ESS-DIVE is a CoreTrustSeal certified, freely accessible online platform, tool, and resource to store, share, and discover Environmental Systems Science (ESS) program data funded by the United States Department of Energy.

High-quality data at your fingertips
The amount and volume of Earth and ESS data has significantly increased, making it hard to find, store, and access. ESS-DIVE fills this gap by publishing and managing heterogeneous datasets from interdisciplinary projects.
The simple, easy-to-use platform allows anyone to freely access critical data for analysis, visualization, and more. We provide resources that enable researchers to contribute high-quality and standardized data that future researchers can access, interpret and reuse.

At-A-Glance
Data contributors
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Terabytes of data
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Visit https://data.ess-dive.lbl.gov/profile for Summary Metrics of ESS-DIVE’s Data Holdings
Connecting ESS scientists and building capacity

ESS-DIVE provides educational and hands-on training opportunities to obtain feedback and help expedite data management and publication efforts. We help others understand the most up-to-date ESS research and contribute to advancing scientific knowledge. We offer a platform and tool with the following capabilities at no cost to users:
- Access a growing number of datasets
- Download data in a variety of commonly-used formats
- Archive, manage, and share data in consistent formats
- Collaborate with team members through dataset sharing
- Obtain digital object identifiers that can be used to cite and track usage of data
We’re committed to supporting Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) and AI-Ready data
ESS-DIVE is a certified trustworthy data repository by CoreTrustSeal (CTS).
Our dataset metadata requirements, based on FAIR principles, have been tailored to meet the needs of ESS researchers. We are working on AI-Ready data formats to support the DOE’s Genesis Mission.
ESS-DIVE strongly encourages the use of reporting formats and open data standards for all datasets on ESS-DIVE. Our team reviews and provides feedback for each dataset that has adopted reporting formats. This process helps make data more machine-readable and AI-ready.
Our team reviews and provides feedback for each dataset that is submitted for publication to ensure that we have high-quality metadata. This process helps to make data more FAIR.
If you’re looking to search and use data, submit data, and share data…
Then you are in the right place! Our aim is to become the preferred location for archiving, accessing, and learning about Earth and ESS data.
