Editorial board

Editors of this journal work on a purely voluntary basis without remuneration. This secures the freedom of taking editorial decisions purely based on scientific quality assurance without any interference with the economic interests an open-access publisher might have.
Chief executive editor

Kirsten Elger

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Library and Information Services
Germany

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ESSD – Land
Senior chief editor

David Carlson

United States
Chief editors

Ken Mankoff

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
United States

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ESSD – Ice

Giuseppe M.R. Manzella

OceanHIs SrL
Italy

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ESSD – Ocean

Hanqin Tian

Boston College
Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
United States

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Yuyu Zhou

Iowa State University
United States

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ESSD – Global
Editorial manager

Johannes Wagner

Copernicus Publications
Germany
Topical editors

Charles Amory

Univ. Grenoble Alpes
Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement
France

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ESSD – Ice

Clio Andris

Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Design
City & Regional Planning
United States

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Jan Beutel

University of Innsbruck
Department of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Austria

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Achim A. Beylich

Geomorphological Field Laboratory (GFL)
Norway

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David Carlson

United States

Chris DeBeer

University of Saskatchewan
Centre for Hydrology and Global Institute for Water Security
Canada

Niccolò Dematteis

Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council of Italy
Italy

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Attila Demény

MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
Hungary

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Kirsten Elger

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Library and Information Services
Germany

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ESSD – Land

Kuishuang Feng

University of Maryland
Geographical Sciences
United States

Dirk Fleischer

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
University and State Library
Research Data Competence Center
Germany

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Alexander Fraser

Australian Antarctic Program Partnership
Sea ice
Australia

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Alexander Gelfan

Water Problems Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation

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Tobias Gerken

James Madison University
School of Integrated Sciences
United States

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Hannes Grobe

Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)
Geoscience
Germany

Alexander Gruber

Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation
Austria

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ESSD – Land

Lukas Gudmundsson

ETH Zurich
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Switzerland

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ESSD – Atmosphere
ESSD – Global
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Dagmar Hainbucher

University Hamburg
Institute of Oceanography
Earth System Science
Germany

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Dalei Hao

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
United States

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Sibylle K. Hassler

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research / Institute of Water Resources and River Basin Management
Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing / Chair of Hydrology
Germany

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Petra Heil

Australian Antarctic Division & University of Tasmania
Australian Antarctic Programme Partnership
Australia

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Birgit Heim

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems
Germany

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Guanyu Huang

Spelman College
Environmental and Health Sciences
United States

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Iolanda Ialongo

Finnish Meteorological Institute
SPACE AND EARTH OBSERVATION CENTRE
Finland

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Giulio G.R. Iovine

CNR-IRPI
Section of Cosenza
Italy

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Conrad Jackisch

TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Faculty of Geosciences, Geoengineering and Mining
Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre
Germany

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Alexander Kokhanovsky

German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 1.4: Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics
Germany

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Qingxiang Li

Sun Yat-sen University
School of Atmospheric Sciences
China

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Xuecao Li

China Agricultural University
College of Land Science and Technology
China

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Heming Liao

Microsoft Corporation
United States

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Katrin Lindbäck

Mid Sweden University
Sweden

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Christof Lorenz

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research
Germany

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Chaoqun Lu

Iowa State University
United States

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Ken Mankoff

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
United States

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ESSD – Ice

Giuseppe M.R. Manzella

OceanHIs SrL
Italy

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Salvatore Marullo

ENEA
Climate and Modelling Laboratory
Italy

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Luis Millan

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
United States

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Christopher Neigh

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
United States

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Andrea Popp

SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute)
Hydrological Research Unit
Sweden

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Yue Qin

Peking University
College of Environmental Science and Engineering
China

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Alberto Ribotti

IAS-CNR
Operational Oceanography Group
Italy

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Alessio Rovere

Ca' Foscari University of Venice
DAIS
Italy

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Andrea Rovida

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Milano
Italy

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Nophea Sasaki

Asian Institute of Technology
Natural Resources Management
Thailand

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François G. Schmitt

CNRS, Lab. Oceanology and Geosciences UMR 8187
Laboratory of Oceanology and Geosciences
France

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Martin Schultz

Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Germany

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ESSD – Global

Hao Shi

Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

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Simona Simoncelli

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Bologna
Italy

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James Thornton

University of Bern
Mountain Research Initiative
Switzerland

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Di Tian

Auburn University
United States

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Hanqin Tian

Boston College
Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
United States

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Francesco N. Tubiello

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Statistics
Italy

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Baptiste Vandecrux

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Glaciology and Climate
Denmark

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Georg Veh

University of Potsdam
Environmental Science and Geography
Geohazards
Germany

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Anton Velo

IIM-CSIC
Oceanology
Spain

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Sander Veraverbeke

Nederland
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Faculty of Science
Netherlands

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ESSD – Ice
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Xingchen (Tony) Wang

Boston College
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
United States

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Jing Wei

University of Maryland
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
United States

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Jia Yang

Oklahoma State University
Natural Resource Ecology and Management
United States

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Kang Yang

Nanjing University
School of Geography and Ocean Science
China

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Yuanzhi Yao

East China Normal University
School of Geographic Sciences
Geographic Information Science
China

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Zhen Yu

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
School of Applied Meteorology
China

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ESSD – Land

Yuqiang Zhang

Shandong University
Environment Research Institute
China

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Kaiguang Zhao

The Ohio State University
School of Environment and Natural Resources
United States

Bo Zheng

Tsinghua University
Institute of Environment and Ecology
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School
China

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ESSD – Atmosphere
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Chunlüe Zhou

University of Gothenburg
Faculty of Science
Department of Earth Sciences
Sweden

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ESSD – Atmosphere
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Yuyu Zhou

Iowa State University
United States

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Editors on leave

Nellie Elguindi

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Laboratoire d'Aérologie
France
Advisory board members

Alexander Petrovich Lisitzin

Russian Academy of Sciences
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Russian Federation

Hans Pfeiffenberger

Retired from Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research
Germany