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. The ESSD editorial manager, being a staff member of Copernicus Publications, does not take any editorial decisions.
Chief executive editor

Kirsten Elger

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Germany

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Chief editors

Ken Mankoff

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
United States

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ESSD – Cryosphere

Graciela Raga

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico

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ESSD – Atmosphere

François G. Schmitt

CNRS
Laboratory of Oceanology and Geosciences
France

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ESSD – Ocean

Hanqin Tian

Boston College
Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
United States

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Yuyu Zhou

The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

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Editorial manager

Johannes Wagner

Copernicus Publications
Germany
Topic editors

Charles Amory

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

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Achim A. Beylich

Geomorphological Field Laboratory (GFL)
Norway

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ESSD – Geosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Zihao Bian

Nanjing Normal University
School of Geography
China

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ESSD – Hydrosphere

Davide Bonaldo

National Research Council, Institute of Marine Sciences, CNR-ISMAR
Italy

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ESSD – Hydrosphere
ESSD – Ocean

Guillaume Charria

Ifremer
LOPS
France

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Montserrat Costa Surós

Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Earth Sciences
Spain

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Chris DeBeer

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

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ESSD – Hydrosphere

Niccolò Dematteis

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

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ESSD – Geosphere

Attila Demény

HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research
Hungary

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ESSD – Geosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere
ESSD – Ocean

Clare Eayrs

Korea Polar Research Institute
Division of Glacial Environment Research
Korea, Republic Of

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ESSD – Cryosphere

Kirsten Elger

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Germany

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ESSD – Geosphere

Dirk Fleischer

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

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ESSD – Biosphere
ESSD – Ocean

Alexander Fraser

Australian Antarctic Program Partnership
Sea ice
Australia

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ESSD – Cryosphere

Frédéric Gazeau

Sorbonne université
LOV Laboratoire océanographie de Villefranche
France

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Alexander Gelfan

Water Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Israel

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Tobias Gerken

James Madison University
School of Integrated Sciences
United States

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Alexander Gruber

Technische Universität Wien
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation
Austria

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ESSD – Atmosphere
ESSD – Biosphere
ESSD – Geosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Lukas Gudmundsson

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

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ESSD – Atmosphere
ESSD – Land

Dagmar Hainbucher

University Hamburg
Institute of Oceanography
Earth System Science
Germany

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Dalei Hao

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division
United States

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ESSD – Biosphere
ESSD – Cryosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

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 & Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Australian Antarctic Programme Partnership & Snow and Avalanche Research Institute
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

Stony Brook University
Program in Public Health, and School of Marine and Atmospheric 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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ESSD – Geosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Conrad Jackisch

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

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ESSD – Biosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Robert Jackisch

TU Berlin
ILAUP
Geoinformation in Environmental Planning
Germany

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ESSD – Biosphere
ESSD – Geosphere

Alexander Kokhanovsky

Marburg University
Department of Geography
Germany

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ESSD – Cryosphere

Andrea Lammert

Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH
Data management
Germany

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Qingxiang Li

Sun Yat-sen University
School of Atmospheric Sciences
China

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Xuecao Li

China Agricultural University
College of Land Science and Technology
China

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ESSD – Biosphere

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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ESSD – Hydrosphere

Han Ma

The University of Hong Kong
Department of Geography
China

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Marc Daniel Mallet

University of Tasmania
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
Australia

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Ken Mankoff

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
United States

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Benjamin Männel

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Geodesy
Germany

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ESSD – Geosphere

Jiafu Mao

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Environmental Sciences Division
United States

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ESSD – Biosphere

Salvatore Marullo

Retired from CNR
ISMAR
Italy

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ESSD – Ocean

Fan Mei

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate
United States

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Luis Millan

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
United States

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Carlos Morales

University of São Paulo - USP
Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science - IAG
Department of Atmospheric Science
Brazil

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Christopher Neigh

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
United States

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ESSD – Biosphere

Sebastiano Piccolroaz

University of Trento
Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering
Italy

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ESSD – Ocean

Andrea Popp

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

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ESSD – Hydrosphere

Yue Qin

Peking University
College of Environmental Science and Engineering
China

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ESSD – Anthroposphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Graciela Raga

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

North Carolina State University
Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies
North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
United States

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ESSD – Atmosphere
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Alberto Ribotti

CNR-IAS
Operational Oceanography Group
Italy

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Alessio Rovere

Ca'Foscari University of Venice
Italy

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ESSD – Geosphere

Andrea Rovida

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Milano
Italy

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ESSD – Geosphere

Marta Rufino

Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere
Division of Modelling and Management of Fisheries Resources
Portugal

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ESSD – Ocean

Nophea Sasaki

Sasin School of Management
ESG and Sustainability
Thailand

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ESSD – Anthroposphere
ESSD – Biosphere

Sabine Schmidt

OASU / CNRS
UMR5805
France

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François G. Schmitt

CNRS
Laboratory of Oceanology and Geosciences
France

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ESSD – Ocean

Hao Shi

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

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ESSD – Hydrosphere

Martina Stockhause

IPCC Data Distribution Centre (DDC)
Germany

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James Thornton

Switzerland

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ESSD – Hydrosphere

Hanqin Tian

Boston College
Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
United States

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Di Tian

Auburn University
United States

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Désirée Treichler

University of Oslo
Department of Geosciences
Norway

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Francesco N. Tubiello

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Statistics
Italy

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ESSD – Biosphere

Baptiste Vandecrux

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Glaciology and Climate
Denmark

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ESSD – Atmosphere
ESSD – Cryosphere

Sebastiaan van de Velde

University of Otago
Marine Science
New Zealand

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ESSD – Ocean

Bastiaan van Diedenhoven

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Earth Science Division
Netherlands

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Georg Veh

University of Potsdam
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography
Germany

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ESSD – Cryosphere
ESSD – Geosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Anton Velo

IIM-CSIC
Oceanic Processes in Global Change
Spain

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ESSD – Ocean

Sander Veraverbeke

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands

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ESSD – Atmosphere
ESSD – Cryosphere
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Christine I. B. Wallis

Technische Universität Berlin
Science
Germany

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ESSD – Biosphere

Xingchen (Tony) Wang

Boston College
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
United States

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ESSD – Geosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere
ESSD – Ocean

Jing Wei

Peking University
College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
China

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ESSD – Atmosphere
ESSD – Geosphere

Martin Wild

ETH Zurich
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Switzerland

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Kang Yang

Nanjing University
School of Geography and Ocean Science
China

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ESSD – Cryosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Jia Yang

Oklahoma State University
Natural Resource Ecology and Management
United States

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ESSD – Atmosphere
ESSD – Biosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Yun Yang

Cornell University
Soil and Crop Sciences
United States

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ESSD – Hydrosphere

Yuanzhi Yao

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

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ESSD – Biosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Yufang Ye

Sun Yat-sen University
School of Geospatial Engineering and Science
China

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ESSD – Cryosphere

Zhen Yu

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

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ESSD – Anthroposphere
ESSD – Biosphere

Yuqiang Zhang

Shandong University
Environment Research Institute
China

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ESSD – Anthroposphere
ESSD – Atmosphere

Kaiguang Zhao

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

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ESSD – Biosphere
ESSD – Hydrosphere

Bo Zheng

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

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ESSD – Atmosphere
ESSD – Biosphere

Yuyu Zhou

The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

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ESSD – Anthroposphere

Chunlüe Zhou

Sun Yat-sen University
School of Geography and Planning
China

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ESSD – Atmosphere

Peng Zhu

The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

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Editors on leave

Jan Beutel

University of Innsbruck
Networked Embedded Sensing Center
Department of Computer Science
Austria

Nellie Elguindi

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Laboratoire d'Aérologie
France

Simona Simoncelli

Italy
Advisory board members

David Carlson

United States

Alexander Petrovich Lisitzin

Russian Academy of Sciences
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Russian Federation

Giuseppe M.R. Manzella

OceanHIs SrL
Italy

Hans Pfeiffenberger

Germany