A database of databases for Common Era paleoclimate applications
Michael N. Evans, Lucie J. Lücke, Kevin J. Fan, and Feng Zhu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1185–1202, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1185-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1185-2026, 2026
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12 Feb 2026
The newly developed Multi-ensemble Biomass-burning Emissions Inventory (MBEI): characterizing and unraveling spatiotemporal uncertainty in global biomass burning emissions
Xinlu Liu, Zhongyi Sun, Chong Shi, Peng Wang, Tangzhe Nie, Qingnan Chu, Huazhe Shang, Lu Sun, Dabin Ji, Meng Guo, Kunpeng Yi, Zhenghong Tan, Lan Wu, Xinchun Lu, and Shuai Yin
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1203–1224, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1203-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1203-2026, 2026
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16 Feb 2026
A complete database of AMS radiocarbon estimates from Lake Baikal sediment cores with a lake-wide assessment of TOC age offsets
Samuel R. S. Newall, Anson W. Mackay, Natalia Piotrowska, and Maarten Blaauw
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1225–1242, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1225-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1225-2026, 2026
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16 Feb 2026
ForestScan: a unique multiscale dataset of tropical forest structure across 3 continents including terrestrial, UAV and airborne LiDAR and in-situ forest census data
Cecilia Chavana-Bryant, Phil Wilkes, Wanxin Yang, Andrew Burt, Peter Vines, Amy C. Bennett, Georgia C. Pickavance, Declan L. M. Cooper, Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips, Benjamin Brede, Alvaro Lau, Martin Herold, Iain M. McNicol, Edward T. A. Mitchard, David A. Coomes, Toby D. Jackson, Löic Makaga, Heddy O. Milamizokou Napo, Alfred Ngomanda, Stephan Ntie, Vincent Medjibe, Pacôme Dimbonda, Luna Soenens, Virginie Daelemans, Laetitia Proux, Reuben Nilus, Nicolas Labrière, Kathryn Jeffery, David F. R. P. Burslem, Dan Clewley, David Moffat, Lan Qie, Harm Bartholomeus, Gregoire Vincent, Nicolas Barbier, Geraldine Derroire, Katharine Abernethy, Klaus Scipal, and Mathias Disney
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1243–1274, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1243-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1243-2026, 2026
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19 Feb 2026
Soil surface change data of high spatio-temporal resolution from the plot to the catchment scale
Lea Epple, Oliver Grothum, Anne Bienert, and Anette Eltner
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1275–1286, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1275-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1275-2026, 2026
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19 Feb 2026
FYAI: a Fengyun satellite-based dataset for atmospheric ice water path
Yifan Yang, Tingfeng Dou, Gaojie Xu, Rui Zhou, Bo Li, Letu Husi, Wenyu Wang, and Cunde Xiao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1287–1305, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1287-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1287-2026, 2026
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19 Feb 2026
Optical complexity of North Sea, Baltic Sea, and adjacent coastal and inland waters derived from Sentinel-3 OLCI satellite data
Martin Hieronymi, Daniel Behr, Shun Bi, and Rüdiger Röttgers
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1307–1329, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1307-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1307-2026, 2026
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19 Feb 2026
GFC2020: a global map of forest land use for year 2020 to support the EU Deforestation Regulation
Clément Bourgoin, Astrid Verhegghen, Silvia Carboni, Iban Ameztoy, Lucas Degreve, Steffen Fritz, Martin Herold, Nandika Tsendbazar, Myroslava Lesiv, Frédéric Achard, and René Colditz
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1331–1365, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1331-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1331-2026, 2026
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23 Feb 2026
A gridded (0.1°  ×  0.1°) methane emission dataset for India for 2023 to redefine global climate studies
Ashirbad Mishra, Poonam Mangaraj, Pallavi Sahoo, Gufran Beig, Rajesh Janardanan, and Saroj Kumar Sahu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1367–1378, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1367-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1367-2026, 2026
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24 Feb 2026
GlobalGeoTree: a multi-granular vision-language dataset for global tree species classification
Yang Mu, Zhitong Xiong, Yi Wang, Muhammad Shahzad, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Mark van Kleunen, and Xiao Xiang Zhu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1379–1403, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1379-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1379-2026, 2026
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24 Feb 2026
Synthesis of data products for ocean carbonate chemistry
Li-Qing Jiang, Amanda Fay, Jens Daniel Müller, Luke Gregor, Alizée Roobaert, Lydia Keppler, Dustin Carroll, Siv K. Lauvset, Tim DeVries, Judith Hauck, Christian Rödenbeck, Nicolas Metzl, Andrea J. Fassbender, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Peter Landschützer, Rik Wanninkhof, Christopher Sabine, Simone R. Alin, Mario Hoppema, Are Olsen, Matthew P. Humphreys, Kunal Chakraborty, Ana C. Franco, Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Leticia Barbero, Nicholas R. Bates, Nicole Besemer, Henry C. Bittig, Albert E. Boyd, Daniel Broullón, Wei-Jun Cai, Brendan R. Carter, Thi-Tuyet-Trang Chau, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Frédéric Cyr, John E. Dore, Ian Enochs, Richard A. Feely, Hernan E. Garcia, Marion Gehlen, Prasanna Kanti Ghoshal, Lucas Gloege, Melchor González-Dávila, Nicolas Gruber, Debby Ianson, Yosuke Iida, Masao Ishii, Apurva Padamnabh Joshi, Esther Kennedy, Alex Kozyr, Nico Lange, Claire Lo Monaco, Derek P. Manzello, Galen A. McKinley, Natalie M. Monacci, Xose A. Padin, Ana M. Palacio-Castro, Fiz F. Pérez, J. Magdalena Santana-Casiano, Jonathan Sharp, Adrienne Sutton, Jim Swift, Toste Tanhua, Maciej Telszewski, Jens Terhaar, Ruben van Hooidonk, Anton Velo, Andrew J. Watson, Angelicque E. White, Zelun Wu, Liang Xue, Hyelim Yoo, Jiye Zeng, and Guorong Zhong
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1405–1462, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1405-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1405-2026, 2026
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25 Feb 2026
More than a century of oceanic hydrography observations reveals profound climate-related changes in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and its Arctic Gateways
Jonathan Coyne, Frédéric Cyr, Sheila Atchison, Charlie Bishop, Sébastien Donnet, Peter S. Galbraith, Maxime Geoffroy, David Hebert, Chantelle Layton, Andry Ratsimandresy, Jose-Luis del Rio Iglesias, Jean-Luc Shaw, Stephen Snook, Nancy Soontiens, Elena Tel, and Wojciech Walkusz
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1463–1488, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1463-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1463-2026, 2026
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26 Feb 2026
Seasonal patterns and diagnostic values of δ2H, δ18O, d-excess, and Δ′17O in precipitation over Seoul, South Korea (2016–2020)
Songyi Kim, Yeongcheol Han, Hyejung Jung, and Jeonghoon Lee
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1489–1501, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1489-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1489-2026, 2026
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26 Feb 2026
Rapidly changing lake-terminating glaciers in High Mountain Asia: a dataset from 1990 to 2022
Yunyi Luo, Qiao Liu, Xueyuan Lu, Yongsheng Yin, Jiawei Yang, and Xuyang Lu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1503–1518, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1503-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1503-2026, 2026
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27 Feb 2026
A 30 m spatial resolution dataset of ecosystem services in China for 2000, 2010, and 2020
Yue Liu, Wenwu Zhao, Zhijie Zhang, Jingyi Ding, and Lixin Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1519–1540, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1519-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1519-2026, 2026
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27 Feb 2026
Environment90m – globally standardized environmental variables for freshwater science at high spatial resolution
Jaime R. García-Márquez, Afroditi Grigoropoulou, Thomas Tomiczek, Marlene Schürz, Vanessa Bremerich, Yusdiel Torres-Cambas, Merret Buurman, Kristi Bego, Giuseppe Amatulli, and Sami Domisch
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1541–1559, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1541-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1541-2026, 2026
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27 Feb 2026
Mapping key soil micronutrients across the Tibetan Plateau
Huangyu Huo, Xiling Gu, Jiayi Li, Shanshan Yang, Yafeng Wang, and Jinzhi Ding
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1561–1574, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1561-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1561-2026, 2026
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02 Mar 2026
Continuous meteorological surface and soil records (2004–2024) at the Met Office surface site of Cardington, UK
Simon R. Osborne, Jennifer K. Brooke, Bernard M. Claxton, Tony Jones, Amanda M. Kerr-Munslow, James R. McGregor, Emily G. Norton, Nicola Phillips, Martyn A. Pickering, Jeremy D. Price, Jenna Thornton, and Graham P. Weedon
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1575–1599, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1575-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1575-2026, 2026
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02 Mar 2026
Global high-resolution forest disturbance type dataset
Li Wang, Shidong Liu, Wanjuan Song, Shengping Ding, and Jie Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1601–1617, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1601-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1601-2026, 2026
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02 Mar 2026
The ELK global emission inventory for the transport sectors
Mattia Righi, Simone Ehrenberger, Sabine Brinkop, Johannes Hendricks, Jens Hellekes, Paweł Banyś, Isheeka Dasgupta, Patrick Draheim, Annika Fitz, Manuel Löber, Thomas Pregger, Yvonne Scholz, Angelika Schulz, Birgit Suhr, Nina Thomsen, Christian Martin Weder, Peter Berster, Maximilian Clococeanu, Marc Gelhausen, Alexander Lau, Florian Linke, Sigrun Matthes, and Zarah Lea Zengerling
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1619–1664, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1619-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1619-2026, 2026
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03 Mar 2026
Global mapping of lake-terminating glaciers
Jakob Steiner, William Armstrong, Will Kochtitzky, Robert McNabb, Rodrigo Aguayo, Tobias Bolch, Fabien Maussion, Vibhor Agarwal, Iestyn Barr, Nathaniel R. Baurley, Mike Cloutier, Katelyn DeWater, Frank Donachie, Yoann Drocourt, Siddhi Garg, Gunjan Joshi, Byron Guzman, Stanislav Kutuzov, Thomas Loriaux, Caleb Mathias, Brian Menounos, Evan Miles, Aleksandra Osika, Kaleigh Potter, Adina Racoviteanu, Brianna Rick, Miles Sterner, Guy D. Tallentire, Levan Tielidze, Rebecca White, Kunpeng Wu, and Whyjay Zheng
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1665–1681, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1665-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1665-2026, 2026
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04 Mar 2026
A 1 km hourly high-resolution 3D wind field dataset over the Yangtze River Delta incorporating dynamical downscaling, observational assimilation, and land use updates
Zhengyan Zhang, Yan-An Liu, Xinjian Ma, Zhenglong Li, Pengbo Xu, Juan Zhang, Min Min, Di Di, Bo Li, and Jun Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1683–1701, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1683-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1683-2026, 2026
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05 Mar 2026
The Potsdam Soil Moisture Observatory: high-coverage reference observations at kilometer scale
Peter M. Grosse, Elodie Marret, Lena Scheiffele, Katya Dimitrova Petrova, Till Francke, Daniel Altdorff, Maik Heistermann, Merlin Schiel, Carsten Neumann, Daniel Scheffler, Mehdi Saberioon, Matthias Kunz, Jonas Marach, Marcel Reginatto, Miroslav Zboril, Anna Balenzano, Daniel Rasche, Christine Stumpp, Benjamin Trost, and Sascha E. Oswald
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1703–1727, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1703-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1703-2026, 2026
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05 Mar 2026
Elevation change of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its peripheral glaciers: 1992–2023
Johan Nilsson and Alex S. Gardner
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1729–1745, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1729-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1729-2026, 2026
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09 Mar 2026
Multidecadal reconstruction of terrestrial water storage changes by combining pre-GRACE satellite observations and climate data
Charlotte Hacker, Benjamin D. Gutknecht, Anno Löcher, and Jürgen Kusche
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1747–1781, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1747-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1747-2026, 2026
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10 Mar 2026
Reconstructing nineteenth-century Danube river water levels with transformer-based computer vision
Malte Rehbein
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1783–1811, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1783-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1783-2026, 2026
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10 Mar 2026
All-day global cloud physical properties products with 0.07° resolution retrieved from geostationary satellite imagers covering the period from 2000 to 2022
Lingxiao Zhao, Feng Zhang, Zhijun Zhao, Feng Lu, Jingwei Li, Bin Guo, and Wenwen Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1813–1832, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1813-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1813-2026, 2026
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11 Mar 2026
RAPSODI: radiosonde atmospheric profiles from ship and island platforms during ORCESTRA, collected to Decipher the ITCZ
Marius Winkler, Marius Rixen, Florent Beucher, Fleur Couvreux, Chaehyeon C. Nam, Philippe Peyrillé, Hauke Schmidt, Hans Segura, Karl-Hermann Wieners, Ezri Alkilani-Brown, Abdou Aziz Coly, Giovanni Biagioli, Michael M. Bell, Ester Brito, Emma Chauvin, Julie Capo, Delián Colón-Burgos, Akeem Dawes, Jose Carlos da Luz, Zekican Demiralay, Vincent Douet, Vincent Ducastin, Clarisse Dufaux, Jean-Louis Dufresne, Florence Favot, Thomas Fiolleau, Emilie Fons, Geet George, Helene M. Gloeckner, Suelly Gonçalves, Laurent Gouttesoulard, Lennéa Hayo, Wei-Ting Hsiao, Sarah Kennison, Michael Kopelman, Tsung-Yung Lee, Enora Le Gall, Mateo Lovato, Emily Luschen, Nicolas Maury, Brett McKim, Louis Netz, Diouf Ousseynou, Karsten Peters-von Gehlen, Chavez Pope, Basile Poujol, Niwde Rivera Maldonado, Nina Robbins-Blanch, Nicolas Rochetin, Daniel Rowe, Paula Romero Jure, James H. Ruppert Jr., Jairo Segura Bermudez, Jarrett C. Starr, Martin Stelzner, Connor Stoll, Macintyre Syrett, Abraham Tekoe, Jeremie Trules, Colin Welty, Daniel Klocke, Raphaela Vogel, Sandrine Bony, Allison A. Wing, and Bjorn Stevens
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1833–1854, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1833-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1833-2026, 2026
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11 Mar 2026
GRAIN – a Global Registry of Agricultural Irrigation Networks
Sarath Suresh, Faisal Hossain, Vimal Mishra, and Nehan Hossain
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1855–1875, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1855-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1855-2026, 2026
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11 Mar 2026
Phytoplankton coastal-offshore monitoring by the Strait of Dover at high spatial resolution: the DYPHYRAD surveys
Zéline Hubert, Aurélie Libeau, Clémentine Gallot, Vincent Cornille, Muriel Crouvoisier, Éric Lécuyer, and Luis Felipe Artigas
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1877–1903, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1877-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1877-2026, 2026
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12 Mar 2026
A new method for estimating atmospheric turbulence from global high-resolution radiosonde data and comparison with the Thorpe method
Han-Chang Ko and Hye-Yeong Chun
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1905–1920, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1905-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1905-2026, 2026
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12 Mar 2026
The PAGES CoralHydro2k Seawater δ18O Database: a FAIR-aligned compilation of seawater δ18O data to uncover “hidden” insights from the global ocean
Alyssa R. Atwood, Andrea L. Moore, Kristine L. DeLong, Sylvia E. Long, Sara C. Sanchez, Jessica A. Hargreaves, Chandler A. Morris, Raquel E. Pauly, Émilie P. Dassié, Thomas Felis, Antje H. L. Voelker, Sujata A. Murty, and Kim M. Cobb
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1921–1941, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1921-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1921-2026, 2026
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16 Mar 2026
A new magnetic anomaly map for Greenland based on a combination of equivalent source modeling and spherical harmonic expansion
Björn H. Heincke, Wolfgang Szwillus, Judith Freienstein, Jörg Ebbing, Carmen Gaina, Antonia Ruppel, Yixiati Dilixiati, and Agnes Wansing
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1943–1967, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1943-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1943-2026, 2026
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17 Mar 2026
The ISLAS2020 field campaign: studying the near-surface exchange process of stable water isotopes during the arctic wintertime
Andrew W. Seidl, Aina Johannessen, Alena Dekhtyareva, Jannis M. Huss, Marius O. Jonassen, Alexander Schulz, Ove Hermansen, Christoph K. Thomas, and Harald Sodemann
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1969–1993, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1969-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1969-2026, 2026
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17 Mar 2026
ChinaAI-FSC: a comprehensive AI-ready MODIS fractional snow cover dataset for China (2000–2022)
Jinliang Hou, Mingkai Zhang, Xiaohua Hao, Jifu Guo, Peng Dou, Ying Zhang, and Chunlin Huang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1995–2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1995-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1995-2026, 2026
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17 Mar 2026
The Loobos ecosystem first tower dataset: meteorology, turbulent fluxes and net ecosystem exchange (1996 to 2021)
Hong Zhao, Han Dolman, Jan Elbers, Wilma Jans, Bart Kruijt, Eddy Moors, Henk Snellen, Jordi Vila-Guerau de Arellano, Wouter Peters, Maarten C. Krol, Ronald Hutjes, and Michiel van der Molen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2023–2045, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2023-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2023-2026, 2026
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20 Mar 2026
StageIV-IRC: a high-resolution dataset of extreme orographic Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPE) constrained to water budget closure for historical floods in the Appalachian Mountains
Mochi Liao and Ana P. Barros
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2047–2074, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2047-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2047-2026, 2026
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23 Mar 2026
Airborne laser scanning transects over Canada's northern forests: lidar plots for science and application
Christopher W. Bater, Joanne C. White, Hao Chen, Piotr Tompalski, Txomin Hermosilla, and Michael A. Wulder
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2075–2091, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2075-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2075-2026, 2026
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23 Mar 2026
Spatial and morphometric analysis of a comprehensive dataset of loess sinkholes from a small basin in the Chinese Loess Plateau
Sheng Hu, Francisco Gutiérrez, Fanyu Zhang, Sisi Li, Ninglian Wang, Xi-an Li, Xingang Wang, Jinhui Sun, and Songbai Wu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2093–2118, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2093-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2093-2026, 2026
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24 Mar 2026
Surface pCO2 and hydrography in the dense water formation area of the southern Adriatic
Carlotta Dentico, Angelo Rubino, Giuseppe Civitarese, Michele Giani, Giuseppe Siena, Stefano Kuchler, Julien Le Meur, Andrea Corbo, and Vanessa Cardin
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2119–2131, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2119-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2119-2026, 2026
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25 Mar 2026
CLIMATHUNDERR: experimental database of buoyancy-driven downbursts
Federico Canepa, Anthony Guibert, Andi Xhelaj, Josip Žužul, Djordje Romanic, Alessio Ricci, Horia Hangan, Jean-Paul Bouchet, Philippe Delpech, Olivier Flamand, and Massimiliano Burlando
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2133–2152, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2133-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2133-2026, 2026
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25 Mar 2026
A multi-year global methane data set obtained by merging observations from TROPOMI and IASI
Kanwal Shahzadi, Matthias Schneider, Nga Ying Lo, Frank Hase, Jörg Meyer, Ugur Cayoglu, Tobias Borsdorff, and Mari C. Martinez-Velarte
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2153–2177, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2153-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2153-2026, 2026
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02 Apr 2026
Australia's terrestrial industrial footprint and ecological intactness
Ruben Venegas-Li, Scott Atkinson, Milton Aurelio Uba de Andrade Junior, Rachel Fletcher, Peter Owen, Lucia Morales-Barquero, Bora Aska, Miguel Arias-Patino, Hedley S. Grantham, Hugh Possingham, Oscar Venter, Michelle Ward, and James E. M. Watson
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2179–2201, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2179-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2179-2026, 2026
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25 Mar 2026
Advancing turbulence essential ocean variable: a reference glider-based microstructure dataset from the Western Mediterranean
Florian Volmer Martin Kokoszka, Mireno Borghini, Katrin Schroeder, Jacopo Chiggiato, Joaquín Tintoré, Nikolaos Dimitrios Zarokanellos, Albert Miralles, Patricia Rivera Rodríguez, Manuel Rubio, Miguel Charcos, Benjamín Casas, and Anneke ten Doeschate
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2203–2226, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2203-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2203-2026, 2026
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25 Mar 2026
An accurate 10 m annual crop map product of maize and soybean across the United States
Haijun Li, Xiao-Peng Song, Bernard Adusei, Jeffrey Pickering, Andre Lima, Andrew Poulson, Antoine Baggett, Peter Potapov, Ahmad Khan, Viviana Zalles, Andres Hernandez-Serna, Samuel M. Jantz, Amy H. Pickens, Carolina Ortiz-Dominguez, Xinyuan Li, Theodore Kerr, Zhen Song, Svetlana Turubanova, Eddy Bongwele, Heritier Koy Kondjo, Anna Komarova, Stephen V. Stehman, and Matthew C. Hansen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2227–2249, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2227-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2227-2026, 2026
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26 Mar 2026
DANRA: the kilometer-scale Danish regional atmospheric reanalysis
Xiaohua Yang, Carlos Peralta, Bjarne Amstrup, Kasper Stener Hintz, Søren Borg Thorsen, Leif Denby, Simon Kamuk Christiansen, Hauke Schulz, Sebastian Pelt, and Mathias Schreiner
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2251–2264, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2251-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2251-2026, 2026
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26 Mar 2026
Ground-based atmospheric measurements at the Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden): data & trends (2009–2025)
Faustine Mascaut, Roger Hammargren, and Peter Forkman
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2265–2283, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2265-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2265-2026, 2026
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27 Mar 2026
New global mean dynamic topography CNES-CLS-22 combining drifters, hydrography profiles and high frequency radar data
Solène Jousset, Sandrine Mulet, Eric Greiner, John Wilkin, Lien Vidar, Léon Chafik, Roshin Raj, Antonio Bonaduce, Nicolas Picot, and Gérald Dibarboure
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2285–2303, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2285-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2285-2026, 2026
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27 Mar 2026
Measurements of water droplet size distributions in a turbulent wind tunnel
Wiebke Frey, Silvio Schmalfuß, Frank Stratmann, and Dennis Niedermeier
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2305–2318, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2305-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2305-2026, 2026
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30 Mar 2026
ALTICAP: a new global satellite altimetry product for coastal applications
Mathilde Cancet, Florence Birol, Oscar Vergara, Quentin Dagneaux, Fabien Léger, François Bignalet-Cazalet, Jean-Alexis Daguze, Ergane Fouchet, Alexandre Homerin, Claire Maraldi, Fernando Niño, Marie-Isabelle Pujol, and Ngan Tran
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2319–2347, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2319-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2319-2026, 2026
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30 Mar 2026
A framework for gridded estimates of ammonia emissions from agriculture in South Asia
Samuel J. Tomlinson, Edward J. Carnell, Clare Pearson, Mark A. Sutton, Niveta Jain, and Ulrike Dragosits
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2349–2370, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2349-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2349-2026, 2026
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31 Mar 2026
Toward better conservation: a spatial analysis of species occurrence data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor, and David Wheeler
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2371–2395, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2371-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2371-2026, 2026
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01 Apr 2026
A manually labeled contrail dataset from MSG/SEVIRI
Vanessa Santos Gabriel, Luca Bugliaro, Mara Montag, Sabrina Ries, Ziming Wang, Kai Widmaier, Matteo Arico, Simon Unterstrasser, Johanna Mayer, Deniz Menekay, Andreas Marsing, Elena de la Torre Castro, Liam Megill, Monika Scheibe, and Christiane Voigt
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2397–2412, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2397-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2397-2026, 2026
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02 Apr 2026
NortheastChinaSoybeanYield20m: an annual soybean yield dataset at 20 m in Northeast China from 2019 to 2023
Jingyuan Xu, Xin Du, Taifeng Dong, Qiangzi Li, Yuan Zhang, Hongyan Wang, Jing Xiao, Jiashu Zhang, Yunqi Shen, and Yong Dong
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2413–2441, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2413-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2413-2026, 2026
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02 Apr 2026
Reconstruction of δ13CDIC in the Atlantic Ocean: a probabilistic machine learning approach for filling historical data gaps
Hui Gao, Zelun Wu, Zhentao Sun, Diana Cai, Meibing Jin, and Wei-Jun Cai
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2443–2467, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2443-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2443-2026, 2026
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02 Apr 2026
A first approach towards dual-hemisphere sea ice reference measurements from multiple data sources repurposed for evaluation and product intercomparison of satellite altimetry
Ida Lundtorp Olsen, Henriette Skourup, Heidi Sallila, Stefan Hendricks, Renée Mie Fredensborg Hansen, Stefan Kern, Stephan Paul, Marion Bocquet, Sara Fleury, Dmitry Divine, and Eero Rinne
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2469–2505, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2469-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2469-2026, 2026
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09 Apr 2026
Soil information and soil property maps for the Kurdistan region, Dohuk governorate (Iraq)
Mathias Bellat, Mjahid Zebari, Benjamin Glissmann, Tobias Rentschler, Paola Sconzo, Nafiseh Kakhani, Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Pegah Kohsravani, Bekas Brifkany, Peter Pfälzner, and Thomas Scholten
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2507–2548, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2507-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2507-2026, 2026
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09 Apr 2026
Differences in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions estimates explained
William F. Lamb, Robbie M. Andrew, Matthew Jones, Zebedee Nicholls, Glen P. Peters, Chris Smith, Marielle Saunois, Giacomo Grassi, Julia Pongratz, Steven J. Smith, Francesco N. Tubiello, Monica Crippa, Matthew Gidden, Pierre Friedlingstein, Jan Minx, and Piers M. Forster
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2549–2572, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2549-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2549-2026, 2026
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10 Apr 2026
Spatially distributed measurements of aerosols and stable isotopes in water vapour and precipitation in coastal Northern Norway during the ISLAS2021 campaign
Alena Dekhtyareva, Harald Sodemann, Tim Carlsen, Iris Thurnherr, Aina Johannessen, Andrew Seidl, David M. Chandler, Daniele Zannoni, Alexandra Touzeau, Marvin Kähnert, Astrid B. Gjelsvik, Franziska Hellmuth, Britta Schäfer, and Robert O. David
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2573–2607, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2573-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2573-2026, 2026
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13 Apr 2026
BuildingSense: a new multimodal building function classification dataset
Pengxiang Su, Runfei Chen, Heng Xu, Wei Huang, Xinling Deng, Songnian Li, Wanglin Yan, Hangbin Wu, and Chun Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2609–2634, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2609-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2609-2026, 2026
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13 Apr 2026
Ice front positions for Greenland glaciers (2002–2021): a spatially extensive seasonal record and benchmark dataset for algorithm validation
Xi Lu, Liming Jiang, Daan Li, Yi Liu, Andrew J. Sole, and Stephen J. Livingstone
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2635–2652, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2635-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2635-2026, 2026
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15 Apr 2026
A 28-year-long (1997–2024) hydrographic dataset from the southern Baltic Sea
Daniel Rak, Anna Izabela Bulczak, Waldemar Walczowski, Piotr Wieczorek, Małgorzata Merchel, Robert Osiński, Ilona Goszczko, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka Strzelewicz, and Małgorzata Kitowska
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2653–2665, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2653-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2653-2026, 2026
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16 Apr 2026
A dataset on the structural diversity of European forests
Marco Girardello, Gonzalo Oton, Matteo Piccardo, Mark Pickering, Agata Elia, Guido Ceccherini, Mariano Garcia, Mirco Migliavacca, and Alessandro Cescatti
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2667–2687, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2667-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2667-2026, 2026
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17 Apr 2026
A high-resolution tropopause folding dataset over China from 2014–2023
Yujia Yang, Le Cao, Liqiang Xu, Mengke Wang, Qingjian Yang, Yuqing Zhang, Tianqi Zhang, Xiuli Lei, Jiangpeng Miao, and Tianliang Zhao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2689–2702, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2689-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2689-2026, 2026
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20 Apr 2026
A harmonized 2000–2024 dataset of daily river ice concentration and annual phenology for major Arctic rivers
Jiahui Qiu, Kari Luojus, Harri Kaartinen, Yubao Qiu, Jari Silander, Epari Ritesh Patro, Björn Klöve, and Ali Torabi Haghighi
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2703–2722, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2703-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2703-2026, 2026
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20 Apr 2026
OzRiCa: an Australian riverine carbon database of concentrations, gas fluxes and isotopes
Francesco Ulloa-Cedamanos, Adam T. Rexroade, Yihan Li, Lindsay B. Hutley, Wei Wen Wong, Marcus B. Wallin, Josep G. Canadell, Anna Lintern, and Clément Duvert
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2723–2748, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2723-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2723-2026, 2026
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21 Apr 2026
Deriving regional and point source nitrogen oxides emissions in China from TROPOMI using the directional derivative approach with nonlinear chemical lifetime fitting
Ling Chen, Zhaonan Cai, Kang Sun, Yi Liu, Dongxu Yang, Mingming Li, and Lingyun Zhu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2749–2767, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2749-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2749-2026, 2026
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21 Apr 2026
OpenSWI: a massive-scale benchmark dataset for surface wave dispersion curve inversion
Feng Liu, Sijie Zhao, Xinyu Gu, Fenghua Ling, Peiqin Zhuang, Yaxing Li, Rui Su, Lihua Fang, Lianqing Zhou, Jianping Huang, and Lei Bai
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2769–2798, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2769-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2769-2026, 2026
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21 Apr 2026
Tethered balloon-borne measurements to characterise the evolution of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer at the Villum Research Station
Henning Dorff, Holger Siebert, Komal Navale, André Ehrlich, Joshua Müller, Michael Schäfer, Fan Wu, and Manfred Wendisch
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2799–2817, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2799-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2799-2026, 2026
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22 Apr 2026
Small uncrewed aircraft based microphysical measurements of polar stratus cloud during the Pallas Cloud Experiment 2022
Jessica Girdwood, David Brus, Konstantinos-Matthaios Doulgeris, and Alexander Böhmländer
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2819–2828, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2819-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2819-2026, 2026
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22 Apr 2026
PROMICE | GC-NET automatic weather station data
Robert S. Fausto, Penelope How, Baptiste Vandecrux, Mads C. Lund, Jason E. Box, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Signe B. Andersen, Dirk van As, Rasmus Bahbah, Michele Citterio, William Colgan, Henrik T. Jakobsgaard, Nanna B. Karlsson, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Signe H. Larsen, Charlotte Olsen, Falk M. Oraschewski, Anja Rutishauser, Christopher L. Shields, Anne M. Solgaard, Ian T. Stevens, Synne H. Svendsen, Kirsty Langley, Alexandra Messerli, Anders A. Bjørk, Jonas K. Andersen, Jakob Abermann, Jakob Steiner, Rainer Prinz, Berhard Hynek, James M. Lea, Stephen Brough, and Andreas P. Ahlstrøm
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2829–2873, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2829-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2829-2026, 2026
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23 Apr 2026
Monitoring dry snow metamorphism using 4D tomography across 20 experimental conditions
Oscar Dick, Neige Calonne, Benoît Laurent, and Pascal Hagenmuller
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2875–2889, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2875-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2875-2026, 2026
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27 Apr 2026
Mapping sea ice concentration using Nimbus-5 ESMR and local dynamical tie points
Emil Haaber Tellefsen, Rasmus Tage Tonboe, and Wiebke Margitta Kolbe
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2891–2906, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2891-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2891-2026, 2026
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27 Apr 2026
CCAV-10m: an annual spatiotemporal dataset for eastern coastal China’s wetland vegetation by integrating Sentinel-1/2 observations via deep learning
Yuying Li, Lina Yuan, Ting Liu, Zijiang Song, Shuang Yang, Zilong Zhu, and Min Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2907–2927, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2907-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2907-2026, 2026
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28 Apr 2026
Global open-ocean daily turbulent heat flux dataset (1992–2020) from SSM/I via deep learning
Haoyu Wang, Mengjiao Wang, and Xiaofeng Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2929–2950, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2929-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2929-2026, 2026
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28 Apr 2026
A historical nutrient dataset (1895–2024) for the North Pacific: reconstructed from machine learning and hydrographic observations
Chuanjun Du, Naiwen Zheng, Shuh-Ji Kao, Minhan Dai, Zhimian Cao, Dalin Shi, Qiancheng Li, Hao Wang, Xunlan Luo, and Xiaolin Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2951–2969, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2951-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2951-2026, 2026
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28 Apr 2026
The INGV macroseismic photographic database (DFM): a structured photographic collection of earthquake effects in Italy
Andrea Tertulliani, Laura Graziani, Mario Locati, Manuela Sbarra, Corrado Castellano, and Michele Berardi
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2971–2977, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2971-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2971-2026, 2026
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29 Apr 2026
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Creation and analysis of a multi-hazard dataset: Tenerife (Canary Islands) as a case study
Marta López-Saavedra, Joan Martí, and Marc Martínez-Sepúlveda
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2979–2998, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2979-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2979-2026, 2026
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05 May 2026
Improved global daily nitrogen dioxide concentrations from 2005 to 2023 derived using a deep learning approach
Jiangshan Mu, Chenliang Tao, Yuqiang Zhang, Zhou Liu, Yingnan Zhang, Na Zhao, Bin Luo, Qionghui Zhou, Qingzhu Zhang, Hongliang Zhang, and Likun Xue
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2999–3011, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2999-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2999-2026, 2026
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05 May 2026
The PALMOD 130k marine palaeoclimate data synthesis version 2
Lukas Jonkers, Martina Hollstein, Michael Siccha, and Michal Kucera
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3013–3068, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3013-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3013-2026, 2026
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08 May 2026
CropSight-US: an object-based crop type ground truth dataset using street view and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery across the contiguous United States, 2013–2023
Zhijie Zhou, Yin Liu, and Chunyuan Diao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3069–3097, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3069-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3069-2026, 2026
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08 May 2026
Spatially resolved meteorological and ancillary data in Central Europe for rainfall streamflow modeling
Marc Aurel Vischer, Noelia Otero, and Jackie Ma
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3099–3108, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3099-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3099-2026, 2026
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11 May 2026
State-of-the-art hydrological datasets exhibit low water balance consistency globally
Hao Huang, Junguo Liu, Aifang Chen, Melissa Ruiz-Vásquez, and René Orth
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3109–3124, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3109-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3109-2026, 2026
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12 May 2026
GEOXYGEN: a global long-term dissolved oxygen dataset based on biogeochemistry-aware machine learning framework and multi-source observations
Zhenguo Wang, Weiwei Fu, Cunjin Xue, and Guihua Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3125–3146, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3125-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3125-2026, 2026
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12 May 2026
A comprehensive database of thawing permafrost locations across Alaska: version 2.0.0
Hailey Webb, Ethan Pierce, Benjamin W. Abbott, William B. Bowden, Yaping Chen, Yating Chen, Thomas A. Douglas, Joel F. Eklof, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Moritz Langer, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Irina Overeem, Jens Strauss, Katey Walter Anthony, Kang Wang, Matthew A. Whitley, and Merritt R. Turetsky
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3147–3164, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3147-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3147-2026, 2026
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12 May 2026
A new dataset of Mesoscale Convective Complexes (MCC) derived from FY-2G satellite data
Ke Xu, Shuyun Zhao, Xinyu Ma, Jianchuan Shu, Wuke Wang, Qimin Deng, and Zaheer Ahmad Babar
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3165–3175, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3165-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3165-2026, 2026
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13 May 2026
The new seismic catalog of the Gargano area (Southern Italy) after a decade of seismic monitoring by OTRIONS network
Andrea Pio Ferreri, Annalisa Romeo, Rossella Giannuzzi, Teresa Ninivaggi, Marilena Filippucci, Gianpaolo Cecere, Luigi Falco, Maddalena Michele, Giulio Selvaggi, and Andrea Tallarico
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3177–3209, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3177-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3177-2026, 2026
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13 May 2026
Global Carbon Budget 2025
Pierre Friedlingstein, Michael O'Sullivan, Matthew W. Jones, Robbie M. Andrew, Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Judith Hauck, Peter Landschützer, Corinne Le Quéré, Hongmei Li, Ingrid T. Luijkx, Glen P. Peters, Wouter Peters, Julia Pongratz, Clemens Schwingshackl, Stephen Sitch, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Kjetil Aas, Simone R. Alin, Peter Anthoni, Leticia Barbero, Nicholas R. Bates, Nicolas Bellouin, Alice Benoit-Cattin, Carla F. Berghoff, Raffaele Bernardello, Laurent Bopp, Ida Bagus Mandhara Brasika, Matthew A. Chamberlain, Naveen Chandra, Frédéric Chevallier, Louise P. Chini, Nathan O. Collier, Thomas H. Colligan, Margot Cronin, Laique M. Djeutchouang, Xinyu Dou, Matt P. Enright, Kazutaka Enyo, Michael Erb, Wiley Evans, Richard A. Feely, Liang Feng, Daniel J. Ford, Adrianna Foster, Filippa Fransner, Thomas Gasser, Marion Gehlen, Thanos Gkritzalis, Jefferson Goncalves De Souza, Giacomo Grassi, Luke Gregor, Nicolas Gruber, Bertrand Guenet, Özgür Gürses, Kirsty Harrington, Ian Harris, Jens Heinke, George C. Hurtt, Yosuke Iida, Tatiana Ilyina, Akihiko Ito, Andrew R. Jacobson, Atul K. Jain, Tereza Jarníková, Annika Jersild, Fei Jiang, Steve D. Jones, Etsushi Kato, Ralph F. Keeling, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Jürgen Knauer, Yawen Kong, Jan Ivar Korsbakken, Charles Koven, Taro Kunimitsu, Xin Lan, Junjie Liu, Zhiqiang Liu, Zhu Liu, Claire Lo Monaco, Lei Ma, Gregg Marland, Patrick C. McGuire, Galen A. McKinley, Joe R. Melton, Natalie Monacci, Erwan Monier, Eric J. Morgan, David R. Munro, Jens D. Müller, Shin-Ichiro Nakaoka, Lorna R. Nayagam, Yosuke Niwa, Tobias Nutzel, Are Olsen, Abdirahman M. Omar, Naiqing Pan, Sudhanshu Pandey, Denis Pierrot, Zhangcai Qin, Pierre Regnier, Gregor Rehder, Laure Resplandy, Alizée Roobaert, Thais M. Rosan, Christian Rödenbeck, Jörg Schwinger, Ingunn Skjelvan, T. Luke Smallman, Victoria Spada, Mohanan G. Sreeush, Qing Sun, Adrienne J. Sutton, Colm Sweeney, Didier Swingedouw, Roland Séférian, Shintaro Takao, Hiroaki Tatebe, Hanqin Tian, Xiangjun Tian, Bronte Tilbrook, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Francesco Tubiello, Erik van Ooijen, Guido R. van der Werf, Sebastiaan J. van de Velde, Anthony P. Walker, Rik Wanninkhof, Xiaojuan Yang, Wenping Yuan, Xu Yue, and Jiye Zeng
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3211–3288, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3211-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3211-2026, 2026
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18 May 2026
OasisMap30: a 30 m annual land cover dataset of China's oases from 1987 to 2024
Peng Chen, Qiang Tang, Yanxu Liu, Yuchuan Luo, Linhai Cheng, Yijia Wang, Wenxuan Xu, and Shuai Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3289–3302, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3289-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3289-2026, 2026
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18 May 2026
25-year, quarterly land change maps of China's Loess Plateau reveal long-term and substantial water-induced soil erosion mitigation
Mofan Cheng, Zhuohong Li, Linxin Li, Wei He, Liangpei Zhang, and Hongyan Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3303–3340, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3303-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3303-2026, 2026
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19 May 2026
CoralCache: a virtual coral core repository for transparent and reproducible annual growth rate analyses
Thomas M. DeCarlo, Oliwia Jasnos, Avi Strange, Andreas Andersson, Angel T. Bautista VII, Sierra Bloomer, Isaiah W. Bolden, Maartje Bosman, Thomas C. Brachert, Giulia B. Braz, Gabriel O. Cardoso, Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet, Jessica E. Carilli, Karl D. Castillo, Leticia Cavole, Sylvia Chan, Xuefei Chen, Ben Chomitz, Thierry Correge, Travis A. Courtney, Mikayla Deigan, Juan Pablo D'Olivo, Robert Dunbar, Ian C. Enochs, Ludmilla Falsarella, Thomas Felis, Gabriela Gutierrez-Estrada, Brighton Hedger, Shijian Hu, Seamus Jameson, Stacy Jupiter, Paul Kench, Diego K. Kersting, Ke Lin, Yi-Wei Liu, Carla A. B. Lorigados, Derek P. Manzello, Malcolm T. McCulloch, Miguel Mies, Rodrigo L. Moura, Ferdinand Oberle, Natan Pereira, Nancy Prouty, Riovie D. Ramos, Haojia Ren, Emma Ryan, Diane M. Thompson, Lauren T. Toth, Marina J. Vergotti, Jody M. Webster, and Jens Zinke
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3341–3353, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3341-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3341-2026, 2026
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19 May 2026
Riverine phosphorus gain and loss across the conterminous United States
Yiming Wang, Xuesong Zhang, Kaiguang Zhao, Robert D. Sabo, Yuxin Miao, and Christopher M. Clark
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3355–3365, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3355-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3355-2026, 2026
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19 May 2026
ICEland-1: a geochronological database for reconstructing Late Quaternary glacier, relative sea level, and paleoclimate patterns in Iceland
David J. Harning, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, John T. Andrews, Aaron M. Barth, and Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3367–3390, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3367-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3367-2026, 2026
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19 May 2026
Bowen ratio-constrained global dataset of bulk air–sea turbulent heat fluxes from 1993 to 2017
Yizhe Wang, Ronglin Tang, Meng Liu, Lingxiao Huang, and Zhao-Liang Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3391–3414, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3391-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3391-2026, 2026
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20 May 2026
Development of historical maps of land use-land cover, crop type, nutrients, and irrigation across CONUS (1938–2020) at different spatial resolutions
Eric G. Booth and Christopher J. Kucharik
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3415–3433, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3415-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3415-2026, 2026
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21 May 2026
Hydrometeorological and hydrological data from Baker Creek Research Watershed, Northwest Territories, Canada, release V.3
Christopher Spence and Newell Hedstrom
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3435–3447, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3435-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3435-2026, 2026
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21 May 2026
A temporally consistent global 500 m-resolution monthly VIIRS-like nighttime light dataset (1992–2024)
Hongquan Cheng, Mengqing Geng, Xuecao Li, Shijie Li, Min Zhao, Chen Lin, Jie Wang, Peng Gong, and Yuyu Zhou
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3449–3479, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3449-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3449-2026, 2026
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22 May 2026
GRACE and GRACE-FO mascons for ocean dynamic applications
Jennifer Bonin, Nadège Pie, Mark E. Tamisiea, Don Chambers, and Himanshu Save
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3481–3505, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3481-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3481-2026, 2026
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22 May 2026
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Machine-learning-based estimates of global natural vegetated wetland methane emissions (2000–2025)
Mengze Li, Robert B. Jackson, Marielle Saunois, Philippe Ciais, Ben Poulter, Josep G. Canadell, Prabir K. Patra, Hanqin Tian, Zhen Zhang, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Zutao Ouyang, Ting Zhang, David J. Beerling, Dmitry A. Belikov, Philippe Bousquet, Danilo Custodio, Naveen Chandra, Xinyu Dou, Nicola Gedney, Peter O. Hopcroft, Alison M. Hoyt, Kazuhito Ichii, Akihito Ito, Atul K. Jain, Katherine Jensen, Fortunat Joos, Thomas Kleinen, Masayuki Kondo, Fa Li, Tingting Li, Xiangyu Liu, Shamil Maksyutov, Avni Malhotra, Adrien Martinez, Kyle McDonald, Joe R. Melton, Jurek Müller, Yosuke Niwa, Shufen Pan, Shushi Peng, Changhui Peng, Zhangcai Qin, Peter Raymond, William Riley, Arjo Segers, Rona L. Thompson, Aki Tsuruta, Yi Xi, Kunxiaojia Yuan, Wenxin Zhang, Bo Zheng, Qing Zhu, Qiuan Zhu, and Qianlai Zhuang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3507–3524, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3507-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3507-2026, 2026
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22 May 2026
Thermo-hydrological river valley observatory in Yedoma permafrost from 2012 through 2022 in Syrdakh, Central Yakutia
Eric Pohl, Christophe Grenier, Antoine Séjourné, Frédéric Bouchard, Emmanuel Léger, Albane Saintenoy, Pavel Konstantinov, Amélie Cuynet, Catherine Ottlé, Christine Hatté, Aurélie Noret, Kensheri Danilov, Kirill Bazhin, Ivan Khristoforov, Daniel Fortier, Alexander Fedorov, and Emmanuel Mouche
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3525–3557, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3525-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3525-2026, 2026
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26 May 2026
A dataset of vertical profiles of O3 and HONO from the hyperspectral vertical remote sensing network in China (2021–2024)
Tiliang Zou, Chengzhi Xing, Xiangguang Ji, Shaocong Wei, Wei Tan, Haoran Liu, and Cheng Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3559–3585, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3559-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3559-2026, 2026
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26 May 2026
A Reanalysis-Based Global Tropical Cyclone Tracks Dataset for the Twentieth Century (RGTracks-20C)
Guiling Ye, Jeremy Cheuk-Hin Leung, Wenjie Dong, Ralf Toumi, Jianjun Xu, Weijing Li, Weihong Qian, Hoiio Kong, and Banglin Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3587–3607, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3587-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3587-2026, 2026
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27 May 2026
Gulf of St. Lawrence and Estuary Dataset (GOSLED): a 20-year compilation of quality-controlled biogeochemical observations (2003–2023)
William A. Nesbitt, Alfonso O. Mucci, Toste Tanhua, Yves Gélinas, Jean-Éric Tremblay, Gwénaëlle Chaillou, Ludovic Pascal, Caroline Fradette, Lennart Gerke, Samuel W. Stevens, Mathilde Jutras, Marjolaine Blais, Martine Lizotte, Michel Starr, and Douglas W. R. Wallace
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3609–3634, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3609-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3609-2026, 2026
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01 Jun 2026
Two biogenic volatile organic compound emission datasets over Europe based on land surface modelling and satellite data assimilation
Paul D. Hamer, Miha Markelj, Oscar Rojas-Munoz, Bertrand Bonan, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Virginie Marécal, Alex Guenther, Heidi Trimmel, Islen Vallejo, Sabine Eckhardt, Gabriela Sousa Santos, Katerina Sindelarova, David Simpson, Norbert Schmidbauer, Heidi Hellén, Pascal Rubli, Stefan Reimann, Anja Claude, Dagmar Kubistin, Julie Cozic, James Dernie, and Leonor Tarrasón
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3635–3669, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3635-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3635-2026, 2026
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01 Jun 2026
OneDZ: a global detrital zircon database and implications for constructing giant geoscience database
Keran Li, Xiumian Hu, Rong Chai, Jianghai Yang, Weiwei Xue, Yingdi Pan, Taiyang Li, Can Fang, Anlin Ma, Hu Huang, Qianqian Guo, Wentao Yang, Lisha Hu, Liang Qi, Guohui Chen, Gaoyuan Sun, Shijie Zhang, Tao Deng, Kuizhou Li, Jiaopeng Sun, and Biao Gao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3671–3696, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3671-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3671-2026, 2026
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02 Jun 2026
Microbial necromass contribution to topsoil organic carbon storage of natural and agricultural ecosystems
Jing-Li Lu, Thomas W. Crowther, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Wenjie Liu, Yamin Jiang, Hongyang Sun, and Zhiqiang Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3697–3710, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3697-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3697-2026, 2026
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02 Jun 2026
A 25 km daily gridded dataset of meteorological variables and high-impact weather events for new-type power systems in China
Feimin Zhang, Kaixuan Bi, Xing Chen, Yi Yang, Fang Yang, and Chenghai Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3711–3728, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3711-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3711-2026, 2026
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02 Jun 2026
TephAta – an online collection of tephra data from the Atacama Desert
Niklas Leicher, Vincent Feldmar, Andrés Quezada Jara, Paulina Vásquez Illanes, Fernando Sepúlveda Vásquez, Frank Wombacher, Markus Lagos, Tanja Kramm, Gabriel González, Klaudia Kuiper, Christoph Breitkreuz, Alberto Sáez, Domingo Gimeno, Lluís Cabrera, Inés Rodríguez Araneda, Bernd Wagner, Georg Bareth, and Volker Wennrich
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3729–3756, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3729-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3729-2026, 2026
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03 Jun 2026
Global monthly ocean dissolved oxygen (1960–2023) reconstructed to 5902 m with BLENDR, a Bayesian-optimized ensemble learning framework
Mingyu Han, Xiaogang Xing, and Yuntao Zhou
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3757–3777, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3757-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3757-2026, 2026
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03 Jun 2026
A physically consistent soil thickness map of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau derived from coupled erosion mechanisms
Lihua Chen, Xingyu Ding, Shuping Zhao, Fujun Niu, Keting Feng, and Zhuotong Nan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3779–3801, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3779-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3779-2026, 2026
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03 Jun 2026
Temperatures of impervious surfaces in rural Montana
David Carlson
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3803–3831, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3803-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3803-2026, 2026
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04 Jun 2026
The GSFC Lidar Observation and Validation Experiment (GLOVE) field campaign
John E. Yorks, Edward P. Nowottnick, Steven Platnick, Kerry G. Meyer, Matthew Walker McLinden, Meloe S. F. Kacenelenbogen, Kenneth E. Christian, Joseph A. Finlon, Natalie A. Midzak, Natalia Roldán-Henao, Patrick A. Selmer, Matthew J. McGill, Erica K. Dolinar, Charles N. Helms, Robert Koopman, Jonas von Bismark, and Montserrat Pińol Solé
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3833–3852, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3833-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3833-2026, 2026
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05 Jun 2026
Peat core research in the Western Siberian Lowland: applications of palaeoecological proxies, regions studied, and future prospects
Agnieszka Halaś and Michał Słowiński
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3853–3888, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3853-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3853-2026, 2026
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11 Jun 2026
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Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Piers M. Forster, Tristram Walsh, Chris Smith, William F. Lamb, Robin Lamboll, Christophe Cassou, Mathias Hauser, Zeke Hausfather, June-Yi Lee, Matthew D. Palmer, Karina von Schuckmann, Aimée B. A. Slangen, Sophie Szopa, Blair Trewin, Jeongeun Yun, Nathan P. Gillett, Stuart Jenkins, H. Damon Matthews, Krishnan Raghavan, Aurélien Ribes, Joeri Rogelj, Debbie Rosen, Xuebin Zhang, Myles Allen, Robbie M. Andrew, Chris Atkinson, Richard A. Betts, Antonio Bombelli, Samantha N. Burgess, Lijing Cheng, Helen E. Claxton, Pierre Friedlingstein, Thomas L. Frölicher, Catia M. Domingues, Thomas Gasser, Catherine H. Gregory, Rachel M. Hoesly, Daniel Huppmann, Masayoshi Ishii, Christopher Kadow, Alexia Karwat, John Kennedy, Rachel E. Killick, Mahesh V. M. Kovilakam, Paul B. Krummel, Xin Lan, Jean-François Lamarque, Aurélien Liné, Belén Martín-Míguez, Didier P. Monselesan, Colin Morice, Jens Mühle, Pino Mussak, Glen P. Peters, Anna Pirani, Julia Pongratz, Matthew Rigby, Robert Rohde, Abhishek Savita, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Steven J. Smith, Ghassan Taha, Caterina Tassone, Peter Thorne, Christopher Wells, Luke M. Western, Guido R. van der Werf, Susan E. Wijffels, Marco Zecchetto, Junting Zhong, Xiao-Ye Zhang, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, and Panmao Zhai
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3889–3933, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3889-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3889-2026, 2026
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10 Jun 2026
A global eddy splitting and merging trajectory dataset based on satellite altimetry utilizing eddygroup, eddytree and eddygraph
Fenglin Tian, Xiangwen Kong, Yingying Zhao, and Ge Chen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3935–3958, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3935-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3935-2026, 2026
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10 Jun 2026
Link-based European road transport emissions for CAMS-REG v8.1 and a comparison to city inventories
Tilman Leo Hohenberger, Marya el Malki, Antoon Visschedijk, Marc Guevara, Martin Otto Paul Ramacher, Alessandro Marongiu, Guido Giuseppe Lanzani, Giuseppe Fossati, Anu Kousa, Eleni Athanasopoulou, Anastasia Kakouri, and Jeroen Kuenen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3959–3978, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3959-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3959-2026, 2026
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10 Jun 2026
A decade-long hydrographic moored time series near the Drygalski Ice Tongue, Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea
Liv Cornelissen, Sukyoung Yun, Jasmin McInerney, Brett Grant, Fiona Elliott, Seung-Tae Yoon, Christopher J. Zappa, Won Sang Lee, and Craig Stevens
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3979–3996, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3979-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3979-2026, 2026
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11 Jun 2026
CY-Bench: a comprehensive benchmark dataset for sub-national crop yield forecasting
Michiel Kallenberg, Dilli Paudel, Stella Ofori-Ampofo, Hilmy Baja, Ron van Bree, Aike Potze, Pratishtha Poudel, Abdelrahman Saleh, Weston Anderson, Malte von Bloh, Andres Castellano, Oumnia Ennaji, Raed Hamed, Rahel Laudien, Donghoon Lee, Inti Luna, Dainius Masiliūnas, Michele Meroni, Janet Mumo Mutuku, Siyabusa Mkuhlani, Jonathan Richetti, Alex C. Ruane, Ritvik Sahajpal, Guanyuan Shuai, Vasileios Sitokonstantinou, Rogério de S. Nóia-Júnior, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Robert Strong, Lily-belle Sweet, Petar Vojnović, Allard de Wit, Maximilian Zachow, and Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3997–4018, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3997-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3997-2026, 2026
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12 Jun 2026
A daily gridded high-resolution meteorological data set for historical impact studies in Switzerland since 1763
Noemi Imfeld and Stefan Brönnimann
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4019–4045, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4019-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4019-2026, 2026
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15 Jun 2026
An operational global L-band soil moisture and vegetation optical depth dataset from optimized 40° SMOS brightness temperatures for 2010–2024
Zanpin Xing, Xiaojun Li, Frédéric Frappart, Gabrielle De Lannoy, Thomas Jagdhuber, Jian Peng, Lei Fan, Hongliang Ma, Lanka Karthikeyan, Xiangzhuo Liu, Mengjia Wang, Lin Zhao, Yongqin Liu, and Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4047–4073, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4047-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4047-2026, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
EuroCrops v2.0: multi-annual harmonized parcel level crop type data linked to European Union-wide survey, statistical, and Earth Observation products
Martin Claverie, Ayshah Chan, Linda See, Helena Ramos, Renate Koeble, Momchil Yordanov, Jon Olav Skøien, Ferdinando Urbano, Raphael d'Andrimont, Maja Schneider, Marco Körner, and Marijn Van der Velde
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4075–4095, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4075-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4075-2026, 2026
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17 Jun 2026
A high-resolution gridded dataset of water footprints for China's major food crops from 2001 to 2020
En Hua, Ling Huang, Liangliang Zhang, Quanbo Zhao, Yingxuan Wang, Bowei Wu, Sien Li, Yaokui Cui, Yubao Wang, and Xuhui Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4097–4112, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4097-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4097-2026, 2026
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17 Jun 2026
HYD-RESPONSES: daily hydro-meteorological catchment-level time series to analyse HYDrological drought dynamics in RESPONSE to (cumulative) water deficits in Swiss catchments
Christoph Nathanael von Matt, Benjamin David Stocker, and Olivia Martius
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4113–4154, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4113-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4113-2026, 2026
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18 Jun 2026
PolyU2025 SLA: a global 0.25°  ×  0.25° monthly sea-level anomaly dataset (1993–2024) determined from satellite altimetry for sea-level and climate change research
Jiajia Yuan, Jianli Chen, and Dongju Peng
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4155–4178, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4155-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4155-2026, 2026
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18 Jun 2026
Global thermocline vertical velocities: a novel observation-based estimate
Diego Cortés-Morales, Alban Lazar, Diana Ruiz Pino, and Juliette Mignot
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4179–4202, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4179-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4179-2026, 2026
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19 Jun 2026
Field measurements of hydrodynamics and sediment transport at intertidal areas in the Dutch Wadden Sea
Roy van Weerdenburg, Thomas Veerman, Meike Traas, Jan-Willem Mol, Bas van Maren, Dannie Beks, Maarten van der Vegt, and Bram van Prooijen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4203–4217, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4203-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4203-2026, 2026
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22 Jun 2026
TPLake-MED: a monthly extent dataset for lakes on the Tibetan Plateau
Siyu Zhao, Xiang Zhao, Jiacheng Zhao, Xin Zhang, Xingyu Liu, and Chengzhi Yao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4219–4239, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4219-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4219-2026, 2026
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22 Jun 2026
Ice thickness and subglacial topography of Swedish reference glaciers revealed by radio-echo sounding
Zhuo Wang, Neil Ross, Thomas Frank, Jamie Barnett, Ilaria Santin, Martin Houssais, Johanna Dahlkvist, and Nina Kirchner
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4241–4262, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4241-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4241-2026, 2026
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22 Jun 2026
Max Planck WinDarts: atmospheric boundary layer measurements with the Max Planck CloudKite platform and ground weather station – a data overview
Venecia Chávez-Medina, Hossein Khodamoradi, Oliver Schlenczek, Freja Nordsiek, Claudia E. Brunner, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Gholamhossein Bagheri
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4263–4278, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4263-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4263-2026, 2026
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24 Jun 2026
Reconstructing two-decade daily high-resolution seamless global land XCO2 records using a hybrid Transformer–BiLSTM model
Yu Qu, Xian Shi, Yulong Fan, Zhihui Wang, and Jing Wei
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4279–4301, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4279-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4279-2026, 2026
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24 Jun 2026
A 30-year ocean front dataset from 1993 to 2023 for the Northwest Pacific Ocean based on deep learning
Yuan Niu, Xuefeng Zhang, and Dianjun Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4303–4316, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4303-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4303-2026, 2026
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25 Jun 2026
Global Ocean data set of marine aerosol properties
Patricia K. Quinn, Timothy S. Bates, Derek J. Coffman, James E. Johnson, Lucia M. Upchurch, and Hanna Best
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4317–4343, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4317-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4317-2026, 2026
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26 Jun 2026
CAMELS-GB v2: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain
Gemma Coxon, Yanchen Zheng, Rafael Barbedo, Hollie Cooper, Felipe Fileni, Hayley J. Fowler, Matt Fry, Amy Green, Tom Gribbin, Helen Harfoot, Elizabeth Lewis, Germano Gondim Ribeiro Neto, Xiaobin Qiu, Saskia Salwey, and Doris E. Wendt
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4345–4371, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4345-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4345-2026, 2026
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26 Jun 2026
CropPlantHarvest: a 500 m annual dataset of crop planting and harvesting dates (2001–2024) of the U.S. Midwest
Yin Liu and Chunyuan Diao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4373–4392, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4373-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4373-2026, 2026
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26 Jun 2026
Next-generation Metop ASCAT surface soil moisture datasets from EUMETSAT H SAF
Sebastian Hahn, Thomas Melzer, and Wolfgang Wagner
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4393–4423, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4393-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4393-2026, 2026
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26 Jun 2026
BEACH: Barbados and Eastern Atlantic Combined High-altitude dropsonde datasets
Helene Marie Gloeckner, Theresa Mieslinger, Nina Robbins-Blanch, Geet George, Lukas Kluft, Tobias Kölling, Sandrine Bony, Julia Miriam Windmiller, and Bjorn Stevens
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4425–4450, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4425-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4425-2026, 2026
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30 Jun 2026
High-resolution, multi-depth mapping of soil bulk density and pH in China's forests using machine learning
Jizhen Chen, Xin Zhang, Zihao Fan, Tao Liu, Wenfa Xiao, Qiwu Sun, Xiangyang Sun, and Zhilin Huang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4451–4474, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4451-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4451-2026, 2026
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02 Jul 2026
Paleozoic–Mesozoic terrestrial total organic carbon and organic carbon isotope database
Yaokai Tian, Daoliang Chu, Jiankang Lai, Xiang Shu, Cidong Zhang, Fangyu Cui, Liangyu Lou, Xiaokang Liu, Yuyang Wu, Qingzhong Liang, Xinchuan Li, Hong Yao, and Haijun Song
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4475–4487, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4475-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4475-2026, 2026
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02 Jul 2026
HDM-Plot: a plot dataset of plant communities across three-dimensional zonal vegetation in the Hengduan Mountains and adjacent regions, southwestern China
Yili Jin, Liuyiyi Yang, Xiaofei Hu, Chen Yang, Haojun Xia, Ying Hou, Kai Wu, Shaolin Shi, Xingxing Mao, and Jian Ni
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4489–4507, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4489-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4489-2026, 2026
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02 Jul 2026
A consolidated database of mercury observations for permafrost regions
Christine L. Olson, Kevin Schaefer, Alyssa Azaroff, Hélène Angot, Sasiri Bandara, Thomas A. Douglas, Bo Elberling, Maria Florencia Fahnestock, Xinbin Feng, Charlotte Haugk, Gustaf Hugelius, Erfan Jahangir, Sofi Jonsson, Shichang Kang, Adam Kirkwood, Jennifer Korosi, Igor Lehnherr, Artem Lim, Rinat Manasypov, Dmitriy Moskovchenko, Mina Nasr, Daniel Obrist, David Olefeldt, Connor Olson, Oleg Pokrovsky, Laura Sereni, Sarah Shakil, M. Isabel Smith, Jens Søndergaard, Jeroen Sonke, Kasia Staniszewska, Jens Strauss, Kyra St. Pierre, Lauren Thompson, Andrey Yurtaev, Yanxu Zhang, and Scott Zolkos
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4509–4522, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4509-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4509-2026, 2026
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03 Jul 2026
Mapping global onshore wind turbines using multi-source remote sensing images and hybrid learning approaches
Shujun Li, Jianchuan Qi, Yongze Song, and Peng Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4523–4536, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4523-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4523-2026, 2026
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03 Jul 2026
SYSU TWSA v1.0: global high-resolution terrestrial water storage anomalies via satellite gravimetry
Yuhao Xiong, Wei Feng, Jun Huang, Hongbing Bai, Guangyu Jian, and Min Zhong
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4537–4561, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4537-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4537-2026, 2026
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03 Jul 2026
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NZ-BeachTopo30: a national-scale and full-coverage 30 m beach topography dataset for New Zealand reconstructed by fusing ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2
Yuhao Wang, Hao Xu, Nan Xu, Edward Park, Xuejiao Hou, Jiayi Fang, Zhen Zhang, Yongjing Mao, Huichao Xin, Chunpeng Chen, Yinxia Cao, Yifu Ou, Xinyue Gu, Wenyu Li, Xiaojuan Liu, Conghong Huang, and Qingquan Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4563–4591, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4563-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4563-2026, 2026
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06 Jul 2026
A four-decade global Lagrangian air-parcel trajectory dataset for atmospheric moisture and heat analysis
Victoria M. H. Deman, Damián Insua-Costa, Jessica Keune, Akash Koppa, and Diego G. Miralles
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4593–4615, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4593-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4593-2026, 2026
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06 Jul 2026
Attention enhanced 3D-U-Net+ +  ocean temperature and salinity reconstruction in the northwestern Pacific based on transfer learning
Hao Wang, Linlin Zhang, Shuguo Yang, Xiaomei Yan, and Zhen Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4617–4638, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4617-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4617-2026, 2026
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06 Jul 2026
The 2024 release of the Global Heat Flow Database (GHFDB): quality assessment, metadata standards, and a century of geothermal data
Florian Neumann, Ben Norden, Elif Balkan-Pazvantoğlu, Samah Elbarbary, Alexey G. Petrunin, Kirsten Elger, Samuel Jennings, Viktoria Dergunova, and Sven Fuchs
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4639–4668, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4639-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4639-2026, 2026
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06 Jul 2026
Extending the late 1963 to 1964 Mt Agung rescued searchlight aerosol profiles dataset at 32° N, from early 1963 to 1975
Juan Carlos Antuña-Marrero, Abel Calle, Juan Antonio Añel, Victoria Cachorro, Laura de la Torre, David Barriopedro, Ricardo García Herrera, and Javier Pacheco
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4669–4676, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4669-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4669-2026, 2026
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06 Jul 2026
Earthquake catalog and continuous waveforms from a two-week distributed acoustic sensing experiment on Kefalonia Island, Greece
Gian Maria Bocchini, Emanuele Bozzi, Marco P. Roth, Sonja Gaviano, Giulio Pascucci, Francesco Grigoli, Ettore Biondi, Efthimios Sokos, and Rebecca M. Harrington
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4677–4695, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4677-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4677-2026, 2026
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07 Jul 2026
Unified Global Landslide Catalogue (UGLC): a single, standardised global-scale landslide dataset
Saverio Mancino, Anna Sblano, Francesco Paolo Lovergine, Vincenzo Massimi, Tushar Sethi, Domenico Capolongo, and Giuseppe Amatulli
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4697–4723, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4697-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4697-2026, 2026
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08 Jul 2026
The first decadal-scale ground-based microwave radiometer dataset in China: brightness temperature and thermodynamic profiles from Xianghe (2013–2022)
Yueyuan Gong, Wenying He, Disong Fu, Xiang'ao Xia, Hongrong Shi, Weidong Nan, Pucai Wang, and Hongbin Chen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4725–4744, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4725-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4725-2026, 2026
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09 Jul 2026
CAMELS-FI: hydrometeorological time series and landscape properties for 320 catchments in Finland
Iiro Seppä, Carlos Gonzales Inca, Jari Uusikivi, and Petteri Alho
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4745–4769, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4745-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4745-2026, 2026
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10 Jul 2026
Oceanographic dataset of the near-shore water column of the northeastern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, during the ice-free season
Emilie Arseneault, Neha Joshi, Julie Carrière, and Émilie Saulnier-Talbot
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4771–4791, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4771-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4771-2026, 2026
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10 Jul 2026
A global dataset of δ13C-CH4 source signatures and associated uncertainties (1998–2022), with a sensitivity analysis to support isotopic inversions
Emeline Tapin, Antoine Berchet, Adrien Martinez, Malika Menoud, Joël Thanwerdas, Xin Lan, Edward Malina, Daniele Gasbarra, and Marielle Saunois
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4793–4832, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4793-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4793-2026, 2026
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13 Jul 2026
Long-term irrigation water use datasets from multiple Earth Observation-based methods in major irrigated regions
Pierre Laluet, Jacopo Dari, Louise Busschaert, Zdenko Heyvaert, Gabrielle De Lannoy, Pia Langhans, Sara Modanesi, Christian Massari, Luca Brocca, Carla Saltalippi, Renato Morbidelli, Clément Albergel, and Wouter Dorigo
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4833–4853, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4833-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4833-2026, 2026
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13 Jul 2026
Recent summer soil moisture drying in Switzerland based on measurements from the SwissSMEX network
Martin Hirschi, Dominik Michel, Dominik L. Schumacher, Wolfgang Preimesberger, and Sonia I. Seneviratne
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4855–4870, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4855-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4855-2026, 2026
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14 Jul 2026
A long-term dataset on hydrology and suspended sediments in the Kamech catchment from the OMERE Observatory
Radhouane Hamdi, Damien Raclot, Insaf Mekki, Mohamed Gasmi, and Jean Albergel
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4871–4884, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4871-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4871-2026, 2026
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15 Jul 2026
Hydrologic, biogeochemical, microbial, and macroinvertebrate responses to network expansion, contraction, and disconnection across headwater stream networks with distinct physiography in Alabama, USA
Stephen Plont, Delaney M. Peterson, Chelsea R. Smith, Charles T. Bond, Andrielle Larissa Kemajou Tchamba, Michelle A. Wolford, Kaci Zarek, Shannon L. Speir, C. Nathan Jones, Jonathan P. Benstead, Michelle H. Busch, Rebecca L. Hale, Connor L. Brown, Erin C. Seybold, Arial J. Shogren, Kevin A. Kuehn, Yaqi You, Colin R. Jackson, Amy J. Burgin, and Carla L. Atkinson
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4885–4914, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4885-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4885-2026, 2026
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15 Jul 2026
CARIMED (CARbon, tracers, and ancillary data In the MEDiterranean Sea): a ship-based data synthesis product – overview and quality control procedures
Marta Álvarez, Maribel I. García-Ibáñez, Nico Lange, Alex Kozyr, Antón Velo, Toste Tanhua, Giuseppe Civitarese, Carolina Cantoni, Malek Belgacem, Katrin Schroeder, Rubén Acerbi, Laurent Coppola, Thibaut Wagener, Noelia M. Fajar, Susana Flecha, Michele Giani, Louisa Giannoudi, Elisa F. Guallart, Abed El Rahman Hassoun, Emma I. Huertas, Valeria Ibello, Mehdia A. Keraghel, Férial Louanchi, Anna Luchetta, Fiz F. Pérez, Carsten Schirnick, Ekaterini Souvermezoglou, Lidia Urbini, Montserrat Vidal, and Patrizia Ziveri
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4915–4941, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4915-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4915-2026, 2026
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16 Jul 2026
Mercury dataset over the Third Pole
Shichang Kang, Jie Huang, Qianggong Zhang, Junming Guo, Xiufeng Yin, Shiwei Sun, Xuejun Sun, Lekhendra Tripathee, Sabur Abdullaev, Wenjun Tang, Yi Zhang, Xiwen Miao, Liujian Liao, and Lusheng Che
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4943–4963, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4943-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4943-2026, 2026
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16 Jul 2026
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TundraFlux: a database of ecosystem respiration with biotic and abiotic metadata from Arctic and alpine tundra warming experiments
Sarah Schwieger, Jan Dietrich, Mats P. Björkman, Judith M. Sarneel, Bowen Li, Joel White, Inge H. J. Althuizen, Christina Biasi, Robert G. Björk, Hanna Böhner, Brage Bremset Hansen, Michele Carbognani, Giorgio Chiari, Casper T. Christiansen, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Hans Cornelissen, Ludovica D'Imperio, Ellen Dorrepaal, Bo Elberling, Patrick Faubert, Ned Fetcher, T'ai G. W. Forte, Joseph Gaudard, Konstantin Gavazov, Zhen-Huan Guan, Jón Guðmundsson, Siri V. Haugum, Jin-Sheng He, Caitlin Hicks Pries, Mark Hovenden, Simone I. Lang, Gus Jespersen, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Ji Young Jung, Olga Khitun, Birgitte Kortegaard Danielsen, Richard Lamprecht, Mathilde Le Moullec, Hanna Lee, Maija E. Marushchak, Anders Michelsen, Tariq Munir, Eero Myrsky, Kevin K. Newsham, Marion Nyberg, Steven F. Oberbauer, Paulo Olivas, Johan Olofsson, Hlynur Óskarsson, Thomas C. Parker, Matteo Petit Bon, Alessandro Petraglia, Emily Pickering Pedersen, Katrine Raundrup, Nynne R. Ravn, Riikka Rinnan, Heidi Rodenhizer, Ingvild Ryde, Alejandro Salazar, Niels M. Schmidt, Ted Schuur, Sofie Sjögersten, Cecilie Skov Nielsen, Sari Stark, Maria Strack, Jianwu Tang, Sylvia Toet, Anne Tolvanen, Maria Väisänen, Richard Van Logtestijn, Vigdis Vandvik, Carolina Voigt, Josefine Walz, Jeffrey M. Welker, Yuanhe Yang, Henni Ylänne, and Sybryn L. Maes
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4965–4982, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4965-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4965-2026, 2026
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16 Jul 2026
PlanetGSD 1.0: a cross-planetary grain-size distribution dataset from the Earth, the Moon, and the Mars
Jun Zhang and Yong Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4983–5008, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4983-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4983-2026, 2026
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17 Jul 2026
Conversion factors for Greenland shelf benthos: Weight-to-weight and body-size-to-weight relationships
Johanna Behrisch and Nadescha Zwerschke
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5009–5026, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5009-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5009-2026, 2026
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20 Jul 2026
The DTU25 mean sea surface: from and for SWOT
Bjarke Nilsson, Ole Baltazar Andersen, and Per Knudsen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5027–5051, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5027-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5027-2026, 2026
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20 Jul 2026
Regional Oceanographic Database (BaRDO) for the Argentine Continental Shelf
Ana G. Baldoni, Graciela N. Molinari, and Raúl A. Guerrero
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5053–5067, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5053-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5053-2026, 2026
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20 Jul 2026
Jingwei-Nutrients: a global spatiotemporal reconstruction of ocean nutrients (1965–2023) using multi-task deep learning
Zhaokun Wang, Bin Lu, Yi Xin, Takamitsu Ito, Lei Zhou, Lijing Cheng, Yuanlong Li, Xinbing Wang, and Meng Jin
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5069–5092, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5069-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5069-2026, 2026
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20 Jul 2026
Unveiling the deep ocean warming: observed bottom ocean dataset across Mediterranean Sea
Nadia Lo Bue, Beatrice Giambenedetti, Davide Embriaco, Paolo Bagiacchi, Claudia Fratianni, Riccardo Vagni, and Giuditta Marinaro
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5093–5115, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5093-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5093-2026, 2026
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20 Jul 2026
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The Greenland GNSS Network (GNET): geodetic grade GNSS measurements of Greenland's 3D bedrock displacement from 1995–2025
Christian Solgaard, Finn Bo Madsen, Malte Winther-Dahl, Thomas Henry Nylen, Danjal Longfors Berg, Ole Bjerregaard, Javed Hassan, Per Knudsen, Michael Bevis, and Shfaqat Abbas Khan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5117–5142, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5117-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5117-2026, 2026
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21 Jul 2026
Glacial Lake Observatory (GLO): annual dataset of glacial lakes in Nepal and transboundary catchments (2017–2024)
Lauren D. Rawlins, C. Scott Watson, Rakesh Bhambri, Nitesh Khadka, and Mohan B. Chand
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5143–5165, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5143-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5143-2026, 2026
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21 Jul 2026
A combination of time-variable gravity field solutions from multi-satellite datasets (1993–2024) via constrained collocation model
Lin Zhang, Yunzhong Shen, Nico Sneeuw, Peyman Saemian, Kunpu Ji, Qiujie Chen, and Fengwei Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5167–5186, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5167-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5167-2026, 2026
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22 Jul 2026
The UWO dataset – long-term observations from a full-scale field laboratory to better understand urban hydrology at small spatio-temporal scales
Frank Blumensaat, Simon Bloem, Christian Ebi, Andy Disch, Christian Förster, Max Maurer, Mayra Rodriguez, and Jörg Rieckermann
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5187–5208, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5187-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5187-2026, 2026
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22 Jul 2026
MATCHA, a novel regional hydroclimate-chemical reanalysis: System description and evaluation
Chayan Roychoudhury, Rajesh Kumar, Cenlin He, William Y. Y. Cheng, Kirpa Ram, Naoki Mizukami, and Avelino F. Arellano
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5209–5257, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5209-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5209-2026, 2026
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22 Jul 2026
SEAS5-BCSD: a bias-corrected and downscaled global seasonal forecast reference dataset for 1981–2024
Jan N. Weber, Christof Lorenz, Tanja C. Schober, Rebecca Wiegels, and Harald Kunstmann
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5259–5282, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5259-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5259-2026, 2026
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22 Jul 2026
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Lagoon temperature and hydrodynamics of Reao Atoll (Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia) before and during the 2024 El-Niño marine heatwave
Esther Ladet, Carla Chevillard, Romain Le Gendre, Thomas Trophime, Sébastien Petton, and Simon Van Wynsberge
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5283–5302, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5283-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5283-2026, 2026
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22 Jul 2026
Decadal ocean observations in the Northwestern Mediterranean: insights from the MOOSE-GE cruises
Laurent Coppola, Anthony Bosse, Thibaut Wagener, Dominique Lefevre, Magali Lescot, François Carlotti, Fabien Lombard, Lionel Guidi, Fabrice Not, Xavier Durrieu de Madron, Pascal Conan, Mireille Pujo-Pay, Caroline Ulses, Samuel Somot, Claude Estournel, Emilie Diamond Riquier, Céline Laus, Nathalie Leblond, Matthieu Labaste, Patrice Bretel, Melek Golbol, Stephane Kunesch, Jennifer Sola, Laure Chirurgien, Sandra Nunige, Sarah Romac, and Pierre Testor
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5303–5327, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5303-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5303-2026, 2026
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24 Jul 2026
Mapping three decades of urban growth in China: a 30 m annual building height dataset (1990–2019)
Yizhi Zhang, Yi Wang, Quanhua Dong, Xiao-Jian Chen, Fan Zhang, Xuecao Li, and Yu Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5329–5355, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5329-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5329-2026, 2026
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24 Jul 2026
A database of objectively identified atmospheric rivers based on a multi-method fusion algorithm
Hongbin Chen, Jian Rao, Seok-Woo Son, Bin Guan, and Mengxin Pan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5357–5373, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5357-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5357-2026, 2026
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24 Jul 2026
Democratizing planetary-scale analysis: an ultra-lightweight Earth embedding database for accurate and flexible global land monitoring
Shuang Chen, Jie Wang, Shuai Yuan, Jiayang Li, Yu Xia, Yuanhong Liao, Junbo Wei, Jincheng Yuan, Xiaoqing Xu, Xiaolin Zhu, Peng Zhu, Hongsheng Zhang, Yuyu Zhou, Haohuan Fu, Huabing Huang, Bin Chen, Fan Dai, and Peng Gong
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5375–5398, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5375-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5375-2026, 2026
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24 Jul 2026
A multi-method Antarctic atmospheric blocking dataset (1979–2024)
Deniz Bozkurt, Charlie Opazo, Julio C. Marín, Kyle R. Clem, Benjamin Pohl, Victoire Buffet, Vincent Favier, Tomás Carrasco-Escaff, and Bradford S. Barrett
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5399–5422, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5399-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5399-2026, 2026
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27 Jul 2026
The rainfall and erosivity database for Mexico (1968–2017)
Viviana Marcela Varón-Ramírez, Douglas Andrés Gómez-Latorre, Carlos Eduardo Arroyo-Cruz, Alberto Gómez-Tagle, Blanca Lucía Prado Pano, Ronald R. Gutierrez, Deyanira Lobo-Luján, and Mario Guevara
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5423–5462, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5423-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5423-2026, 2026
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27 Jul 2026
Climate Modes evaluation datasets from CMIP6 pre-industrial control simulations and observations
Sandeep Mohapatra, Alex Sen Gupta, Nathaniel L. Bindoff, and Yuxuan Lyu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5463–5483, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5463-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5463-2026, 2026
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27 Jul 2026
EARLS: a runoff reconstruction dataset for Europe
Daniel Klotz, Peter Miersch, Thiago V. M. do Nascimento, Fabrizio Fenicia, Corinna Frank, Martin Gauch, and Jakob Zscheischler
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5485–5504, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5485-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5485-2026, 2026
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27 Jul 2026
A pan-Arctic pigment database for phytoplankton and sea–ice algae
Asta C. Heidemann, Alexander Hayward, Philipp Assmy, Atreya Basu, Astrid Bracher, Giulia Castellani, Giacomo Ditullio, Katarzyna Dragańska-Deja, Amane Fujiwara, Glaucia Moreira Fragoso, Jacob Høyer, Jiwoon Hwang, Morten Iversen, Anabel von Jackowski, Thomas Juul-Pedersen, Piotr Kowalczuk, Youngju Lee, Maria A. van Leeuwe, Atsushi Matsuoka, Alenya Merz, Christopher John Mundy, Else Ostermann, Ilka Peeken, Matt Pinkerton, Joanna Stoń-Egiert, Jacqueline Stefels, Antonia U. Thielecke, Gaëlle Veyssiere, Hongyan Xi, Eun Jin Yang, and Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5505–5529, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5505-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5505-2026, 2026
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28 Jul 2026
A 40-year high-resolution gridded meteorological dataset derived from station observations in the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed
Andrew R. Hedrick, Brandon Stairs, C. Jason Williams, Joachim Meyer, James P. McNamara, and Patrick Kormos
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5531–5543, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5531-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5531-2026, 2026
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28 Jul 2026
The multi-temporal landslide inventory map of the Collazzone study area, central Italy
Francesca Ardizzone, Mauro Cardinali, and Federica Fiorucci
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5545–5562, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5545-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5545-2026, 2026
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29 Jul 2026
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Munition piles in the German Baltic Sea: inventory and maritime hazard perspectives
Torsten Frey, Mareike Keller, Jochen Mohrmann, Alexander Pechmann, Samar Ensenbach, and Jens Greinert
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5563–5581, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5563-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5563-2026, 2026
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29 Jul 2026
Mapping paddy rice distribution and cropping intensity in South and Southeast Asia (1995–2024) at 30 m resolution
Zizhang Zhao, Geli Zhang, Jinwei Dong, Jilin Yang, Chang Fan, Ruoqi Liu, and Xiangming Xiao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5583–5599, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5583-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5583-2026, 2026
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30 Jul 2026
Mapping complex cropping patterns in China (2018–2021) at 10 m resolution: a data-driven framework based on multi-product integration and Google satellite embedding
Xiyu Li and Le Yu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5601–5626, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5601-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5601-2026, 2026
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30 Jul 2026
A year-long eddy covariance dataset over an Alpine Steppe on the central Tibetan Plateau: a landscape perspective on carbon and energy fluxes
Nithin D. Pillai, Christian Wille, Felix Nieberding, Manuel Helbig, and Torsten Sachs
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5627–5641, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5627-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5627-2026, 2026
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31 Jul 2026
Long-term solar-induced fluorescence data record from GOME-2A and GOME-2B (2007–2023) using the SIFTER v3 algorithm
Juliëtte C. S. Anema, K. Folkert Boersma, Lieuwe G. Tilstra, Ruben van 't Loo, and Olaf N. E. Tuinder
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5643–5661, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5643-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5643-2026, 2026
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31 Jul 2026
Extended global terrestrial evapotranspiration and gross primary production dataset from 1982 to near present
Zhenwu Xu, Yongqiang Zhang, Dongdong Kong, Ning Ma, and Xuanze Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5663–5695, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5663-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5663-2026, 2026
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31 Jul 2026
Atmospheric and cryospheric observations in the high-altitude Zarafshon River Basin and the Hydrographic Party Glacier (GGP), Tajikistan, 2018–2025
Jonas Svensson, Ramazon Rakhmonov, Kamoliddin Nazirzoda, Abdusamad Hojiev, Tamlikho Jurabekov, Amirsho Hiyoev, Davlatjon Rahimzoda, Hizbullo Kholzoda, Muzaffar Shodmonov, David Brus, Viet Le, Krista Luoma, Adriano Lemos, Germán Perez Fogwill, Meri M. Ruppel, Outi Meinander, Johan Ström, Eija Asmi, and Antti Hyvärinen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5697–5712, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5697-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5697-2026, 2026
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03 Aug 2026
POPE: an annual global half degree emission inventory for PFAS 1950–2020
Pascal Simon, Martin Otto Paul Ramacher, Stefan Hagemann, Volker Matthias, Hanna Joerss, and Johannes Bieser
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5713–5737, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5713-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5713-2026, 2026
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03 Aug 2026
GLBD-FED: a global first-hand in-situ daily temperature dataset preferentially with a 00:00–24:00 UTC 24 h window (1981–2024)
Su Yang, Panmao Zhai, Xuebin Zhang, Hui Jiang, Fang Yuan, and Zijiang Zhou
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