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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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15 Jun 2026 The NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications is delighted to announce a new institutional agreement with NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Please read more.

15 Jun 2026 The NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications is delighted to announce a new institutional agreement with NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). 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.

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.

07 May 2026 Temporary unavailability of article and preprint PDFs due to technical issues

Since Tuesday, 5 May, 06:30 CET, we have been experiencing technical issues caused by high demand on our systems, which have significantly affected our journal libraries. To maintain platform stability and ensure continued access to critical services, all preprint and journal article PDFs were temporarily restricted, while HTML full-text content and XML files remained available. Since Thursday, 7 May, 08:30 CET, we have made the preprint PDFs available again; however, journal article PDFs remain restricted until the technical issues have been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to restore full PDF access as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

07 May 2026 Temporary unavailability of article and preprint PDFs due to technical issues

Since Tuesday, 5 May, 06:30 CET, we have been experiencing technical issues caused by high demand on our systems, which have significantly affected our journal libraries. To maintain platform stability and ensure continued access to critical services, all preprint and journal article PDFs were temporarily restricted, while HTML full-text content and XML files remained available. Since Thursday, 7 May, 08:30 CET, we have made the preprint PDFs available again; however, journal article PDFs remain restricted until the technical issues have been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to restore full PDF access as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

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Highlight articles

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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29 Apr 2026

Creation and analysis of a multi-hazard dataset: Tenerife (Canary Islands) as a case study

Marta López-Saavedra, Joan Martí, and Marc Martínez-Sepúlveda

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2979–2998, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2979-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2979-2026, 2026

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Recent papers

17 Jun 2026

HYD-RESPONSES: daily hydro-meteorological catchment-level time series to analyse HYDrological drought dynamics in RESPONSE to (cumulative) water deficits in Swiss catchments

Christoph Nathanael von Matt, Benjamin David Stocker, and Olivia Martius

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4113–4154, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4113-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4113-2026, 2026

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17 Jun 2026

A high-resolution gridded dataset of water footprints for China's major food crops from 2001 to 2020

En Hua, Ling Huang, Liangliang Zhang, Quanbo Zhao, Yingxuan Wang, Bowei Wu, Sien Li, Yaokui Cui, Yubao Wang, and Xuhui Wang

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4097–4112, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4097-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4097-2026, 2026

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17 Jun 2026

BMAT: A footprint-level building facade material dataset for 73 major cities worldwide

Hanyu Yin, Fan Zhang, Yuqing Wang, Lun Wu, and Yu Liu

Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-345,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-345, 2026

Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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17 Jun 2026

Hydrographic CTD profiles capturing the onset of near-surface stratification in Southwest Greenland fjords during two consecutive spring 2025 field campaigns

Marta Umbert, Nina Hoareau, Júlia Crespin, Maria Sánchez-Urrea, Ferran Hernández-Macià, Carolina Gabarró, and Eva De-Andrés

Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-429,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-429, 2026

Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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16 Jun 2026

EuroCrops v2.0: multi-annual harmonized parcel level crop type data linked to European Union-wide survey, statistical, and Earth Observation products

Martin Claverie, Ayshah Chan, Linda See, Helena Ramos, Renate Koeble, Momchil Yordanov, Jon Olav Skøien, Ferdinando Urbano, Raphael d'Andrimont, Maja Schneider, Marco Körner, and Marijn Van der Velde

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4075–4095, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4075-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4075-2026, 2026

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