01 Dec 2025
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models
Xiao Xiang Zhu, Sining Chen, Fahong Zhang, Yilei Shi, and Yuanyuan Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6647–6668, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025, 2025 | 86,888 views
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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 | 37,929 views
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16 Oct 2025
State of Wildfires 2024–2025
Douglas I. Kelley, Chantelle Burton, Francesca Di Giuseppe, Matthew W. Jones, Maria L. F. Barbosa, Esther Brambleby, Joe R. McNorton, Zhongwei Liu, Anna S. I. Bradley, Katie Blackford, Eleanor Burke, Andrew Ciavarella, Enza Di Tomaso, Jonathan Eden, Igor José M. Ferreira, Lukas Fiedler, Andrew J. Hartley, Theodore R. Keeping, Seppe Lampe, Anna Lombardi, Guilherme Mataveli, Yuquan Qu, Patrícia S. Silva, Fiona R. Spuler, Carmen B. Steinmann, Miguel Ángel Torres-Vázquez, Renata Veiga, Dave van Wees, Jakob B. Wessel, Emily Wright, Bibiana Bilbao, Mathieu Bourbonnais, Cong Gao, Carlos M. Di Bella, Kebonye Dintwe, Victoria M. Donovan, Sarah Harris, Elena A. Kukavskaya, Aya Brigitte N'Dri, Cristina Santín, Galia Selaya, Johan Sjöström, John T. Abatzoglou, Niels Andela, Rachel Carmenta, Emilio Chuvieco, Louis Giglio, Douglas S. Hamilton, Stijn Hantson, Sarah Meier, Mark Parrington, Mojtaba Sadegh, Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz, Fernando Sedano, Marco Turco, Guido R. van der Werf, Sander Veraverbeke, Liana O. Anderson, Hamish Clarke, Paulo M. Fernandes, and Crystal A. Kolden
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5377–5488, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5377-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5377-2025, 2025 | 30,859 views
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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 | 17,915 views
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18 Nov 2025
Bright: a globally distributed multimodal building damage assessment dataset with very-high-resolution for all-weather disaster response
Hongruixuan Chen, Jian Song, Olivier Dietrich, Clifford Broni-Bediako, Weihao Xuan, Junjue Wang, Xinlei Shao, Yimin Wei, Junshi Xia, Cuiling Lan, Konrad Schindler, and Naoto Yokoya
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6217–6253, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6217-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6217-2025, 2025 | 13,012 views
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21 Oct 2025
Annual global grided livestock mapping from 1961 to 2021
Zhenrong Du, Le Yu, Yue Zhao, Xinyue Li, Xiaoxuan Liu, Xiyu Li, Pengyu Hao, Zhongxin Chen, Zhe Guo, Liangzhi You, Xiaorui Ma, and Hongyu Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5543–5556, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5543-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5543-2025, 2025 | 12,601 views
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15 Dec 2025
An observational record of global gridded near-surface air temperature change over land and ocean from 1781
Colin P. Morice, David I. Berry, Richard C. Cornes, Kathryn Cowtan, Thomas Cropper, Ed Hawkins, John J. Kennedy, Timothy J. Osborn, Nick A. Rayner, Beatriz Recinos Rivas, Andrew P. Schurer, Michael Taylor, Praveen R. Teleti, Emily J. Wallis, Jonathan Winn, and Elizabeth C. Kent
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 7079–7100, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-7079-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-7079-2025, 2025 | 10,975 views
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10 Dec 2025
Dynamics of China's forest carbon storage: the first 30 m annual aboveground biomass mapping from 1985 to 2023
Yaotong Cai, Peng Zhu, Xing Li, Xiaoping Liu, Yuhe Chen, Qianhui Shen, Xiaocong Xu, Honghui Zhang, Sheng Nie, Cheng Wang, Jia Wang, Bingjie Li, Changjiang Wu, and Haoming Zhuang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6993–7018, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6993-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6993-2025, 2025 | 10,688 views
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21 Aug 2025
GLC_FCS10: a global 10 m land-cover dataset with a fine classification system from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time-series data in Google Earth Engine
Xiao Zhang, Liangyun Liu, Tingting Zhao, Wenhan Zhang, Linlin Guan, Ming Bai, and Xidong Chen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 4039–4062, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4039-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4039-2025, 2025 | 10,685 views
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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 | 10,648 views
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23 Sep 2025
KarstConduitCatalogue: a dataset of LiDAR derived point clouds for the analysis of karstic conduit geometry and morphology
Tanguy Racine, Celia Trunz, Julien Straubhaar, Stéphane Jaillet, and Philippe Renard
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 4671–4690, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4671-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4671-2025, 2025 | 9,381 views
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21 Jul 2025
Europe's adaptation to the energy crisis: reshaped gas supply–transmission–consumption structures and driving factors from 2022 to 2024
Chuanlong Zhou, Biqing Zhu, Antoine Halff, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Liu, Simon Bowring, Simon Ben Arous, and Philippe Ciais
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3431–3446, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3431-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3431-2025, 2025 | 8,789 views
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19 Aug 2025
An upgraded high-precision gridded precipitation dataset for the Chinese mainland considering spatial autocorrelation and covariates
Jinlong Hu, Chiyuan Miao, Jiajia Su, Qi Zhang, Jiaojiao Gou, and Qiaohong Sun
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3987–4004, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3987-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3987-2025, 2025 | 8,656 views
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11 Aug 2025
Statistical atlas of European agriculture: gridded data from the agricultural census 2020 and the spatial distribution of CAP contextual indicators
Nicolas Lampach, Jon Olav Skøien, Helena Ramos, Julien Gaffuri, Renate Koeble, Linda See, and Marijn van der Velde
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3893–3919, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3893-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3893-2025, 2025 | 8,440 views
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09 Dec 2025
Mexico's High Resolution Climate Database (MexHiResClimDB): a new daily high-resolution gridded climate dataset for Mexico covering 1951–2020
Jaime J. Carrera-Hernández
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6911–6941, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6911-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6911-2025, 2025 | 8,046 views
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20 Oct 2025
Reconstructing sea level rise from global 945 tide gauges since 1900
Dapeng Mu, Ruhui Huang, Peng Yin, Haoming Yan, and Tianhe Xu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5507–5528, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5507-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5507-2025, 2025 | 7,704 views
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30 Jul 2025
Reconstructed global monthly burned area maps from 1901 to 2020
Zhixuan Guo, Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, Stephen Sitch, Guido R. van der Werf, Simon P. K. Bowring, Ana Bastos, Florent Mouillot, Jiaying He, Minxuan Sun, Lei Zhu, Xiaomeng Du, Nan Wang, and Xiaomeng Huang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3599–3618, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3599-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3599-2025, 2025 | 7,398 views
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21 Aug 2025
The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023
Masahito Ueyama, Yuta Takao, Hiromi Yazawa, Makiko Tanaka, Hironori Yabuki, Tomo'omi Kumagai, Hiroki Iwata, Md. Abdul Awal, Mingyuan Du, Yoshinobu Harazono, Yoshiaki Hata, Takashi Hirano, Tsutom Hiura, Reiko Ide, Sachinobu Ishida, Mamoru Ishikawa, Kenzo Kitamura, Yuji Kominami, Shujiro Komiya, Ayumi Kotani, Yuta Inoue, Takashi Machimura, Kazuho Matsumoto, Yojiro Matsuura, Yasuko Mizoguchi, Shohei Murayama, Hirohiko Nagano, Taro Nakai, Tatsuro Nakaji, Ko Nakaya, Shinjiro Ohkubo, Takeshi Ohta, Keisuke Ono, Taku M. Saitoh, Ayaka Sakabe, Takanori Shimizu, Seiji Shimoda, Michiaki Sugita, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Naoya Takamura, Satoru Takanashi, Takahiro Takimoto, Yukio Yasuda, Qinxue Wang, Jun Asanuma, Hideo Hasegawa, Tetsuya Hiyama, Yoshihiro Iijima, Shigeyuki Ishidoya, Masayuki Itoh, Tomomichi Kato, Hiroaki Kondo, Yoshiko Kosugi, Tomonori Kume, Takahisa Maeda, Shoji Matsuura, Trofim Maximov, Takafumi Miyama, Ryo Moriwaki, Hiroyuki Muraoka, Roman Petrov, Jun Suzuki, Shingo Taniguchi, and Kazuhito Ichii
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3807–3833, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3807-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3807-2025, 2025 | 7,336 views
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18 Aug 2025
A new-generation internal tide model based on 30 years of satellite sea surface height measurements: multiwave decomposition and isolated beams
Zhongxiang Zhao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3949–3974, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3949-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3949-2025, 2025 | 7,271 views
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21 Jul 2025
cigChannel: a large-scale 3D seismic dataset with labeled paleochannels for advancing deep learning in seismic interpretation
Guangyu Wang, Xinming Wu, and Wen Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3447–3471, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3447-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3447-2025, 2025 | 7,128 views
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05 Sep 2025
ESA CCI Soil Moisture GAPFILLED: an independent global gap-free satellite climate data record with uncertainty estimates
Wolfgang Preimesberger, Pietro Stradiotti, and Wouter Dorigo
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 4305–4329, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4305-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4305-2025, 2025 | 6,969 views
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10 Oct 2025
The 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake building damage dataset: multi-source visual assessment
Ruben Vescovo, Bruno Adriano, Sesa Wiguna, Chia Yee Ho, Jorge Morales, Xuanyan Dong, Shin Ishii, Kazuki Wako, Yudai Ezaki, Ayumu Mizutani, Erick Mas, Satoshi Tanaka, and Shunichi Koshimura
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5259–5276, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5259-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5259-2025, 2025 | 6,938 views
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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 | 6,838 views
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27 Nov 2025
Global emissions and abundances of chemically and radiatively important trace gases from the AGAGE network
Luke M. Western, Matthew Rigby, Jens Mühle, Paul B. Krummel, Chris R. Lunder, Simon O'Doherty, Stefan Reimann, Martin K. Vollmer, Dickon Young, Ben Adam, Paul J. Fraser, Anita L. Ganesan, Christina M. Harth, Ove Hermansen, Jooil Kim, Ray L. Langenfelds, Zoë M. Loh, Blagoj Mitrevski, Joseph R. Pitt, Peter K. Salameh, Roland Schmidt, Kieran Stanley, Ann R. Stavert, Hsiang-Jui Wang, Ray F. Weiss, and Ronald G. Prinn
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6557–6582, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6557-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6557-2025, 2025 | 6,799 views
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06 Oct 2025
Capacity building enables unique near-fault observations of the destructive 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar earthquake
Ssu-Ting Lai, Kyaw Moe Oo, Yin Myo Min Htwe, Tin Yi, Htay Htay Than, Oo Than, Zaw Min, Tun Minn Oo, Phyo Maung Maung, Dino Bindi, Fabrice Cotton, Peter L. Evans, Andres Heinloo, Laura Hillmann, Joachim Saul, Christoph Sens-Schönfelder, Angelo Strollo, Frederik Tilmann, Graeme Weatherill, Ming-Hsuan Yen, Riccardo Zaccarelli, Thomas Zieke, and Claus Milkereit
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5149–5164, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5149-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5149-2025, 2025 | 6,786 views
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28 Nov 2025
Dheed: an ERA5 based global database of compound dry and hot extreme events from 1950 to 2023
Mélanie Weynants, Chaonan Ji, Nora Linscheid, Ulrich Weber, Miguel D. Mahecha, and Fabian Gans
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6621–6645, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6621-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6621-2025, 2025 | 6,708 views
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25 Nov 2025
A comparative analysis of EDGAR and UNFCCC GHG emissions inventories: insights on trends, methodology and data discrepancies
Manjola Banja, Monica Crippa, Diego Guizzardi, Marilena Muntean, Federico Pagani, and Enrico Pisoni
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6461–6486, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6461-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6461-2025, 2025 | 6,421 views
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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 | 6,416 views
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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 | 6,358 views
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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 | 6,354 views
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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 | 6,287 views
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26 Sep 2025
A large-scale image–text dataset benchmark for farmland segmentation
Chao Tao, Dandan Zhong, Weiliang Mu, Zhuofei Du, and Haiyang Wu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 4835–4864, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4835-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4835-2025, 2025 | 6,211 views
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03 Dec 2025
CropLayer: a 2 m resolution cropland map of China for 2020 from Mapbox and Google satellite imagery
Hao Jiang, Mengjun Ku, Xia Zhou, Qiong Zheng, Yangxiaoyue Liu, Jianhui Xu, Dan Li, Chongyang Wang, Jiayi Wei, Jing Zhang, Shuisen Chen, and Jianxi Huang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6703–6729, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6703-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6703-2025, 2025 | 6,142 views
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28 Oct 2025
A high-quality daily nighttime light (HDNTL) dataset for global 600+ cities (2012–2024)
Zixuan Pei, Xiaolin Zhu, Yang Hu, Jin Chen, and Xiaoyue Tan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5675–5691, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5675-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5675-2025, 2025 | 6,102 views
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04 Dec 2025
Dataset of oil slicks, look-alikes and remarkable SAR signatures obtained from Sentinel-1 data in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Yi-Jie Yang, Suman Singha, Ron Goldman, and Florian Schütte
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6807–6837, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6807-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6807-2025, 2025 | 6,041 views
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29 Aug 2025
A dataset for lake level changes in the Tibetan Plateau from 2002 and 2010 to 2021 using multi-altimeter data
Jiaming Chen, Jingjuan Liao, Shanmu Ma, Yanhan Lou, Guozhuang Shen, Lianchong Zhang, and Yanhong Wu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 4235–4252, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4235-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4235-2025, 2025 | 6,013 views
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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 | 5,913 views
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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 | 5,897 views
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04 Aug 2025
Global high-resolution fire-sourced PM2.5 concentrations for 2000–2023
Yonghang Hu, Chenguang Tian, Xu Yue, Yadong Lei, Yang Cao, Rongbin Xu, and Yuming Guo
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3741–3756, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3741-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3741-2025, 2025 | 5,897 views
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22 Jul 2025
Global agricultural lands in the year 2015
Zia Mehrabi, Kaitai Tong, Julie Fortin, Radost Stanimirova, Mark Friedl, and Navin Ramankutty
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3473–3496, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3473-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3473-2025, 2025 | 5,868 views
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01 Oct 2025
Global-PCG-10: a 10 m global map of plastic-covered greenhouses derived from Sentinel-2 in 2020
Bowen Niu, Quanlong Feng, Bingwen Qiu, Shuai Su, Xinmin Zhang, Rongji Cui, Xinhong Zhang, Fanli Sun, Wenhui Yan, Siyuan Zhao, Hanyu Shi, Cong Ou, Xiaolu Yan, Jianhua Gong, Gaofei Yin, Jianxi Huang, Jiantao Liu, Bingbo Gao, Xiaochuang Yao, Jianyu Yang, and Dehai Zhu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5065–5088, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5065-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5065-2025, 2025 | 5,820 views
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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 | 5,643 views
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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 | 5,640 views
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30 Jul 2025
Multi-temporal high-resolution data products of ecosystem structure derived from country-wide airborne laser scanning surveys of the Netherlands
Yifang Shi, Jinhu Wang, and W. Daniel Kissling
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3641–3677, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3641-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3641-2025, 2025 | 5,598 views
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19 Dec 2025
Peat-DBase v.1: a compiled database of global peat depth measurements
Jade Skye, Joe R. Melton, Colin Goldblatt, Louis Saumier, Angela Gallego-Sala, Michelle Garneau, R. Scott Winton, Erick B. Bahati, Juan C. Benavides, Lee Fedorchuk, Gérard Imani, Carol Kagaba Kairumba, Frank Kansiime, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Michel Mbasi, Daria Wochal, Sambor Czerwiński, Jacek Landowski, Joanna Landowska, Vincent Maire, Minna M. Väliranta, Matthew Warren, Lydia E. S. Cole, Marissa A. Davies, Erik A. Lilleskov, Jingjing Sun, and Yuwan Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 7313–7330, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-7313-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-7313-2025, 2025 | 5,598 views
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28 Aug 2025
An ensemble-based coupled reanalysis of the climate from 1860 to the present (CoRea1860+)
Yiguo Wang, François Counillon, Lea Svendsen, Ping-Gin Chiu, Noel Keenlyside, Patrick Laloyaux, Mariko Koseki, and Eric de Boisseson
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 4185–4211, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4185-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4185-2025, 2025 | 5,594 views
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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 | 5,583 views
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17 Nov 2025
A global reference data set for land cover mapping at 10 m resolution
Myroslava Lesiv, Steffen Fritz, Martina Dürauer, Ivelina Georgieva, Marcel Buchhorn, Luc Bertels, Nandika Tsendbazar, Ruben Van De Kerchove, Daniele Zanaga, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Linda See, Martin Herold, Bruno Smets, Michael Cherlet, Andreas Brink, and Ian McCallum
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 6149–6155, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6149-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6149-2025, 2025 | 5,468 views
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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 | 5,460 views
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05 Sep 2025
A typology of global relief classes derived from digital elevation models at 1 arcsec resolution
Xin Yang, Sijin Li, Junfei Ma, Yang Chen, Xingyu Zhou, Fayuan Li, Liyang Xiong, Chenghu Zhou, Guoan Tang, and Michael E. Meadows
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 4331–4350, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4331-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4331-2025, 2025 | 5,450 views
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