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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

21 Aug 2025 The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023

The JapanFlux2024 dataset, created through collaboration across Japan and East Asia, includes eddy covariance data from 83 sites spanning 683 site-years (1990–2023). Please read more.

21 Aug 2025 The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023

The JapanFlux2024 dataset, created through collaboration across Japan and East Asia, includes eddy covariance data from 83 sites spanning 683 site-years (1990–2023). 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.

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.

Recent papers

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
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01 Oct 2025
Tracking county-level cooking emissions and their drivers in China from 1990 to 2021 with ensemble machine learning
Zeqi Li, Bin Zhao, Shengyue Li, Zhezhe Shi, Dejia Yin, Qingru Wu, Fenfen Zhang, Xiao Yun, Guanghan Huang, Yun Zhu, and Shuxiao Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5113–5135, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5113-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5113-2025, 2025
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01 Oct 2025
P-LSHv2: a multi-decadal global daily evapotranspiration dataset enhanced with explicit soil moisture constraints
Jin Feng, Ke Zhang, Lijun Chao, Huijie Zhan, and Yunping Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5039–5064, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5039-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5039-2025, 2025
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01 Oct 2025
Long-term sea surface temperature time series from Malin Head, Ireland
Sarah Daves, Guy Westbrook, Glenn Nolan, Rob Thomas, and Eoghan Daly
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-555,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-555, 2025
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: upcoming, 0 comments)
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30 Sep 2025
A 1 km Hourly High-Resolution 3D Wind Field Dataset over the Yangtze River Delta Incorporating Dynamical Downscaling, Observational Assimilation, and Land Use Updates
Zhengyan Zhang, Yan-An Liu, Xinjian Ma, Zhenglong Li, Pengbo Xu, Juan Zhang, Min Min, Di Di, Bo Li, and Jun Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-419,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-419, 2025
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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