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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

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.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

Recent papers

23 Jun 2025
CAMELS-COL: A Large-Sample Hydrometeorological Dataset for Colombia
David A. Jimenez, Julian E. Meneses, Pedro H. Bernardes Solha, Alvaro Avila-Diaz, Benjamin Quesada, Bruno Melo Brentan, and André Ferreira Rodrigues
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-200,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-200, 2025
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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23 Jun 2025
Data Processing Strategies for Marine Gravity Using Gravity Anomalies and Gravity Disturbances: A Case Study in the Southern Baltic Sea Region
Krzysztof Pyrchla, Gabriel Strykowski, Kamil Łapiński, Jonathan Kirby, and Jerzy Pyrchla
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-204,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-204, 2025
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23 Jun 2025
A comprehensive 22-year global GNSS climate data record from 5085 stations
Xiaoming Wang, Haobo Li, Suelynn Choy, Qiuying Huang, Wenhui Cai, Anthony Rea, Hongxin Zhang, Luis Elneser, and Yuriy Kuleshov
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-283,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-283, 2025
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: upcoming, 0 comments)
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20 Jun 2025
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records
Lianjun Yang, Taoyong Jin, and Weiping Jiang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2793–2807, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2793-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2793-2025, 2025
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19 Jun 2025
Quantitative imaging datasets of surface micro- to mesoplankton communities and microplastic across the Pacific and North Atlantic oceans from the Tara Pacific expedition
Zoé Mériguet, Guillaume Bourdin, Nathaniel Kristan, Laetitia Jalabert, Olivier Bun, Marc Picheral, Louis Caray-Counil, Juliette Maury, Maria-Luiza Pedrotti, Amanda Elineau, David A. Paz-Garcia, Lee Karp-Boss, Gaby Gorsky, Fabien Lombard, and the Tara Pacific Consortium Coordinators team
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2761–2792, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2761-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2761-2025, 2025
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Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.