Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology

A Gruber, T Scanlon, R Van Der Schalie… - Earth System …, 2019‏ - essd.copernicus.org
The European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative for Soil Moisture (ESA CCI SM)
merging algorithm generates consistent quality-controlled long-term (1978–2018) climate …

Global CO2 emissions from cement production

RM Andrew - Earth System Science Data, 2018‏ - essd.copernicus.org
The global production of cement has grown very rapidly in recent years, and after fossil fuels
and land-use change, it is the third-largest source of anthropogenic emissions of carbon …

[HTML][HTML] ICGEM–15 years of successful collection and distribution of global gravitational models, associated services, and future plans

ES Ince, F Barthelmes, S Reißland… - … system science data, 2019‏ - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract The International Centre for Global Earth Models (ICGEM, http://icgem. gfz-potsdam.
de/, last access: 6 May 2019) hosted at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences …

Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN): structure and data description (1992–2017)

A Driemel, J Augustine, K Behrens… - Earth System …, 2018‏ - essd.copernicus.org
Small changes in the radiation budget at the earth's surface can lead to large climatological
responses when persistent over time. With the increasing debate on anthropogenic …

Generation and analysis of a new global burned area product based on MODIS 250 m reflectance bands and thermal anomalies

E Chuvieco, J Lizundia-Loiola… - Earth System …, 2018‏ - essd.copernicus.org
This paper presents a new global burned area (BA) product, generated from the Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) red (R) and near-infrared (NIR) reflectances …

Gross and net land cover changes in the main plant functional types derived from the annual ESA CCI land cover maps (1992–2015)

W Li, N MacBean, P Ciais, P Defourny… - Earth System …, 2018‏ - essd.copernicus.org
Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) impacts local energy and water balance and
contributes on global scale to a net carbon emission to the atmosphere. The newly released …

Historical nitrogen fertilizer use in agricultural ecosystems of the contiguous United States during 1850–2015: application rate, timing, and fertilizer types

P Cao, C Lu, Z Yu - Earth System Science Data, 2018‏ - essd.copernicus.org
A tremendous amount of anthropogenic nitrogen (N) fertilizer has been applied to
agricultural lands to promote crop production in the US since the 1850s. However …

Global carbon budget 2015

C Le Quéré, R Moriarty, RM Andrew… - Earth System …, 2015‏ - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere is important to better …

Volcanic stratospheric sulfur injections and aerosol optical depth from 500 BCE to 1900 CE

M Toohey, M Sigl - Earth System Science Data, 2017‏ - essd.copernicus.org
The injection of sulfur into the stratosphere by explosive volcanic eruptions is the cause of
significant climate variability. Based on sulfate records from a suite of ice cores from …

Global atmospheric carbon monoxide budget 2000–2017 inferred from multi-species atmospheric inversions

B Zheng, F Chevallier, Y Yin, P Ciais… - Earth System …, 2019‏ - essd.copernicus.org
Atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations have been decreasing since 2000, as
observed by both satellite-and ground-based instruments, but global bottom-up emission …