15 Apr 2021
ADHI: the African Database of Hydrometric Indices (1950–2018)
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15 Jul 2020
The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017
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29 Aug 2012
Picophytoplankton biomass distribution in the global ocean
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 4, 37–46, 2012 | 112,276 views
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
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24 Sep 2021
Canadian historical Snow Water Equivalent dataset (CanSWE, 1928–2020)
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4603–4619, 2021 | 87,734 views
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, 2021 | 87,137 views
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, 2020 | 82,892 views
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, 2024 | 72,327 views
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, 2025 | 66,729 views
08 May 2013
The global carbon budget 1959–2011
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 165–185, 2013 | 65,050 views
07 Sep 2021
ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4349–4383, 2021 | 63,396 views
28 Aug 2018
Global sea-level budget 1993–present
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1551–1590, 2018 | 63,270 views
01 Dec 2025
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6647–6668, 2025 | 60,405 views
17 Apr 2023
Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 1675–1709, 2023 | 58,754 views
07 Sep 2020
Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2013–2041, 2020 | 54,636 views
12 Dec 2016
The global methane budget 2000–2012
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 697–751, 2016 | 52,243 views
26 Jan 2018
Global CO2 emissions from cement production
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 195–217, 2018 | 47,437 views
12 Sep 2017
Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 697–720, 2017 | 43,458 views
08 Feb 2021
Country-level and gridded estimates of wastewater production, collection, treatment and reuse
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 237–254, 2021 | 42,364 views
20 Nov 2019
Global CO2 emissions from cement production, 1928–2018
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1675–1710, 2019 | 41,610 views
01 Dec 2017
Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 927–953, 2017 | 41,340 views
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, 2018 | 37,043 views
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, 2020 | 36,382 views
20 Apr 2023
Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 1597–1616, 2023 | 35,415 views
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, 2019 | 32,603 views
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, 2018 | 31,450 views
14 Apr 2022
Pre- and post-production processes increasingly dominate greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 1795–1809, 2022 | 31,299 views
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, 2021 | 30,977 views
09 May 2025
Global Methane Budget 2000–2020
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 1873–1958, 2025 | 30,590 views
13 Dec 2019
1 km monthly temperature and precipitation dataset for China from 1901 to 2017
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1931–1946, 2019 | 30,396 views
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, 2013 | 30,227 views
11 Jun 2024
Global nitrous oxide budget (1980–2020)
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 2543–2604, 2024 | 28,508 views
24 Apr 2019
The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 529–552, 2019 | 28,324 views
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, 2021 | 28,194 views
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, 2023 | 27,729 views
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, 2022 | 27,709 views
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, 2017 | 26,411 views