15 Apr 2021
ADHI: the African Database of Hydrometric Indices (1950–2018)
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1547–1560, 251,595 views
2021 | 15 Jul 2020
The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1561–1623, 127,425 views
2020 | 29 Aug 2012
Picophytoplankton biomass distribution in the global ocean
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 4, 37–46, 111,867 views
2012 | 24 Sep 2021
Canadian historical Snow Water Equivalent dataset (CanSWE, 1928–2020)
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4603–4619, 87,071 views
2021 | 08 Jun 2023
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 2295–2327, 86,572 views
2023 | 31 Jan 2020
ChinaCropPhen1km: a high-resolution crop phenological dataset for three staple crops in China during 2000–2015 based on leaf area index (LAI) products
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 197–214, 81,549 views
2020 | 11 Aug 2021
The 30 m annual land cover dataset and its dynamics in China from 1990 to 2019
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 3907–3925, 78,240 views
2021 | 05 Jun 2024
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 2625–2658, 64,933 views
2024 | 08 May 2013
The global carbon budget 1959–2011
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 165–185, 63,718 views
2013 | 28 Aug 2018
Global sea-level budget 1993–present
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1551–1590, 61,952 views
2018 | 07 Sep 2021
ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4349–4383, 55,093 views
2021 | 17 Apr 2023
Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 1675–1709, 54,882 views
2023 | 07 Sep 2020
Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2013–2041, 52,181 views
2020 | 12 Dec 2016
The global methane budget 2000–2012
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 697–751, 50,513 views
2016 | 26 Jan 2018
Global CO2 emissions from cement production
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 195–217, 44,804 views
2018 | 19 Jun 2025
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2641–2680, 44,676 views
2025 | 12 Sep 2017
Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 697–720, 41,342 views
2017 | 08 Feb 2021
Country-level and gridded estimates of wastewater production, collection, treatment and reuse
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 237–254, 38,206 views
2021 | 01 Dec 2017
Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 927–953, 38,053 views
2017 | 20 Nov 2019
Global CO2 emissions from cement production, 1928–2018
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1675–1710, 37,000 views
2019 | 18 Jan 2018
The Open-source Data Inventory for Anthropogenic CO2, version 2016 (ODIAC2016): a global monthly fossil fuel CO2 gridded emissions data product for tracer transport simulations and surface flux inversions
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 87–107, 36,086 views
2018 | 03 Jun 2020
Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1217–1243, 35,132 views
2020 | 08 Jul 2019
EDGAR v4.3.2 Global Atlas of the three major greenhouse gas emissions for the period 1970–2012
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 959–1002, 30,724 views
2019 | 30 Jan 2018
Gross and net land cover changes in the main plant functional types derived from the annual ESA CCI land cover maps (1992–2015)
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 219–234, 30,712 views
2018 | 20 Apr 2023
Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 1597–1616, 30,092 views
2023 | 14 Apr 2022
Pre- and post-production processes increasingly dominate greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 1795–1809, 29,384 views
2022 | 21 Feb 2013
A description of the global land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend) analysis from 1901–present
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 71–99, 29,244 views
2013 | 15 Jun 2021
GLC_FCS30: global land-cover product with fine classification system at 30 m using time-series Landsat imagery
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 2753–2776, 28,028 views
2021 | 13 Dec 2019
1 km monthly temperature and precipitation dataset for China from 1901 to 2017
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1931–1946, 27,826 views
2019 | 24 Apr 2019
The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 529–552, 26,734 views
2019 | 10 Nov 2021
A comprehensive and synthetic dataset for global, regional, and national greenhouse gas emissions by sector 1970–2018 with an extension to 2019
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 5213–5252, 26,222 views
2021 | 02 Mar 2017
Global nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use for agriculture production in the past half century: shifted hot spots and nutrient imbalance
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 181–192, 25,160 views
2017 | 29 Aug 2022
A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 3835–3873, 24,852 views
2022 | 30 Oct 2023
SinoLC-1: the first 1 m resolution national-scale land-cover map of China created with a deep learning framework and open-access data
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 4749–4780, 24,788 views
2023 | 29 Jul 2021
FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 3607–3689, 24,575 views
2021 | 18 Nov 2020
An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2959–2970, 24,276 views
2020 | 15 Jan 2013
The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database: spatially distributed datasets of soil coverage and soil carbon storage in the northern permafrost regions
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 3–13, 24,211 views
2013 |