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A multi-dimensional dataset of Ordovician to Silurian graptolite specimens for virtual examination, global correlation, and shale gas exploration Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Hong-He Xu, Zhi-Bin Niu, Yan-Sen Chen, Xuan Ma, Xiao-Jing Tong, Yi-Tong Sun, Xiao-Yan Dong, Dan-Ni Fan, Shuang-Shuang Song, Yan-Yan Zhu, Ning Yang, Qing Xia
Abstract. Multi-elemental and multi-dimensional data are more and more important in the development of data-driven research, as is the case in modern paleontology, in which, in an examination by experts, or some day artificial intelligence, every fossil specimen plays a fundamental role. We here release a dataset of 1550 graptolite specimens representing 113 Ordovician to Silurian graptolite species
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RC4USCoast: a river chemistry dataset for regional ocean model applications in the US East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and US West Coast Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Fabian A. Gomez, Sang-Ki Lee, Charles A. Stock, Andrew C. Ross, Laure Resplandy, Samantha A. Siedlecki, Filippos Tagklis, Joseph E. Salisbury
Abstract. A historical dataset of river chemistry and discharge is presented for 140 monitoring sites along the US East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the US West Coast from 1950 to 2022. The dataset, referred to here as River Chemistry for the U.S. Coast (RC4USCoast), is mostly derived from the Water Quality Database of the US Geological Survey (USGS) but also includes river discharge from the USGS's
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A 30 m annual cropland dataset of China from 1986 to 2021 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Ying Tu, Shengbiao Wu, Bin Chen, Qihao Weng, Peng Gong, Yuqi Bai, Jun Yang, Le Yu, Bing Xu
Abstract. Accurate, detailed, and up-to-date information on cropland extent is crucial for provisioning food security and environmental sustainability. However, because of the complexity of agricultural landscapes and lack of sufficient training samples, it remains challenging to monitor cropland dynamics at high spatial and temporal resolutions across large geographical extents, especially for places
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Snow accumulation and ablation measurements in a mid-latitude mountain coniferous forest (Col de Porte, France, 1325 m alt.): The Snow Under Forest field campaigns dataset Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Jean Emmanuel Sicart, Victor Ramseyer, Ghislain Picard, Laurent Arnaud, Catherine Coulaud, Guilhem Freche, Damien Soubeyrand, Yves Lejeune, Marie Dumont, Isabelle Gouttevin, Erwan Le Gac, Frederic Berger, Jean Matthieu Monnet, Laurent Borgniet, Eric Mermin, Nick Rutter, Clare Webster, Richard Essery
Abstract. Forests strongly modify the accumulation, metamorphism and melting of snow in mid and high-latitude regions. Recently, snow routines in hydrological and land surface models have been improved to incorporate more accurate representations of forest snow processes, but model inter-comparison projects have identified deficiencies, partly due to incomplete knowledge of the processes controlling
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Metazoan zooplankton in the Bay of Biscay: 16 years of individual sizes and abundances from the ZooScan and ZooCAM imaging systems Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Nina Grandremy, Paul Bourriau, Edwin Daché, Marie-Madeleine Danielou, Mathieu Doray, Christine Dupuy, Bertrand Forest, Laetitia Jalabert, Martin Huret, Sophie Le Mestre, Antoine Nowaczyk, Pierre Petitgas, Philippe Pineau, Justin Rouxel, Morgan Tardivel, Jean-Baptiste Romagnan
Abstract. This paper presents two metazoan zooplankton datasets obtained by imaging samples collected on the Bay of Biscay continental shelf in spring during the PELGAS integrated surveys, over the 2004–2019 period. The samples were collected at night, with a WP2 200 µm mesh size fitted with a Hydrobios (back-run stop) mechanical flowmeter, hauled vertically from the sea floor to the surface with a
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A global historical twice-daily (daytime and nighttime) land surface temperature dataset produced by Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer observations from 1981 to 2021 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Jia-Hao Li, Zhao-Liang Li, Xiangyang Liu, Si-Bo Duan
Abstract. Land surface temperature (LST) is a key variable for monitoring and evaluating global long-term climate change. However, existing satellite-based twice-daily LST products only date back to 2000, which makes it difficult to obtain robust long-term temperature variations. In this study, we developed the first global historical twice-daily LST dataset (GT-LST), with a spatial resolution of 0
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Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from wood fuel use by households Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Alessandro Flammini, Hanif Adzmir, Kevin Karl, Francesco Nicola Tubiello
Abstract. The combustion of wood fuel for residential use is often not considered to be a source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from households, as the emissions from wood fuel combustion can be offset by the CO2 absorbed by the growth of the forest (as a carbon sink) (IPCC, 2006). However, this only applies to wood that is harvested in a renewable way, i.e. at a rate not exceeding the regrowth
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Meteorological, snow and soil data, CO2, water and energy fluxes, from a low-Arctic valley in the forest-tundra ecotone of Northern Quebec Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Georg Lackner, Florent Domine, Denis Sarrazin, Daniel Nadeau, Maria Belke-Brea
Abstract. As the vegetation in the Arctic changes, tundra ecosystems along the southern border of the Arctic are becoming greener and gradually giving way to boreal ecosystems. This change is affecting local populations, wildlife, energy exchange processes between environmental compartments, and the carbon cycle. To understand the progression and the implications of this change in vegetation, satellite
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A high-resolution synthesis dataset for multistressor analyses along the U.S. West Coast Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Esther G. Kennedy, Meghan Zulian, Sara L. Hamilton, Tessa M. Hill, Manuel Delgado, Carina R. Fish, Brian Gaylord, Kristy J. Kroeker, Hannah M. Palmer, Aurora M. Ricart, Eric Sanford, Ana K. Spalding, Melissa Ward, Guadalupe Carrasco, Meredith Elliott, Genece V. Grisby, Evan Harris, Jaime Jahncke, Catherine N. Rocheleau, Sebastian Westerink, Maddie I. Wilmot
Abstract. The global trends of ocean warming, deoxygenation, and acidification are not easily extrapolated to coastal environments. Local factors, including intricate hydrodynamics, high primary productivity, freshwater inputs, and pollution, can exacerbate or attenuate global trends and produce complex mosaics of physiologically stressful conditions for organisms. In the California Current System
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Last Glacial loess in Europe: luminescence database and chronology of deposition Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Mathieu Bosq, Sebastian Kreutzer, Pascal Bertran, Philippe Lanos, Philippe Dufresne, Christoph Schmidt
Abstract. During the last glacial period, the climate shift to cold conditions associated with changes in atmospheric circulation and vegetation cover resulted in the development of large aeolian systems in Europe. On a regional scale, many factors may have influenced dust dynamics, such as the latitudinal difference between the various aeolian systems and the variability of the sources of wind-transported
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Fire weather index data under historical and shared socioeconomic pathway projections in the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project from 1850 to 2100 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Yann Quilcaille, Fulden Batibeniz, Andreia F. S. Ribeiro, Ryan S. Padrón, Sonia I. Seneviratne
Abstract. Human-induced climate change is increasing the incidence of fire events and associated impacts on livelihood, biodiversity, and nature across the world. Understanding current and projected fire activity together with its impacts on ecosystems is crucial for evaluating future risks and taking actions to prevent such devastating events. Here we focus on fire weather as a key driver of fire
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Temporal and spatial mapping of theoretical biomass potential across the European Union Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Susann Günther, Tom Karras, Friederike Naegeli de Torres, Sebastian Semella, Daniela Thrän
Abstract. With the increasing challenge to shift our economic system from carbon to renewable energy carriers the demand for biogenic resources is growing. Biogenic municipal waste, agricultural by-products and industrial residues are under-utilised but are increasingly gaining in value. To date, there is no continuous database for these resources in the EU-27 countries. Existing datasets that estimate
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PalVol v1: A proxy-based semi-stochastic ensemble reconstruction of volcanic stratospheric sulfur injection for the last glacial cycle (130,000–50 BP) Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Julie Christin Schindlbeck-Belo, Matthew Toohey, Marion Jegen, Steffen Kutterolf, Kira Rehfeld
Abstract. Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol due to explosive volcanic eruptions are a primary contributor to natural climate variability. Observations of stratospheric aerosol are available for the past decades, and information from ice cores has been used to derive estimates of stratospheric sulfur injections and aerosol optical depth over the Holocene (approximately 10,000 BP to present) and
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Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5) Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Yang Chen, Joanne Hall, Dave van Wees, Niels Andela, Stijn Hantson, Louis Giglio, Guido R. van der Werf, Douglas C. Morton, James T. Randerson
Abstract. Long-term records of burned area are needed to understand wildfire dynamics, assess fire impacts on ecosystems and air quality, and improve fire forecasts. Here we fuse multiple streams of remote sensing data to create a 24-year (1997–2020) dataset of monthly burned area as a component of the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5). During 2001–2020, we use the Moderate
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Ten years of 1 Hz solar irradiance observations at Cabauw, the Netherlands, with cloud observations, variability classifications, and statistics Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Wouter B. Mol, Wouter H. Knap, Chiel C. van Heerwaarden
Abstract. Surface solar irradiance varies on scales down to seconds, and detailed long-term observational datasets of this variable are rare but in high demand. Here, we present an observational dataset of global, direct, and diffuse solar irradiance sampled at 1 Hz as well as fully resolved variability until at least 0.1 Hz over a period of 10 years from the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN)
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ET-WB: water balance-based estimations of terrestrial evaporation over global land and major global basins Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Jinghua Xiong, Abhishek,, Li Xu, Hrishikesh A. Chandanpurkar, James S. Famiglietti, Chong Zhang, Gionata Ghiggi, Shenglian Guo, Yun Pan, Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma
Abstract. Evaporation (ET) is one of the crucial components of the water cycle, which serves as the nexus between global water, energy, and carbon cycles. Accurate quantification of ET is, therefore, pivotal in understanding various earth system processes and subsequent societal applications. The prevailing approaches for ET retrievals are either limited in spatiotemporal coverage or largely influenced
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The CoralHydro2k database: a global, actively curated compilation of coral δ18O and Sr ∕ Ca proxy records of tropical ocean hydrology and temperature for the Common Era Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Rachel M. Walter, Hussein R. Sayani, Thomas Felis, Kim M. Cobb, Nerilie J. Abram, Ariella K. Arzey, Alyssa R. Atwood, Logan D. Brenner, Émilie P. Dassié, Kristine L. DeLong, Bethany Ellis, Julien Emile-Geay, Matthew J. Fischer, Nathalie F. Goodkin, Jessica A. Hargreaves, K. Halimeda Kilbourne, Hedwig Krawczyk, Nicholas P. McKay, Andrea L. Moore, Sujata A. Murty, Maria Rosabelle Ong, Riovie D. Ramos
Abstract. The response of the hydrological cycle to anthropogenic climate change, especially across the tropical oceans, remains poorly understood due to the scarcity of long instrumental temperature and hydrological records. Massive shallow-water corals are ideally suited to reconstructing past oceanic variability as they are widely distributed across the tropics, rapidly deposit calcium carbonate
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Moho depths beneath the European Alps: a homogeneously processed map and receiver functions database Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Konstantinos Michailos, György Hetényi, Matteo Scarponi, Josip Stipčević, Irene Bianchi, Luciana Bonatto, Wojciech Czuba, Massimo Di Bona, Aladino Govoni, Katrin Hannemann, Tomasz Janik, Dániel Kalmár, Rainer Kind, Frederik Link, Francesco Pio Lucente, Stephen Monna, Caterina Montuori, Stefan Mroczek, Anne Paul, Claudia Piromallo, Jaroslava Plomerová, Julia Rewers, Simone Salimbeni, Frederik Tilmann
Abstract. We use seismic waveform data from the AlpArray Seismic Network and three other temporary seismic networks, to perform receiver function (RF) calculations and time-to-depth migration to update the knowledge of the Moho discontinuity beneath the broader European Alps. In particular, we set up a homogeneous processing scheme to compute RFs using the time-domain iterative deconvolution method
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WorldCereal: a dynamic open-source system for global-scale, seasonal, and reproducible crop and irrigation mapping Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Kristof Van Tricht, Jeroen Degerickx, Sven Gilliams, Daniele Zanaga, Marjorie Battude, Alex Grosu, Joost Brombacher, Myroslava Lesiv, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas, Santosh Karanam, Steffen Fritz, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Belén Franch, Bertran Mollà-Bononad, Hendrik Boogaard, Arun Kumar Pratihast, Zoltan Szantoi
Abstract. The challenge of global food security in the face of population growth, conflict and climate change requires a comprehensive understanding of cropped areas, irrigation practices and the distribution of major commodity crops like maize and wheat. However, such understanding should preferably be updated at seasonal intervals for each agricultural system rather than relying on a single annual
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Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Weiyi Tang, Bess B. Ward, Michael Beman, Laura Bristow, Darren Clark, Sarah Fawcett, Claudia Frey, Francois Fripiat, Gerhard J. Herndl, Mhlangabezi Mdutyana, Fabien Paulot, Xuefeng Peng, Alyson E. Santoro, Takuhei Shiozaki, Eva Sintes, Charles Stock, Xin Sun, Xianhui S. Wan, Min N. Xu, Yao Zhang
Abstract. As a key biogeochemical pathway in the marine nitrogen cycle, nitrification (ammonia oxidation and nitrite oxidation) converts the most reduced form of nitrogen – ammonium/ammonia (NH4+/ NH3) into the oxidized species nitrite (NO2−) and nitrate (NO3−). In the ocean, these processes are mainly performed by ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB), and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB)
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Generation of global 1 km daily soil moisture product from 2000 to 2020 using ensemble learning Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Yufang Zhang, Shunlin Liang, Han Ma, Tao He, Qian Wang, Bing Li, Jianglei Xu, Guodong Zhang, Xiaobang Liu, Changhao Xiong
Abstract. Motivated by the lack of long-term global soil moisture products with both high spatial and temporal resolutions, a global 1 km daily spatiotemporally continuous soil moisture product (GLASS SM) was generated from 2000 to 2020 using an ensemble learning model (eXtreme Gradient Boosting – XGBoost). The model was developed by integrating multiple datasets, including albedo, land surface temperature
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Annual emissions of carbon from land use, land-use change, and forestry from 1850 to 2020 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Richard A. Houghton, Andrea Castanho
Abstract. Estimates of the annual emissions of carbon from land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) are important for constructing global, regional, and national carbon budgets, which in turn help predict future rates of climate change and define potential strategies for mitigation. Here, we update a long-term (1850–2020) series of annual national carbon emissions resulting from LULUCF (https://doi
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Multitemporal characterisation of a proglacial system: a multidisciplinary approach Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Elisabetta Corte, Andrea Ajmar, Carlo Camporeale, Alberto Cina, Velio Coviello, Fabio Giulio Tonolo, Alberto Godio, Myrta Maria Macelloni, Stefania Tamea, Andrea Vergnano
Abstract. The recession of Alpine glaciers causes an increase in the extent of proglacial areas that leads to changes in the water and sediment balance morphodynamics and sediment transport. Although the processes occurring in proglacial areas are relevant not only from a scientific point of view but also for the purpose of climate change adaptation, there is a lack of studies on the continuous monitoring
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CLARA-A3: The third edition of the AVHRR-based CM SAF climate data record on clouds, radiation and surface albedo covering the period 1979 to 2023 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Karl-Göran Karlsson, Martin Stengel, Jan Fokke Meirink, Aku Riihelä, Jörg Trentmann, Tom Akkermans, Diana Stein, Abhay Devasthale, Salomon Eliasson, Erik Johansson, Nina Håkansson, Irina Solodovnik, Nikos Benas, Nicolas Clerbaux, Nathalie Selbach, Marc Schröder, Rainer Hollmann
Abstract. This paper presents the third edition of the CM SAF cLoud, Albedo and surface RAdiation dataset from AVHRR data, CLARA-A3. The content of earlier CLARA editions, namely cloud, surface albedo, and surface radiation products, has been extended with two additional surface albedo products (blue and white sky albedo), three additional surface radiation products (net shortwave and longwave radiation
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Modern air, englacial and permafrost temperatures at high altitude on Mt. Ortles, (3905 m a.s.l.) in the Eastern European Alps Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Luca Carturan, Fabrizio De Blasi, Roberto Dinale, Gianfranco Dragà, Paolo Gabrielli, Volkmar Mair, Roberto Seppi, David Tonidandel, Thomas Zanoner, Tiziana Lazzarina Zendrini, Giancarlo Dalla Fontana
Abstract. The climatic response of mountain permafrost and glaciers located in high-elevation mountain areas has major implications for the stability of mountain slopes and related geomorphological hazards, water storage and supply, and preservation of paleoclimatic archives. Despite a good knowledge of physical processes that govern the climatic response of mountain permafrost and glaciers, there
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An integrated and homogenized global surface solar radiation dataset and its reconstruction based on an artificial intelligence approach Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Boyang Jiao, Yucheng Su, Qingxiang Li, Veronica Manara, Martin Wild
Abstract. Surface solar radiation (SSR) is an essential factor in the flow of surface energy, enabling accurate capturing of long-term climate change and understanding the energy balance of Earth's atmosphere system. However, the long-term trend estimation of SSR is subjected to significant uncertainties due to the temporal inhomogeneity and the uneven spatial distribution of the in-situ observations
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Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Heidi Kreibich, Kai Schröter, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Anne F. Van Loon, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Svetlana Agafonova, Amir AghaKouchak, Hafzullah Aksoy, Camila Alvarez-Garreton, Blanca Aznar, Laila Balkhi, Marlies H. Barendrecht, Sylvain Biancamaria, Liduin Bos-Burgering, Chris Bradley, Yus Budiyono, Wouter Buytaert, Lucinda Capewell, Hayley Carlson, Yonca Cavus, Anaïs Couasnon, Gemma
Abstract. As the adverse impacts of hydrological extremes increase in many regions of the world, a better understanding of the drivers of changes in risk and impacts is essential for effective flood and drought risk management and climate adaptation. However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive, empirical data about the processes, interactions, and feedbacks in complex human–water systems leading
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A consistent dataset for the net income distribution for 190 countries, aggregated to 32 geographical regions and the world from 1958–2015 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Kanishka B. Narayan, Brian C. O'Neill, Stephanie Waldhoff, Claudia Tebaldi
Abstract. Data on income distributions within and across countries are becoming increasingly important to inform analysis of income inequality and to understand the distributional consequences of climate change. While datasets on income distribution collected from household surveys are available for multiple countries, these datasets often do not represent the same income concept and therefore make
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Mapping 24 woody plant species phenology and ground forests phenology over China from 1951–2020 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Mengyao Zhu, Junhu Dai, Huanjiong Wang, Juha M. Alatalo, Wei Liu, Yulong Hao, Quansheng Ge
Abstract. Plant phenology refers to the cyclic plant growth events, and is one of the most important indicators of climate change. Integration of plant phenology information is of great significance for understanding the response of ecosystems to global change and simulating the material and energy balance of terrestrial ecosystems. Based on 24552 in-situ phenology observation records of 24 typical
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Evaluating the transport of surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using 137Cs deposited in the global ocean as a chemical tracer Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Yayoi Inomata, Michio Aoyama
Abstract. We analyzed the spatiotemporal variations in the 137Cs activity concentrations in global ocean surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using the HAMGlobal2021 (Historical Artificial radioactivity database in Marine environment, Global integrated version 2021) and other published data. The global ocean was divided into 37 boxes. When observing the 0.5-year median value of 137Cs in each box in the
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Two years of volatile organic compound online in situ measurements at the Site Instrumental de Recherche par Télédétection Atmosphérique (Paris region, France) using proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Leïla Simon, Valérie Gros, Jean-Eudes Petit, François Truong, Roland Sarda-Estève, Carmen Kalalian, Alexia Baudic, Caroline Marchand, Olivier Favez
Abstract. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have direct influences on air quality and climate. They indeed play a key role in atmospheric chemistry as precursors of secondary pollutants, such as ozone (O3) and secondary organic aerosols (SOA). In this respect, long-term datasets of in situ atmospheric measurements are crucial for characterizing the variability of atmospheric chemical composition, its
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Water quality dataset in China Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Jingyu Lin, Peng Wang, Jinzhu Wang, Youping Zhou, Xudong Zhou, Pan Yang, Hao Zhang, Yanpeng Cai, Zhifeng Yang
Abstract. Water data is a crucial asset for sustainable water resource management. However, the availability of China’s water datasets lags far behind modern expectations for open geoscientific data. This dataset is a part of the China Water Data Archive (CWDA), an upcoming national collection of water-related data covering all aspects of water data for boosting data sharing in China. The CWDA aims
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Physico-chemical properties of the top 120 m of two ice cores in Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica): an open window on spatial and temporal regional variability of environmental proxies Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Sarah Wauthy, Jean-Louis Tison, Mana Inoue, Saïda El Amri, Sainan Sun, Philippe Claeys, Frank Pattyn
Abstract. The Antarctic ice sheet’s future contribution to sea level rise is difficult to predict, mostly because of the uncertainty and variability of the surface mass balance (SMB). Ice cores are used to locally (km scale) reconstruct SMB with a very good temporal resolution (up to sub-annual), especially in coastal areas where accumulation rates are high. The number of ice cores records has been
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12 years of continuous atmospheric O2, CO2 and APO data from Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in the United Kingdom Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Karina E. Adcock, Penelope A. Pickers, Andrew C. Manning, Grant L. Forster, Leigh S. Fleming, Thomas Barningham, Philip A. Wilson, Elena A. Kozlova, Marica Hewitt, Alex J. Etchells, Andy J. Macdonald
Abstract. We present analyses of a 12-year time series of continuous atmospheric measurements of O2 and CO2 at the Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in the United Kingdom. These measurements are combined into the term Atmospheric Potential Oxygen (APO), a tracer that is conservative with respect to terrestrial biosphere processes. The CO2, O2 and APO datasets discussed are hourly averages between May
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Deep-water hydrodynamic observations around a cold-water coral habitat in a submarine canyon in the eastern Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Tiziana Ciuffardi, Zoi Kokkini, Maristella Berta, Marina Locritani, Andrea Bordone, Ivana Delbono, Mireno Borghini, Maurizio Demarte, Roberta Ivaldi, Federica Pannacciulli, Anna Vetrano, Davide Marini, Giovanni Caprino
Abstract. A 2-year dataset of a stand-alone mooring, deployed in November 2020 down the Levante Canyon in the eastern Ligurian Sea, is presented. The Levante Canyon Mooring (LCM) is a deep submarine multidisciplinary observatory positioned at 608 m depth in a key ecosystem area. The Levante Canyon hosts a valuable and vulnerable ecosystem of deep-living cold-water corals (CWCs), studied and monitored
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An adapted hourly Himawari-8 fire product for China: principle, methodology and verification Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Jie Chen, Qiancheng Lv, Shuang Wu, Yelu Zeng, Manchun Li, Ziyue Chen, Enze Zhou, Wei Zheng, Cheng Liu, Xiao Chen, Jing Yang, Bingbo Gao
Abstract. Wildfires exert strong influences on the environment, ecology, economy and public security. However, the existing hourly Himawari-8 fire product produced by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) presents large uncertainties and is not suitable for reliable real-time fire monitoring in China. To fill this gap, the National Satellite Meteorological Center (NSMC) proposed an adaptive hourly
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The DTU21 Global Mean Sea Surface and First Evaluation Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Ole Baltazar Andersen, Stine Kildegaard Rose, Adili Abulaitijiang, Shengjun Zhang, Sara Fleury
Abstract. A new Mean Sea Surface (MSS) called DTU21MSS for referencing sea level anomalies from satellite altimetry is introduced in this paper and a suite of evaluations are performed. One of the reasons for updating the existing Mean Sea Surface is the fact, that during the last 6 years nearly three times as much data have been made available by the space agencies, resulting in more than 15 years
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Global river flow data developed from surface runoff based on the Curve Number method Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Raghu Vamshi, Kathleen McDonough, Susan A. Csiszar, Ryan Heisler, Katherine E. Kapo, Amy M. Ritter, Ming Fan, Kathleen Stanton
Abstract. The availability of detailed surface runoff and river flow data across large geographic areas is needed for several scientific applications, such as refined freshwater environmental risk assessments. Some limiting factors in developing detailed river flow datasets over large spatial scales have been paucity of detailed input spatial data and challenges in processing of these data. The well-established
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Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: Annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and the human influence Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Piers Maxwell Forster, Christopher J. Smith, Tristram Walsh, William F. Lamb, Matthew D. Palmer, Karina von Schuckmann, Blair Trewin, Myles Allen, Robbie Andrew, Arlene Birt, Alex Borger, Tim Boyer, Jiddu A. Broersma, Lijing Cheng, Frank Dentener, Pierre Friedlingstein, Nathan Gillett, José M. Gutiérrez, Johannes Gütschow, Mathias Hauser, Bradley Hall, Masayoshi Ishii, Stuart Jenkins, Robin Lamboll
Abstract. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement that will conclude at COP28 in December 2023. Evidence-based decision making needs to be informed by up-to-date
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CMEMS-LSCE: A global 0.25-degree, monthly reconstruction of the surface ocean carbonate system Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Thi-Tuyet-Trang Chau, Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Metzl, Frédéric Chevallier
Abstract. Observation-based data reconstructions of global surface ocean carbonate system variables play an essential role in monitoring the recent status of ocean carbon uptake and ocean acidification as well as their impacts on marine organisms and ecosystems. So far ongoing efforts are directed towards exploring new approaches to describe the complete marine carbonate system and to better recover
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The Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon (MOSAIC): version 2.0 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Sarah Paradis, Kai Nakajima, Tessa S. Van der Voort, Hannah Gies, Aline Wildberger, Thomas Blattmann, Lisa Bröder, Tim Eglinton
Abstract. Marine sediments play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle by acting as the ultimate sink of both terrestrial and marine organic carbon. To understand the spatiotemporal variability in the content, sources and dynamics of organic carbon in marine sediments, a curated and harmonized database of organic carbon and associated parameters is needed, which has prompted the development of the
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Quality-controlled meteorological datasets from SIGMA automatic weather stations in northwest Greenland, 2012–2020 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Motoshi Nishimura, Teruo Aoki, Masashi Niwano, Sumito Matoba, Tomonori Tanikawa, Tetsuhide Yamasaki, Satoru Yamaguchi, Koji Fujita
Abstract. In situ meteorological data are essential to better understand ongoing environmental changes in the Arctic. Here, we present a dataset of quality-controlled meteorological observations by two automatic weather stations in northwest Greenland from July 2012 to the end of August 2020. The stations were installed in an accumulation area on the Greenland Ice Sheet (SIGMA-A site, 1490 m a.s.l
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A remote-sensing-based dataset to characterize the ecosystem functioning and functional diversity in the Biosphere Reserve of the Sierra Nevada (southeastern Spain) Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Beatriz P. Cazorla, Javier Cabello, Andrés Reyes, Emilio Guirado, Julio Peñas, Antonio J. Pérez-Luque, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura
Abstract. Conservation biology faces the challenge of safeguarding the ecosystem functions and ecological processes (the water cycle, nutrients, energy flow, and community dynamics) that sustain the multiple facets of biodiversity. Characterization and evaluation of these processes and functions can be carried out through functional attributes or traits related to the exchanges of matter and energy
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Twelve years of profile soil moisture and temperature measurements in Twente, the Netherlands Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Rogier van der Velde, Harm-Jan F. Benninga, Bas Retsios, Paul C. Vermunt, M. Suhyb Salama
Abstract. Spread across Twente and its neighbouring regions in the east of the Netherlands, a network of 20 profile soil moisture and temperature (5, 10, 20, 40, and 80 cm depths) monitoring stations was established in 2009. Field campaigns have been conducted covering the growing seasons of 2009, 2015, 2016, and 2017, during which soil sampling rings and handheld probes were used to measure the top
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Refined mapping of tree cover at fine-scale using time-series Planet-NICFI and Sentinel-1 imagery for Southeast Asia (2016–2021) Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Feng Yang, Zhenzhong Zeng
Abstract. High-resolution mapping of tree cover is indispensable for effectively addressing tropical forest carbon loss, climate warming, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development. However, the availability of precise high-resolution tree cover map products remains inadequate due to the inherent limitations of mapping techniques utilizing medium-to-coarse resolution satellite imagery,
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Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) daily and monthly level-3 products of atmospheric trace gas columns Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Ka Lok Chan, Pieter Valks, Klaus-Peter Heue, Ronny Lutz, Pascal Hedelt, Diego Loyola, Gaia Pinardi, Michel Van Roozendael, François Hendrick, Thomas Wagner, Vinod Kumar, Alkis Bais, Ankie Piters, Hitoshi Irie, Hisahiro Takashima, Yugo Kanaya, Yongjoo Choi, Kihong Park, Jihyo Chong, Alexander Cede, Udo Frieß, Andreas Richter, Jianzhong Ma, Nuria Benavent, Robert Holla, Oleg Postylyakov, Claudia Rivera
Abstract. We introduce the new Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) daily and monthly level-3 product of total column ozone (O3), total and tropospheric column nitrogen dioxide (NO2), total column water vapour, total column bromine oxide (BrO), total column formaldehyde (HCHO), and total column sulfur dioxide (SO2) (daily products https://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_AC_0048, AC SAF, 2023a; monthly
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Ocean cross-validated observations from R/Vs L'Atalante, Maria S. Merian, and Meteor and related platforms as part of the EUREC4A-OA/ATOMIC campaign Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Pierre L'Hégaret, Florian Schütte, Sabrina Speich, Gilles Reverdin, Dariusz B. Baranowski, Rena Czeschel, Tim Fischer, Gregory R. Foltz, Karen J. Heywood, Gerd Krahmann, Rémi Laxenaire, Caroline Le Bihan, Philippe Le Bot, Stéphane Leizour, Callum Rollo, Michael Schlundt, Elizabeth Siddle, Corentin Subirade, Dongxiao Zhang, Johannes Karstensen
Abstract. The northwestern Tropical Atlantic Ocean is a turbulent region, filled with mesoscale eddies and regional currents. In this intense dynamical context, several water masses with thermohaline characteristics of different origins are advected, mixed, and stirred at the surface and at depth. The EUREC4A-OA/ATOMIC experiment that took place in January and February 2020 was dedicated to assessing
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Spatial mapping of key plant functional traits in terrestrial ecosystems across China Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Nannan An, Nan Lu, Weiliang Chen, Yongzhe Chen, Hao Shi, Fuzhong Wu, Bojie Fu
Abstract. Trait-based approaches are of increasing concern in predicting vegetation changes and linking ecosystem structure to functions at large scales. However, a critical challenge for such approaches is acquiring spatially continuous plant functional trait distribution. Here, eight key plant functional traits were selected to represent two-dimensional spectrum of plant form and function, including
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Vectorized dataset of check dams on the Chinese Loess Plateau using object-based classification method from Google Earth images Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Yi Zeng, Tongge Jing, Baodong Xu, Xiankun Yang, Jinshi Jian, Renjie Zong, Bing Wang, Wei Dai, Lei Deng, Nufang Fang, Zhihua Shi
Abstract. The Chinese government has invested tens of billions of dollars and about 60 years to implement a large-scale check dam project on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) to control severe soil erosion. These check dams have trapped billions of tons of eroded sediment over the past few decades, significantly reducing the sediment load of the Yellow River, which was once the river with the largest
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Shallow-groundwater-level time series and a groundwater chemistry survey from a boreal headwater catchment, Krycklan, Sweden Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Jana Erdbrügger, Ilja van Meerveld, Jan Seibert, Kevin Bishop
Abstract. Shallow groundwater can respond quickly to precipitation and is the main contributor to streamflow in most catchments in humid, temperate climates. Therefore, it is important to have high-spatiotemporal-resolution data on groundwater levels and groundwater chemistry to test spatially distributed hydrological models. However, currently, there are few datasets on groundwater levels with a high
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A Submesoscale Eddy Identification Dataset Derived from GOCI I Chlorophyll–a Data based on Deep Learning Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Yan Wang, Jie Yang, Kai Wu, Meng Hou, Ge Chen
Abstract. This paper presents an observational dataset on submesoscale eddies, which obtains from high–resolution chlorophyll–a distribution images from GOCI I. We employed a combination of digital image processing, filtering, YOLOv7–X, and small object detection techniques, along with specific chlorophyll image enhancement processing, to extract information on submesoscale eddies, including their
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Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Inès N. Otosaka, Andrew Shepherd, Erik R. Ivins, Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel, Charles Amory, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Martin Horwath, Ian Joughin, Michalea D. King, Gerhard Krinner, Sophie Nowicki, Anthony J. Payne, Eric Rignot, Ted Scambos, Karen M. Simon, Benjamin E. Smith, Louise S. Sørensen, Isabella Velicogna, Pippa L. Whitehouse, Geruo A, Cécile Agosta, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, Alejandro Blazquez, William
Abstract. Ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have accelerated since the 1990s, accounting for a significant increase in the global mean sea level. Here, we present a new 29-year record of ice sheet mass balance from 1992 to 2020 from the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE). We compare and combine 50 independent estimates of ice sheet mass balance derived from
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CROPGRIDS: A global geo-referenced dataset of 173 crops circa 2020 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Fiona H. M. Tang, Thu Ha Nguyen, Giulia Conchedda, Leon Casse, Francesco N. Tubiello, Federico Maggi
Abstract. Despite recent advancements in cloud processing and modelling and the increasing availability of high spectral- and temporal- resolution satellite imagery, mapping the spatial distribution of crop types remains a challenging task. Here, we present CROPGRIDS – a comprehensive global, geo-referenced dataset providing information on areas for 173 crops circa the year 2020, at a resolution of
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A global Lagrangian eddy dataset based on satellite altimetry Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Tongya Liu, Ryan Abernathey
Abstract. The methods used to identify coherent ocean eddies are either Eulerian or Lagrangian in nature, and nearly all existing eddy datasets are based on the Eulerian method. In this study, millions of Lagrangian particles are advected by satellite-derived surface geostrophic velocities over the period of 1993–2019. Using the method of Lagrangian-averaged vorticity deviation (LAVD), we present a
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High-resolution mapping of monthly industrial water withdrawal in China from 1965 to 2020 Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Chengcheng Hou, Yan Li, Shan Sang, Xu Zhao, Yanxu Liu, Yinglu Liu, Fang Zhao
Abstract. High-quality gridded data on industrial water use is vital for research and water resource management. However, such data in China usually have low accuracy. In this study, we developed a gridded dataset of monthly industrial water withdrawal (IWW) for China, namely, the China industrial water withdrawal dataset (CIWW), which spans a 56-year period from 1965 to 2020 at a spatial resolution
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Ground- and ship-based microwave radiometer measurements during EUREC4A Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Sabrina Schnitt, Andreas Foth, Heike Kalesse-Los, Mario Mech, Claudia Acquistapace, Friedhelm Jansen, Ulrich Löhnert, Bernhard Pospichal, Johannes Röttenbacher, Susanne Crewell, Bjorn Stevens
Abstract. During the EUREC4A field study, microwave radiometric measurements were performed at Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO) and aboard the RV Meteor and RV Maria S Merian. We present retrieved Integrated Water Vapor (IWV), Liquid Water Path (LWP) and temperature and humidity profiles as a unified, quality-controlled, multi-site dataset on a three second temporal resolution for a core period between
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Weekly high-resolution multi-spectral and thermal uncrewed-aerial-system mapping of an alpine catchment during summer snowmelt, Niwot Ridge, Colorado Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Oliver Wigmore, Noah P. Molotch
Abstract. Alpine ecosystems are experiencing rapid change as a result of warming temperatures and changes in the quantity, timing and phase of precipitation. This in turn impacts patterns and processes of ecohydrologic connectivity, vegetation productivity and water provision to downstream regions. The fine-scale heterogeneous nature of these environments makes them challenging areas to measure with
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The sea level time series of Trieste, Molo Sartorio, Italy (1869–2021) Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Fabio Raicich
Abstract. The sea level observations carried out at Trieste, Molo Sartorio, from 1869 to 2021 have been revised and updated. Information on the tide gauges and on the geodetic benchmarks on Molo Sartorio during that period have been collected. Basic quality checks have been applied. The hourly data for the 1917–1938 period, digitized from the original charts, have allowed us to build a time series
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IWIN: The Isfjorden Weather Information Network Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Lukas Frank, Marius Opsanger Jonassen, Teresa Remes, Florina Roana Schalamon, Agnes Stenlund
Abstract. In an effort led by the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), with support from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), the Isfjorden Weather Information Network (IWIN) is under development in the Isfjorden region, central Svalbard. The network substantially expands upon the relatively sparse existing operational network of weather stations and consists of compact and cost-efficient
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Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go? Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.815) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Karina von Schuckmann, Audrey Minière, Flora Gues, Francisco José Cuesta-Valero, Gottfried Kirchengast, Susheel Adusumilli, Fiammetta Straneo, Michaël Ablain, Richard P. Allan, Paul M. Barker, Hugo Beltrami, Alejandro Blazquez, Tim Boyer, Lijing Cheng, John Church, Damien Desbruyeres, Han Dolman, Catia M. Domingues, Almudena García-García, Donata Giglio, John E. Gilson, Maximilian Gorfer, Leopold Haimberger
Abstract. The Earth climate system is out of energy balance, and heat has accumulated continuously over the past decades, warming the ocean, the land, the cryosphere, and the atmosphere. According to the Sixth Assessment Report by Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this planetary warming over multiple decades is human-driven and results in unprecedented and committed