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02 Apr 2026
Australia's terrestrial industrial footprint and ecological intactness
The authors developed two datasets representing human industrial pressures and ecological intactness across Australia's landscapes. These datasets fill a long-standing gap in national-scale pressure mapping, providing key insights into human disturbance of the environment. Please read more. 
02 Apr 2026
Australia's terrestrial industrial footprint and ecological intactness
The authors developed two datasets representing human industrial pressures and ecological intactness across Australia's landscapes. These datasets fill a long-standing gap in national-scale pressure mapping, providing key insights into human disturbance of the environment. Please read more.
03 Dec 2025
New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation
The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.
03 Dec 2025
New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation
The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.
17 Apr 2026
A high-resolution tropopause folding dataset over China from 2014–2023
Yujia Yang, Le Cao, Liqiang Xu, Mengke Wang, Qingjian Yang, Yuqing Zhang, Tianqi Zhang, Xiuli Lei, Jiangpeng Miao, and Tianliang Zhao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2689–2702, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2689-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2689-2026, 2026
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17 Apr 2026
TPHH: A long-term (1901–2023) high-resolution (1/30°) near-surface humidity dataset for the Tibetan Plateau generated via spatial downscaling based on hybrid-structure deep learning
Zheng Jin, Zezhou Chen, Qinglong You, Zhaoxiang Liu, Jintao Zhang, Huan Hu, Ping Chen, Xiang Liu, Zipeng Wang, Kai Wang, Shiguo Lian, and Shichang Kang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-180,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-180, 2026
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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17 Apr 2026
The Named Storms Catalogue: unlocking learnings from past events
Paula L. M. Gonzalez, Duncan Ackerley, Eloise Matthews, Dan Suri, Emily Wallace, Matthew Wheeler, Jason A. Lowe, and Daisy Harley-Nyang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-181,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-181, 2026
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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16 Apr 2026
A dataset on the structural diversity of European forests
Marco Girardello, Gonzalo Oton, Matteo Piccardo, Mark Pickering, Agata Elia, Guido Ceccherini, Mariano Garcia, Mirco Migliavacca, and Alessandro Cescatti
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2667–2687, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2667-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2667-2026, 2026
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