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Chief editors: Kirsten Elger, Ken Mankoff, Graciela Raga, François G. Schmitt, Hanqin Tian & Yuyu Zhou
eISSN: ESSD 1866-3516, ESSDD 1866-3591

Earth System Science Data (ESSD) is an international, interdisciplinary journal for the publication of articles on original research data (sets), furthering the reuse of high-quality data of benefit to Earth system sciences. The editors encourage submissions on original data or data collections which are of sufficient quality and have potential to contribute to these aims. The journal maintains sections for regular-length articles, brief communications (e.g. on additions to data sets) and commentaries, as well as review articles and special issues.

This short commentary draws on ESSD author, reviewer and editor experiences over its first 10 years of operation to define guidelines, requirements and benefits of the ESSD processes.

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News

19 Jun 2025 Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

ESSD announces the publication of an update to IPCC's most recent assessment. Please read more.

19 Jun 2025 Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

ESSD announces the publication of an update to IPCC's most recent assessment. Please read more.

14 Mar 2025 Global Carbon Budget 2024

A group of more than 100 researchers from more than 15 countries compiled and documented an annual global carbon budget covering sources and sinks. The results were published today in ESSD.

14 Mar 2025 Global Carbon Budget 2024

A group of more than 100 researchers from more than 15 countries compiled and documented an annual global carbon budget covering sources and sinks. The results were published today in ESSD.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

Recent papers

05 Aug 2025
Biologically effective daily radiant exposure for erythema appearance, previtamin D3 synthesis, and clearing of psoriatic lesions derived from erythemal broadband meters at Belsk, Poland, for the period 1976–2023
Janusz W. Krzyścin, Agnieszka Czerwińska, Bonawentura Rajewska-Więch, Janusz Jarosławski, Piotr S. Sobolewski, and Izabela Pawlak
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3757–3775, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3757-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3757-2025, 2025
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05 Aug 2025
The first rainfall erosivity database in Mexico: facing challenges of leveraging legacy climate data
Viviana Marcela Varón-Ramírez, Douglas Andrés Gómez-Latorre, Carlos Eduardo Arroyo-Cruz, Alberto Gómez-Tagle, Blanca Lucía Prado Pano, Ronald Roger Gutierrez Llantoy, Deyanira Lobo-Luján, and Mario Guevara
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-306,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-306, 2025
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Aug 2025
A derecho climatology (2004–2021) in the United States based on machine learning identification of bow echoes
Jianfeng Li, Andrew Geiss, Zhe Feng, L. Ruby Leung, Yun Qian, and Wenjun Cui
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3721–3740, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3721-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3721-2025, 2025
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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
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04 Aug 2025
Insights into Lake Baikal Radiocarbon Age Offsets from a Database of AMS Radiocarbon Age Estimates
Samuel R. S. Newall, Anson W. Mackay, Natalia Piotrowska, and Maarten Blaauw
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-109,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-109, 2025
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.