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Chief editors: Kirsten Elger, Sibylle K. Hassler, Conrad Jackisch, Graciela Raga, François G. Schmitt, Hanqin Tian, Baptiste Vandecrux & 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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11 Jun 2026 Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: 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.

11 Jun 2026 Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: 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.

Highlight articles

03 Jul 2026
NZ-BeachTopo30: a national-scale and full-coverage 30 m beach topography dataset for New Zealand reconstructed by fusing ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2
Yuhao Wang, Hao Xu, Nan Xu, Edward Park, Xuejiao Hou, Jiayi Fang, Zhen Zhang, Yongjing Mao, Huichao Xin, Chunpeng Chen, Yinxia Cao, Yifu Ou, Xinyue Gu, Wenyu Li, Xiaojuan Liu, Conghong Huang, and Qingquan Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4563–4591, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4563-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4563-2026, 2026
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11 Jun 2026
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
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22 May 2026
Machine-learning-based estimates of global natural vegetated wetland methane emissions (2000–2025)
Mengze Li, Robert B. Jackson, Marielle Saunois, Philippe Ciais, Ben Poulter, Josep G. Canadell, Prabir K. Patra, Hanqin Tian, Zhen Zhang, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Zutao Ouyang, Ting Zhang, David J. Beerling, Dmitry A. Belikov, Philippe Bousquet, Danilo Custodio, Naveen Chandra, Xinyu Dou, Nicola Gedney, Peter O. Hopcroft, Alison M. Hoyt, Kazuhito Ichii, Akihito Ito, Atul K. Jain, Katherine Jensen, Fortunat Joos, Thomas Kleinen, Masayuki Kondo, Fa Li, Tingting Li, Xiangyu Liu, Shamil Maksyutov, Avni Malhotra, Adrien Martinez, Kyle McDonald, Joe R. Melton, Jurek Müller, Yosuke Niwa, Shufen Pan, Shushi Peng, Changhui Peng, Zhangcai Qin, Peter Raymond, William Riley, Arjo Segers, Rona L. Thompson, Aki Tsuruta, Yi Xi, Kunxiaojia Yuan, Wenxin Zhang, Bo Zheng, Qing Zhu, Qiuan Zhu, and Qianlai Zhuang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3507–3524, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3507-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3507-2026, 2026
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Recent papers

09 Jul 2026
CAMELS-FI: hydrometeorological time series and landscape properties for 320 catchments in Finland
Iiro Seppä, Carlos Gonzales Inca, Jari Uusikivi, and Petteri Alho
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4745–4769, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4745-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4745-2026, 2026
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09 Jul 2026
A physically guided deep learning reconstruction of terrestrial water storage anomalies at 0.1° across China
Xueying Li, Yan Sun, Xihui Gu, Niko Wanders, Bridget R. Scanlon, and Louise J. Slater
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-282,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-282, 2026
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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09 Jul 2026
KRILLBASE-larvae: a database of abundance of eggs and larval stages of Euphausia superba in the Southern Ocean spanning 1926–2024
Angus Atkinson, Evgeny Pakhomov, Simeon Hill, Guang Yang, Emilce Rombola, Peter Ward, Christian Reiss, Katrin Schmidt, Valentina Kasyan, Geraint Tarling, Cecilia Liszka, Emma Cavan, and Petra ten Hoopen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-450,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-450, 2026
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09 Jul 2026
SETP_GLI: An annual 10–30 m glacial lake inventory for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau from 1990 to 2025
Hao Li, Jie Dou, Timothy Kusky, Shun Dong, Zihao Shi, Jie Li, Xinjian Xiang, and Fange Ding
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-452,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-452, 2026
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09 Jul 2026
Glacial-Lake-Bench: A Global Multi-Sensor Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating Deep Learning Models for Glacial Lake Mapping
Saurabh Kaushik, Beth Tellman, Ian Howat, and Umesh Haritashya
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-474,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-474, 2026
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