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Chief editors: Kirsten Elger, Tobias Gerken, 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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30 Jun 2026 The Norwegian University of Science and Technology partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new institutional agreement with Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Please read more.

30 Jun 2026 The Norwegian University of Science and Technology partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new institutional agreement with Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). 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.

Highlight articles

22 Jul 2026
Lagoon temperature and hydrodynamics of Reao Atoll (Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia) before and during the 2024 El-Niño marine heatwave
Esther Ladet, Carla Chevillard, Romain Le Gendre, Thomas Trophime, Sébastien Petton, and Simon Van Wynsberge
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5283–5302, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5283-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5283-2026, 2026
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20 Jul 2026
The Greenland GNSS Network (GNET): geodetic grade GNSS measurements of Greenland's 3D bedrock displacement from 1995–2025
Christian Solgaard, Finn Bo Madsen, Malte Winther-Dahl, Thomas Henry Nylen, Danjal Longfors Berg, Ole Bjerregaard, Javed Hassan, Per Knudsen, Michael Bevis, and Shfaqat Abbas Khan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 5117–5142, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5117-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5117-2026, 2026
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16 Jul 2026
TundraFlux: a database of ecosystem respiration with biotic and abiotic metadata from Arctic and alpine tundra warming experiments
Sarah Schwieger, Jan Dietrich, Mats P. Björkman, Judith M. Sarneel, Bowen Li, Joel White, Inge H. J. Althuizen, Christina Biasi, Robert G. Björk, Hanna Böhner, Brage Bremset Hansen, Michele Carbognani, Giorgio Chiari, Casper T. Christiansen, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Hans Cornelissen, Ludovica D'Imperio, Ellen Dorrepaal, Bo Elberling, Patrick Faubert, Ned Fetcher, T'ai G. W. Forte, Joseph Gaudard, Konstantin Gavazov, Zhen-Huan Guan, Jón Guðmundsson, Siri V. Haugum, Jin-Sheng He, Caitlin Hicks Pries, Mark Hovenden, Simone I. Lang, Gus Jespersen, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Ji Young Jung, Olga Khitun, Birgitte Kortegaard Danielsen, Richard Lamprecht, Mathilde Le Moullec, Hanna Lee, Maija E. Marushchak, Anders Michelsen, Tariq Munir, Eero Myrsky, Kevin K. Newsham, Marion Nyberg, Steven F. Oberbauer, Paulo Olivas, Johan Olofsson, Hlynur Óskarsson, Thomas C. Parker, Matteo Petit Bon, Alessandro Petraglia, Emily Pickering Pedersen, Katrine Raundrup, Nynne R. Ravn, Riikka Rinnan, Heidi Rodenhizer, Ingvild Ryde, Alejandro Salazar, Niels M. Schmidt, Ted Schuur, Sofie Sjögersten, Cecilie Skov Nielsen, Sari Stark, Maria Strack, Jianwu Tang, Sylvia Toet, Anne Tolvanen, Maria Väisänen, Richard Van Logtestijn, Vigdis Vandvik, Carolina Voigt, Josefine Walz, Jeffrey M. Welker, Yuanhe Yang, Henni Ylänne, and Sybryn L. Maes
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4965–4982, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4965-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4965-2026, 2026
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Recent papers

22 Jul 2026
WSDS-CAN: Wildfire Spread Prediction Dataset for Canadian Boreal Forests
Hossein Keshmiri and Khan Arif Wahid
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-378,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-378, 2026
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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22 Jul 2026
Long-term multi-site eddy-covariance observations of carbon, water, and energy fluxes in West Africa
Luitpold Hingerl, Samuel Guug, Jan Bliefernicht, Hawwa Kadum, Souleymane Sy, Windmanagda Sawadogo, Emmanuel Quansah, Francis E. Oussou, Leonard Amekudzi, Seyni Salack, Belko Abdul-Aziz Diallo, Michael Ayamba, Emmanuel Ramde, Rainer Steinbrecher, Frank Neidli, and Harald Kunstmann
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-379,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-379, 2026
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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22 Jul 2026
A new High-Resolution daily Mean South China Sea Ocean Reanalysis dataset: SCSORA
Xuri Zhang, Xueming Zhu, Ziqing Zu, Guokun Lv, Hailong Wang, Yan Yan, Jian Liu, and Hui Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-440,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-440, 2026
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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22 Jul 2026
Synoptic hydrographic monitoring across the Kongsfjorden–Krossfjorden system and the Fram Strait: five-year time series from the Italian Arctic Marine Observing System
Francesco Paladini de Mendoza, Leonardo Langone, Alice Cavaliere, Gianmarco Ingrosso, Lorenzo Pasculli, Chiara Ripa, Mauro Mazzola, Manuel Bensi, Federico Giglio, Stefano Miserocchi, Tommaso Tesi, and Patrizia Giordano
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-501,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-501, 2026
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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22 Jul 2026
Surface sediment grain-size characteristics of the Bohai, Yellow, and East China seas: a comprehensive survey based on unified laser diffraction analysis
Xiaoyong Duan, Bin Chen, Meina Li, Shuang Wang, Ping Yin, Bin Chen, and Jian Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-506,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-506, 2026
Preprint under review for ESSD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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