Volume 18, issue 9

Volume 18, issue 9

31 Aug 2026
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Nitrous oxide and methane concentrations and air-sea fluxes in undersampled areas of the Mediterranean basin
Mercedes de la Paz, Susana Flecha, Fatima Zohra Bouthir, Milad Fahkri, Abed El Rahman Hassoun, Valeria Ibello, Korhan Özkan, Fiz F. Pérez, Adil Chair, and Iris E. Hendriks
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6207–6224, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6207-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6207-2026, 2026
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01 Sep 2026
A global 30 m disturbance-recovery age dataset for young natural and planted forests (1985–2024)
Yan Wang, Hengbin Wang, Chaoran Liang, Xiyi Li, Zhe Liu, Xiaodong Zhang, Shaoming Li, Jinming Yang, and Yuanyuan Zhao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6225–6249, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6225-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6225-2026, 2026
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01 Sep 2026
Spatial patterns of global land management intensity are influenced by socioeconomic, biophysical and behavioural factors
Ankita Saxena, Calum Brown, Karina Winkler, Almut Arneth, and Mark Rounsevell
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6251–6292, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6251-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6251-2026, 2026
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01 Sep 2026
Global surface mining and land reclamation of time series from 1985–2022
Sucheng Xu, Jiatong Zhou, Kechao Wang, Stefan Giljum, Victor Maus, Tim T. Werner, Liang Tang, Jiwang Guo, and Wu Xiao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6293–6320, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6293-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6293-2026, 2026
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03 Sep 2026
Hydrographic CTD profiles capturing the onset of near-surface stratification in Southwest Greenland fjords during two consecutive spring 2025 field campaigns
Marta Umbert, Nina Hoareau, Júlia Crespin, Maria Sánchez-Urrea, Ferran Hernández-Macià, Carolina Gabarró, and Eva De-Andrés
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6321–6343, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6321-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6321-2026, 2026
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03 Sep 2026
A new regional-scale multibeam echosounder bathymetric dataset of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea
Fabio Marchese, Marta Andrea Ezeta Watts, Megan Klein Breteler Nolan, Natalie Dunn, Katherine von Krusenstiern, Craig Foy, Mattie Rodrigue, Mohammed Qurban, Carlos Manuel Duarte, Vincent Pieribone, and Francesca Benzoni
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6345–6355, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6345-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6345-2026, 2026
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03 Sep 2026
ABCFlux v2: Arctic–boreal CO2 and CH4 monthly flux observations and ancillary information across terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
Anna-Maria Virkkala, Isabel Wargowsky, Judith Vogt, McKenzie A. Kuhn, Simran Madaan, Tiffany Windholz, Kyle A. Arndt, Gerard Rocher-Ros, Mathias Göckede, David Olefeldt, Edward A. G. Schuur, David Bastviken, Richard O'Keefe, Brendan M. Rogers, Jennifer D. Watts, Kelcy Kent, Kristoffer Aalstad, Kelly Aho, Joonatan Ala-Könni, Haley Alcock, Inge Althuizen, Christopher D. Arp, Jun Asanuma, Mika Aurela, Sivakiruthika Balathandayuthabani, Katrin Attermeyer, Alan Barr, Maialen Barret, Ochirbat Batkhishig, Christina Biasi, Mats P. Björkman, Andrew Black, Elena Blanc-Betes, Pascal Bodmer, Julia Boike, Abdullah Bolek, Frédéric Bouchard, Ingeborg Bussmann, Lea Cabrol, Eleonora Canfora, Sean Carey, Karel Castro-Morales, Namyi Chae, Andreas Christen, Torben R. Christensen, Casper T. Christiansen, Housen Chu, Graham Clark, Francois Clayer, Patrick Crill, Christopher Cunada, Scott J. Davidson, Joshua F. Dean, Sigrid Dengel, Matteo Detto, Catherine Dieleman, Florent Domine, Egor Dyukarev, Colin Edgar, Bo Elberling, Craig A. Emmerton, Eugenie Euskirchen, Grant Falvo, Thomas Friborg, Michelle Garneau, Mariasilvia Giamberini, Mikhail V. Glagolev, Miquel A. Gonzalez-Meler, Gustaf Granath, Jón Guðmundsson, Konsta Happonen, Yoshinobu Harazono, Lorna Harris, Josh Hashemi, Nicholas Hasson, Janna Heerah, Liam Heffernan, Manuel Helbig, Warren Helgason, Michal Heliasz, Greg Henry, Geert Hensgens, Tetsuya Hiyama, Beth Holmes, Macall Hock, David Holl, Jutta Holst, Thomas Holst, Gabriel Hould-Gosselin, Elyn Humphreys, Jacqueline Hung, Jussi Huotari, Hiroki Ikawa, Danil V. Ilyasov, Mamoru Ishikawa, Go Iwahana, Hiroki Iwata, Marcin Antoni Jackowicz-Korczynski, Joachim Jansen, Järvi Järveoja, Vincent E. J. Jassey, Rasmus Jensen, Katharina Jentzsch, Robert G. Jespersen, Carl-Fredrik Johannesson, Cheristy P. Jones, Anders Jonsson, Ji Young Jung, Sari Juutinen, Evan Kane, Jan Karlsson, Sergey Karsanaev, Kuno Kasak, Julia Kelly, Kasha Kempton, Marcus Klaus, George W. Kling, Natascha Kljun, Jacqueline Knutson, Hideki Kobayashi, John Kochendorfer, Kukka-Maaria Kohonen, Pasi Kolari, Mika Korkiakoski, Aino Korrensalo, Pirkko Kortelainen, Egle Koster, Kajar Koster, Ayumi Kotani, Praveena Krishnan, Juliya Kurbatova, Lars Kutzbach, Min Jung Kwon, Ethan D. Kyzivat, Jessica Lagroix, Theodore Langhorst, Elena Lapshina, Tuula Larmola, Klaus S. Larsen, Isabelle Laurion, Justin Ledman, Hanna Lee, A. Joshua Leffler, Lance Lesack, Anders Lindroth, David Lipson, Annalea Lohila, Efrén López-Blanco, Vincent L. St. Louis, Erik Lundin, Miska Luoto, Takashi Machimura, Marta Magnani, Avni Malhotra, Marja Maljanen, Ivan Mammarella, Elisa Männistö, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Phil Marsh, Pertti J. Martikainen, Maija E. Marushchak, Mikhail Mastepanov, Alex Mavrovic, Trofim Maximov, Christina Minions, Daniel F. Nadeau, Marco Montemayor, Tomoaki Morishita, Patrick Murphy, Erin Nicholls, Mats B. Nilsson, Anastasia Niyazova, Jenni Nordén, Koffi Dodji Noumonvi, Hannu Nykänen, Walter Oechel, Anne Ojala, Tomohiro Okadera, Sujan Pal, Alexey V. Panov, Tim Papakyriakou, Dario Papale, Sang-Jong Park, Frans-Jan W. Parmentier, Gilberto Pastorello, Mike Peacock, Matthias Peichl, Roman Petrov, Kyra St. Pierre, Norbert Pirk, Jessica Plein, Vilmantas Preskienis, Anatoly Prokushkin, Jukka Pumpanen, Hilary A. Rains, Niklas Rakos, Aleksi Räsänen, Helena Rautakoski, Riikka Rinnan, Janne Rinne, Adrian Rocha, Nigel Roulet, Alexandre Roy, Anna Rutgersson, Aleksandr F. Sabrekov, Torsten Sachs, Erik Sahlée, Alejandro Salazar, Henrique Oliveira Sawakuchi, Christopher Schulze, Roger Seco, Armando Sepulveda-Jauregui, Svetlana Serikova, Abbey Serrone, Hanna M. Silvennoinen, Sofie Sjogersten, June Skeeter, Jo Snöälv, Sebastian Sobek, Oliver Sonnentag, Emily H. Stanley, Maria Strack, Lena Strom, Patrick Sullivan, Ryan Sullivan, Anna Sytiuk, Torbern Tagesson, Pierre Taillardat, Julie Talbot, Suzanne E. Tank, Mario Tenuta, Irina Terenteva, Frederic Thalasso, Antoine Thiboult, Halldor Thorgeirsson, Fenix Garcia Tigreros, Margaret Torn, Amy Townsend-Small, Claire Treat, Alain Tremblay, Carlo Trotta, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, Merritt Turetsky, Masahito Ueyama, Muhammad Umair, Aki Vähä, Lona van Delden, Maarten van Hardenbroek, Andrej Varlagin, Ruth K. Varner, Tarmo Virtanen, Elena Veretennikova, Timo Vesala, Carolina Voigt, Jorien E. Vonk, Robert Wagner, Katey Walter Anthony, Qinxue Wang, Masataka Watanabe, Hailey Webb, Jeffrey M. Welker, Andreas Westergaard-Nielsen, Sebastian Westermann, Jeffrey R. White, Christian Wille, Scott N. Williamson, Scott Zolkos, Donatella Zona, and Susan M. Natali
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6357–6409, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6357-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6357-2026, 2026
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03 Sep 2026
A high-resolution air-sea synoptic observation dataset from drifting buoys in the Bay of Bengal
Wei Huang, Guihua Wang, Changlin Chen, Gengxin Chen, and Weiqiang Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6411–6419, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6411-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6411-2026, 2026
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04 Sep 2026
A Global Surface Turbulence Heat Flux Dataset resolving tropical cyclones
Weixiang Peng, Zhanhong Ma, Deyuan Zhang, Hexin Ye, and Jianfang Fei
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6421–6433, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6421-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6421-2026, 2026
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04 Sep 2026
A gridded dataset of European Forest Types to support forest monitoring, modelling and reporting
Francesca Giannetti, Ilaria Zorzi, Stefanie Linser, Mathias Neumann, Sorin Cheval, Alessio Collalti, Elia Vangi, Elisa Grieco, Mauro Morichetti, Giovanni D'Amico, Nicu Constantin Tudose, Alice Ludvig, Livia Passarino, Jessica Scriva, Yamuna Giambastiani, Irene Fattoretto, Giuliano Secchi, Davide Travaglini, Gherardo Chirici, Piermaria Corona, Marco Marchetti, and Anna Barbati
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6435–6463, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6435-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6435-2026, 2026
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04 Sep 2026
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GloPINE dataset: model-ready measurements of INP concentrations using PINE instruments
Ross J. Herbert, Larissa Lacher, Alexander Böhmländer, Mark D. Tarn, Antoine Canzi, Aidan Pantoya, Evelyn Freney, Kristina Höhler, Pia Bogert, Céline Planche, Ping Tian, Michael Adams, Sarah Barr, David Brus, Nicole Büttner, Martin Daily, Konstantinos Doulgeris, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Grant Forster, Romy Fösig, Dimitrios G. Georgakopoulos, Maria I. Gini, A. Gannet Hallar, Radovan Krejci, Elke Ludewig, Mauro Mazzola, Ian B. McCubbin, Athanasios Nenes, Tuukka Petäjä, Joseph Robinson, Franziska Vogel, Paul Zieger, Stephen Arnold, Kenneth S. Carslaw, Naruki Hiranuma, Ottmar Möhler, and Benjamin J. Murray
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6465–6483, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6465-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6465-2026, 2026
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07 Sep 2026
C-PEAT's Global Peatland Carbon Database (v.2025)
Julie Loisel, Angela Gallego-Sala, Daniela Ransby, Emily Rabel, Cornelia Behrens, Stefanie Schumacher, Kathe Todd-Brown, Vaasuki Marupaka, and C-PEAT Working Group Members
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6485–6502, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6485-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6485-2026, 2026
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07 Sep 2026
An AI-driven reconstruction of global surface temperature with emphasis on refining the Antarctic record
Chenxi Ouyang, Qingxiang Li, Zichen Li, and Sihao Wei
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6503–6526, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6503-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6503-2026, 2026
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08 Sep 2026
Long-term temperature, oxygen and water clarity trends in Swiss lakes
Fabian Bärenbold, Camilla Capelli, Lukas De Ventura, Stefanie Eyring, Elise Folly, Nicole Gallina, Barbara Känel, Peter Keller, Oliver Köster, Fabio Lepori, Robert Lovas, Michela Rogora, David J. Janssen, Damien Bouffard, and Martin Schmid
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6527–6544, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6527-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6527-2026, 2026
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08 Sep 2026
Building a dataset of offshore oil and gas extraction platforms from satellite data (2017–2023)
Lulu Si, Shanyu Zhou, Itziar Irakulis-Loitxate, Javier Roger, and Luis Guanter
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6545–6564, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6545-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6545-2026, 2026
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09 Sep 2026
Satellite-based inversion of global methane fluxes: capabilities and implications of GOSAT-2 measurements
Makoto Saito, Yosuke Niwa, Yukio Yoshida, Hiroshi Suto, Kei Shiomi, Akihide Kamei, Fumie Kataoka, Isamu Morino, Hibiki M. Noda, Hirofumi Ohyama, Tazu Saeki, Yu Someya, Hisashi Yashiro, and Tsuneo Matsunaga
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6565–6588, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6565-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6565-2026, 2026
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09 Sep 2026
Global satellite gravity data products for prompt detection of short-term Mass Change (MC)
Miao Tang, Shin-Chan Han, In-Young Yeo, Mehdi Khaki, Thomas Loudis Papanikolaou, and Xinghai Yang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6589–6611, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6589-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6589-2026, 2026
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09 Sep 2026
EGO: a global 0.05° hourly GPP dataset for monitoring diurnal photosynthesis dynamics
Xi Liu, Xing Li, Dalei Hao, Jingfeng Xiao, Yanan Zhou, Cenliang Zhao, Zikang Diao, Fuqiang Qu, Shangrong Lin, Xiangzhuo Liu, Zhaoying Zhang, Xinjie Liu, and Helin Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6613–6636, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6613-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6613-2026, 2026
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09 Sep 2026
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A global hourly ISIMIP3 climate forcing dataset for impact modeling
Michel Bechtold, Benjamin Poschlod, Christian Otto, Jan Volkholz, Matthias Büchner, and Florian Zabel
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6637–6648, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6637-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6637-2026, 2026
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10 Sep 2026
Circum-Arctic Sediment PROvenance Database (CASPROD): a database of mineralogy and geochemistry for the Circum-Arctic surface sediments
Zhengquan Yao, Han Feng, Ruediger Stein, Yanguang Liu, Xuefa Shi, Yuri Vasilenko, Seung-Il Nam, Linsen Dong, Fengdeng Shi, Kunshan Wang, Zhihua Chen, Shuqing Qiao, Qiuling Li, Song Zhao, Xinyue Pei, Huiyu Guo, and Yaru Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6649–6665, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6649-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6649-2026, 2026
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10 Sep 2026
A 19-year record of atmospheric sulphur dioxide (SO2) derived from IASI measurements
Lieven Clarisse, Bruno Franco, Lorenzo Fabris, Nicolas Theys, Juliette Hadji-Lazaro, Daniel Hurtmans, Cathy Clerbaux, and Pierre Coheur
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6667–6706, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6667-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6667-2026, 2026
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11 Sep 2026
A benchmark dataset for half-hourly evapotranspiration estimation in China from 2000 to 2024
Long Qian, Xingjiao Yu, Lifeng Wu, Yaokui Cui, Zhitao Zhang, Junying Chen, Sumeng Ye, Xuqian Bai, Xiaogang Liu, Sien Li, and Rangjian Qiu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6707–6740, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6707-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6707-2026, 2026
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11 Sep 2026
Global and national lime process emissions and carbonation sink from 1930 to 2024
Longfei Bing, Xiaoyu Zhang, Le Niu, Zhi Cao, Jiaoyue Wang, Jiajie Li, Xue Jiang, and Fengming Xi
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6741–6762, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6741-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6741-2026, 2026
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14 Sep 2026
TPHH: a long-term (1901–2023) high-resolution (1∕30°) near-surface humidity dataset for the Tibetan Plateau generated via spatial downscaling based on hybrid-structure deep learning
Zheng Jin, Zezhou Chen, Qinglong You, Zhaoxiang Liu, Jintao Zhang, Huan Hu, Ping Chen, Xiang Liu, Zipeng Wang, Kai Wang, Shiguo Lian, and Shichang Kang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6763–6781, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6763-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6763-2026, 2026
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15 Sep 2026
A Global Database of Soil Methane Uptake (SMUD)
Jiawei Jiang, Zhifeng Yan, Jinshi Jian, Jesper Riis Christiansen, Xinchu Wang, Ren-Min Yang, Zhen Zhang, and Philippe Ciais
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6783–6797, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6783-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6783-2026, 2026
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15 Sep 2026
FAO estimates of net forest emissions and removals, 1990–2025
Francesco N. Tubiello, Anne Branthomme, Griffiths Obli-Laryea, Michelle Piccoli, Nidal Ramadan, Rocio Danica Condor, Nathan Wanner, Rachele Brivio, Örjan Jonsson, Giulia Conchedda, and Anssi Pekkarinen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6799–6813, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6799-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6799-2026, 2026
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15 Sep 2026
OceanTACO: a multi-sensor global ocean sea surface state dataset
Nils Lehmann, Cesar Aybar, Ando Shah, Marcello Passaro, Jonathan L. Bamber, and Xiao Xiang Zhu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6815–6840, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6815-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6815-2026, 2026
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16 Sep 2026
A global gridded dataset of significant wave height via fusion of multi-mission altimetry and numerical hindcast
Haoyu Jiang and Hao Su
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6841–6858, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6841-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6841-2026, 2026
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16 Sep 2026
Signal-domain guided deep learning for gap-filling of XCO and XCH4: a masked spatio-temporal fusion of TROPOMI and GEOS-Chem (2019–2023)
Chengkun An, Yuan Tian, Zhiwei Li, Qiaoyu Jiang, Peize Lin, Bowen Chang, Jingkai Xue, and Youwen Sun
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6859–6884, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6859-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6859-2026, 2026
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16 Sep 2026
GloSVeT: a global 0.05° monthly mean surface soil and vegetation component temperature dataset (2003–2023)
Xiangyang Liu, Zhao-Liang Li, Chen Ru, Si-Bo Duan, and Pei Leng
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 6885–6911, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6885-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6885-2026, 2026
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