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Revision of the EPICA Dome C CO2 record from 800 to 600 kyr before present (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/17975) B. Bereiter, S. Eggleston, J. Schmitt, C. Nehrbass-Ahles, T. F. Stocker, H. Fischer, S. Kipfstuhl, and J. Chappellaz https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL061957

Global mosaics of the standard MODIS land cover type data S. Channan, K. Collins, and W. R. Emanuel ftp://ftp.glcf.umd.edu/glcf/Global_LNDCVR/UMD_TILES/Version_5.1/

The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system (http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/) D. P. Dee, S. M. Uppala, A. J. Simmons, P. Berrisford, P. Poli, S. Kobayashi, U. Andrae, M. A. Balmaseda, G. Balsamo, P. Bauer, P. Bechtold, A. C. M. Beljaars, L. van~de Berg, J. Bidlot, N. Bormann, C. Delsol, R. Dragani, M. Fuentes, A. J. Geer, L. Haimberger, S. B. Healy, H. Hersbach, E. V. Hólm, L. Isaksen, P. Kållberg, M. Köhler, M. Matricardi, A. P. McNally, B. M. Monge-Sanz, J.-J. Morcrette, B.-K. Park, C. Peubey, P. de~Rosnay, C. Tavolato, J.-N. Thépaut, and F. Vitart https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.828

High-resolution fields of global runoff combining observed river discharge and simulated water balances (http://www.compositerunoff.sr.unh.edu/html/Data/index.html) B. M. Fekete, C. J. Vörösmarty, and W. Grabs https://doi.org/10.1029/1999GB001254

The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database: spatially distributed datasets of soil coverage and soil carbon storage in the northern permafrost regions (10.5879/ECDS/00000002) G. Hugelius, C. Tarnocai, G. Broll, J. G. Canadell, P. Kuhry, and D. K. Swanson https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-5-3-2013

Towards global empirical upscaling of FLUXNET eddy covariance observations: validation of a model tree ensemble approach using a biosphere model (https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/geodb/projects/Data.php) M. Jung, M. Reichstein, and A. Bondeau https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-6-2001-2009

Atmospheric carbon dioxide variations at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/full.html) C. D. Keeling, R. B. Bacastow, A. E. Bainbridge, C. A. Ekdahl Jr., P. R. Guenther, L. S. Waterman, and J. F. S. Chin https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v28i6.11322

Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals (http://www.esa-soilmoisture-cci.org/node/145) Y. Liu, W. Dorigo, R. Parinussa, R. de~Jeu, W. Wagner, M. McCabe, J. Evans, and A. van Dijk https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.014

Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis (http://www.iac.ethz.ch/group/land-climate-dynamics/research/landflux-eval.html) B. Mueller, M. Hirschi, C. Jimenez, P. Ciais, P. A. Dirmeyer, A. J. Dolman, J. B. Fisher, M. Jung, F. Ludwig, F. Maignan, D. G. Miralles, M. F. McCabe, M. Reichstein, J. Sheffield, K. Wang, E. F. Wood, Y. Zhang, and S. I. Seneviratne https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3707-2013

MCD43C3 MODIS/Terra+Aqua BRDF/Albedo Albedo Daily L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG V006 (10.5067/MODIS/MCD43C3.006) C. Schaaf and Z. Wang http://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD43C3.006

GPCC's new land surface precipitation climatology based on quality-controlled in situ data and its role in quantifying the global water cycle (http://gpcc.dwd.de) U. Schneider, A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, M. Ziese, and B. Rudolf https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-013-0860-x

Fusion of Active and Passive Microwave Observations To Create an Essential Climate Variable Data Record on Soil Moisture (http://www.esa-soilmoisture-cci.org/node/145) W. Wagner, W. Dorigo, R. de~Jeu, D. Fernandez, J. Benveniste, E. Haas, and M. Ertl https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-I-7-315-2012

Reprocessing the MODIS Leaf Area Index products for land surface and climate modelling (http://globalchange.bnu.edu.cn/research/lai/lai_download.jsp) H. Yuan, Y. Dai, Z. Xiao, D. Ji, and W. Shangguan https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2011.01.001