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
Chief editors

Ken Mankoff

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
United States

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Graciela Raga

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico

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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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ESSD – Ice

Clio Andris

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

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Achim A. Beylich

Geomorphological Field Laboratory (GFL)
Norway

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Zihao Bian

Nanjing Normal University
School of Geography
China

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Davide Bonaldo

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

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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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Niccolò Dematteis

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

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Attila Demény

Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research
Hungary

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Clare Eayrs

Korea Polar Research Institute
Korea, Republic Of

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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

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ESSD – Global

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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Frédéric Gazeau

Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche (CNRS-SU, UMR 7093
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

TU Wien
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation
Austria

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Lukas Gudmundsson

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

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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, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division
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 & 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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Iolanda Ialongo

Finnish Meteorological Institute
SPACE AND EARTH OBSERVATION CENTRE
Finland

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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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Han Ma

The University of Hong Kong
Department of Geography
China

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ESSD – Global
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Marc Daniel Mallet

University of Tasmania
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
Australia

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Ken Mankoff

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
United States

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Benjamin Männel

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Geodesy
Germany

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Jiafu Mao

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Environmental Sciences Division
United States

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Salvatore Marullo

Retired from CNR
Climate and Modelling Laboratory
Italy

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Fan Mei

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate
United States

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Luis Millan

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
United States

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Carlos Morales

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

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Christopher Neigh

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
United States

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Sebastiano Piccolroaz

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

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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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Graciela Raga

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico

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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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Alberto Ribotti

IAS-CNR
Operational Oceanography Group
Italy

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Alessio Rovere

Ca' Foscari University of Venice
DAIS
DAIS
Italy

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Andrea Rovida

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Milano
Italy

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Marta Rufino

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

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Nophea Sasaki

Asian Institute of Technology
Natural Resources Management
Thailand

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Sabine Schmidt

OASU / CNRS
UMR5805
France

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François G. Schmitt

CNRS
Laboratory of Oceanology and Geosciences
France

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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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Martina Stockhause

German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ)
IPCC Data Distribution Centre (DDC)
Germany

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James Thornton

University of Bern
Mountain Research Initiative
Switzerland

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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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Baptiste Vandecrux

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Glaciology and Climate
Denmark

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Sebastiaan van de Velde

University of Otago
Marine Science
New Zealand

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Bastiaan van Diedenhoven

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Earth Science Division
Netherlands

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Georg Veh

University of Potsdam
Environmental Science and Geography
Geohazards
Germany

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Anton Velo

IIM-CSIC
Oceanic Processes in Global Change
Spain

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Sander Veraverbeke

Nederland
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands

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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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Martin Wild

ETH Zurich
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Switzerland

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Kang Yang

Nanjing University
School of Geography and Ocean Science
China

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Jia Yang

Oklahoma State University
Natural Resource Ecology and Management
United States

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Yun Yang

Cornell University
Soil and Crop Sciences
United States

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Yuanzhi Yao

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

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Yufang Ye

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

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Zhen Yu

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

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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

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Bo Zheng

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

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Yuyu Zhou

The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

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Chunlüe Zhou

University of Gothenburg
Faculty of Science
Department of Earth Sciences
Sweden

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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
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