Volume 18, issue 3

Volume 18, issue 3

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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