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There are 95 datasets described below.

Dataset info	Type	Origin	Description	Data example
3D Land Mapping	Land Cover	Measured	Combining Lidar and Radar for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces
A ~6km Daily Obserational Hydrometeorology data set, 1950-2013: North American Extent dataset	Climate	Measured	Daily Obserational Hydrometeorology data set: North American Extent
AI&ML Challenge Dataset	Substrates	Measured	Machine Learning 'Challenge Dataset' for the Seabed
ASTER	Topography	Measured	Global topography from NASA's and METI's (Japan) Terra satellite
Aerial images Fraser GST	Topography	Measured	Aerial images of Fraser GST zone
African Sediment Yield Dataset	River discharge	Measured	Measured sediment yields of African rivers
AgeGrid	Substrates	Modeled	Age, Spreading Rates and Spreading Asymmetry of the World's Ocean Crust
CGIAR-CSI SRTM	Topography	Modeled	Improved and void-filled global topographic model of the SRTM data; 3 arc-second (~90 m) cell size
Clara Orru - measured data of a degradational sand-gravel laboratory experiment	Topography	Measured	measured data from a degradational sand-gravel laboratory experiment
Coastal DEMs	Topography	Modeled	High-resolution, integrated bathymetric-topographic relief models of U.S. coastal communities; 1/3 arc-second (~10 m) cell size and coarser
DBSEABED	Substrates	Measured	dbSEABED Gridded Data Release: Gulf of Mexico	File:Gomex dbSBD CSDMS Jun2024.zip
DDM30	Hydrography	Modeled	Global drainage direction map
Dartmouth Flood Observatory	River discharge	Measured	Dartmouth Flood Observatory: Space-based Measurement of Surface Water
E-OBS	Climate	Measured	E-OBS is a daily gridded observational dataset for precipitation and temperature in Europe based on ECA&D information.
ERA5	Climate	Modeled	ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF reanalysis for the global climate and weather for the past 8 decades. Data is available from 1940 onwards. ERA5 replaces the ERA-Interim reanalysis.
ETOPO1	Topography	Modeled	Global integrated bathymetric-topographic relief model; 1 arc-minute (~2 km) cell size
Experimentalist Data Catalog	Surface properties	Measured	Experimental datasets offered by the Sediment Experimentalist Network
GEBCO	Topography	Modeled	Global integrated bathymetric-topographic relief model; 1 arc-minute (~2 km) and 30 arc-second (~1 km) cell sizes
GHSL	Human dimensions	Measured	Global Human Settlement layer
GIMMS	Land Cover	Measured	Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS)
GLC-SHARE	Land Cover	Measured	Global Land Cover-SHARE (GLC-SHARE) provides access to an assembled product of global land cover.
GLOBALSOD	Climate	Measured	NOAA Daily Global Summary of Day (GLOBALSOD) Station Data
GLOBE	Topography	Modeled	Global topographic relief model; 30 arc-second (~1 km) cell size
GLiM	Surface properties	Measured	Global Lithological Map
GMIA	Human dimensions	Measured	Global Map of Irrigation Areas (version 5.0)
GPW	Human dimensions	Modeled	Gridded Population of the World
GRDC	River discharge	Measured	Glocal Runoff Data Centre
GSHAP	Surface properties	Measured	Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program
GSHHG	Topography	Measured	Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database
GTOPO30	Topography	Modeled	GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model with a horizontal resolution of 30 arc seconds.
Geomaterials Vocab	Substrates	Measured	A Structured Vocabulary for Geomaterials
Geomorpho90m	Land Cover	Measured	A global dataset comprising of different geomorphometric features derived from the MERIT-Digital Elevation Model (DEM) - the best global, high-resolution DEM available.
GlobCover	Land Cover	Measured	Global Land Cover Map
Global Cropland Area (1960-2100)	Land Cover	Modeled	Global Cropland Area predictions by the GLUDM model
Global Forest Heights	Land Cover	Measured	Forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar
Global Multibeam Bathymetry	Topography	Measured	NGDC's global database of multibeam swath sonar bathymetric surveys
Global River and Delta Systems	River discharge	Measured	Global River and Delta Systems
Global Topography	Topography	Modeled	Global estimated bathymetric and integrated bathy-topo relief models; 1 minute (~2 km) and 30 arc-second (~1 km) cell sizes
Great Bay, NH - BBL Data June 2011	Oceanography	Measured	Fine resolution bottom boundary layer velocity measurements in a tidal estuary
Great Lakes Bathymetry	Topography	Modeled	Bathymetric models and contours of the Great Lakes; 3 arc-second (~90 m) cell size
HWSD	Surface properties	Measured	Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD)
HYDAT	River discharge	Measured	HYDAT - Online access to historical water levels, streamflow and sediment data of Canada
HYDRO1k	Hydrography	Modeled	HYDRO1k is a geographic database providing comprehensive and consistent global coverage of optographically derived data sets.
Hooshmand etal JGR2015	Oceanography	Measured	Wave-supported mud layer laboratory data
HydroLAKES	Hydrography	Measured	HydroLAKES is a database aiming to provide the shoreline polygons of all global lakes with a surface area of at least 10 ha.
HydroSHEDS	Hydrography	Modeled	Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales.
IBCAO	Topography	Modeled	Integrated bathymetric-topographic relief model of the Arctic Ocean; 500-meter cell size
ICE-5G	Cryosphere	Modeled	Global Grids of Ice Sheet Thickness and Paleotopography for 21,000 - present day
IEDA data services for observational Geoscience data	Oceanography	Measured	IEDA or Integrated Earth Data Applications provides data services for observational Geoscience data from the Ocean, Earth, and Polar Sciences
LUSoils v.1	Land Cover	Modeled	Linking global land use and land cover to hydrologic soil groups from 850 to 2015.
MERIT DEM	Topography	Measured	The MERIT DEM was developed by removing multiple error components from existing spaceborne DEMs (SRTM3 and AW3D)
MLD	Oceanography	Measured	Ocean mixed layer depth climatology
Marine Geophysical Trackline Data	Topography	Measured	NGDC's global database of marine trackline surveys; contains bathymetry, magnetics, gravity and seismic navigation data
Modeled Suspended Sediment in Global Rivers	River discharge	Modeled	Modeled Global Suspended Sediment Flux
NCED data repository	Surface properties	Measured	Data from or related to the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED)
NED	Topography	Modeled	U.S. National Elevation Dataset (NED) topographic relief model; 1/9 arc-second (~3 m) cell size to 2 arc-second (~60 m) cell size
NGDC Coastal Relief Model	Topography	Modeled	Integrated bathymetric-topographic relief models of U.S. coasts; 3 arc-second (~90 m) cell size
NHD	Hydrography	Measured	The National Hydrography Dataset
NLCD 1992	Land Cover	Modeled	National Land Cover Dataset 1992
NLCD 2001	Land Cover	Modeled	National Land Cover Database of 2001
NOSHDB	Topography	Measured	Database of U.S. hydrographic surveys conducted by NOAA's National Ocean Service
NRLP India	River discharge	Modeled	Proposed canals and dams data for the Indian Rivers Interlinking project
NWIS	River discharge	Measured	National Water Information System (NWIS)
National Climatic Data Center HDSS Access System	Climate	Measured	Access portal for US weather radar data, satellite data, and additional (US and international) historical weather forecasts and data
Nearshore Oceanographic Observations at Drew Point, Alaska, Summers 2009 and 2010	Oceanography	Measured	Nearshore Oceanographic Observations at Drew Point, Alaska, Summers 2009 and 2010
North America 3 arcsec drainage area	Hydrography	Modeled	The drainage area of North America at 3 arc sec resolution, from 7°N, 55°W to 60°N, 142°W
North American River Width Data Set (NARWidth)	Hydrography	Measured	NARWidth is composed of planform morphometric measurements of North American rivers at approximately mean discharge
OSCAR	Oceanography	Measured	Ocean Surface Current Analyses - Real time
OneGeology	Substrates	Modeled	Datawarehouse to create a digital geological map of the world
OpenTopography	Topography	Modeled	Community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources.
PMIP 2	Climate	Modeled	Output from the second Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project
PSMSL	Sea level	Measured	Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)
Permafrost Temperatures, Alaska	Cryosphere	Measured	U.S. Geological Survey's Borehole Temperature Logs from Arctic Alaska, pre-1989
R-ArcticNet	River discharge	Measured	R-ArcticNet (v4.0) - A Regional, Electronic, Hydrographic Data Network For the Arctic Region
RESSED	Surface properties	Measured	The Reservoir Sedimentation Database
Realtime Permafrost Alaska	Cryosphere	Measured	U.S. Geological Survey: Real-Time Permafrost and Climate Monitoring Network - Arctic Alaska
ReefBase	Oceanography	Measured	A global information system for coral reefs
SRTM	Topography	Measured	Global topography from NASA's 2000 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
SSURGO	Surface properties	Measured	SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic database) refers to digital soils data produced and distributed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) - National Cartography and Geospatial Center (NCGC).
STATSGO	Surface properties	Measured	The U.S. General Soil Map
SWBD	Hydrography	Measured	Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Water Body Dataset
Sage	River discharge	Measured	Global River Discharge Database
Sea Ice Concentrations NSIDC	Cryosphere	Measured	Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave Data
Sediment Thickness of worlds oceans	Oceanography	Measured	Total Sediment Thickness of the World's Oceans & Marginal Seas
SoilGrids — global gridded soil information	Surface properties	Measured	SoilGridsTM is a system for global digital soil mapping that uses state-of-the-art machine learning methods to map the spatial distribution of soil properties across the globe.
Southern Alaska Coastal Relief Model	Topography	Modeled	Integrated bathymetric-topographic relief model of Southern Alaska; 24 arc-second cell size
TPXO6.2	Oceanography	Modeled	Global Inverse Tide Model
TRMM	Climate	Measured	Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
UNPD	Human dimensions	Modeled	United Nations Population Database (1950 - 2050)
WaveWatch III^TM	Oceanography	Modeled	WAVEWATCH III™ (Tolman 1997, 1999a, 2009) is a third generation wave model developed at NOAA/NCEP in the spirit of the WAM model (WAMDIG 1988, Komen et al. 1994). Simulation results contain waves & swells Hs, direction, period, wind direction, etc.
World Glacier Inventory	Cryosphere	Measured	Information on glaciers for over 100,000 glaciers through out the world served by the National Snow and Ice Data Center
World Ocean Atlas 2001	Oceanography	Measured	World Ocean Atlas 2001 (WOA01)
World Ocean atlas	Oceanography	Measured	World Ocean Atlas 2009
World River Sediment Yields Database	River discharge	Measured	This database contains data on annual sediment yields in worldwide rivers and reservoirs, searchable by river, country and continent.
World Vector Shoreline	Topography	Measured	World Vector Shoreline