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Earth System Science Data (ESSD) is an open-access scholarly journal devoted to the documentation and dissemination of data sets and data products in the Earth system sciences. Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, ESSD provides a formal venue for data papers that describe datasets, data products, and their processing, validation, and quality control. The journal emphasizes transparency, reproducibility, and reusability, requiring comprehensive data descriptions, metadata, methods, licensing information, and links to the data in stable repositories with persistent identifiers such as DOIs.

ESSD covers a broad range of topics across atmosphere, land, ocean, cryosphere, hydrology, and biosphere, as

All ESSD articles are peer reviewed and published open access. The journal encourages the use of standard

well
as
Earth
system
modeling
outputs
and
data
integration
efforts.
Submissions
typically
include
data
set
papers
and
data
product
papers
that
explain
data
provenance,
structure,
quality,
uncertainties,
and
recommended
usage.
The
focus
is
on
the
data
and
its
documentation
rather
than
on
novel
scientific
hypotheses,
with
an
emphasis
on
enabling
data
discovery,
reuse,
and
interoperability.
metadata
schemas,
data
availability
statements,
and
clear
licensing
or
usage
terms,
along
with
links
to
the
data
repositories.
The
publication
of
data
papers
under
ESSD
aims
to
improve
data
citation
practices,
promote
data
sharing,
and
provide
researchers
with
citable
credit
for
data
production.
Through
these
practices,
ESSD
seeks
to
support
reproducibility
and
evidence-based
synthesis
in
Earth
system
science.