An integrated marine data collection for the German Bight – Part 2: Tides, salinity, and waves (1996–2015)
<p>Marine spatial planning requires reliable data for, e.g., the design of coastal structures, research, or sea level rise adaptation. This task is particularly ambiguous in the German Bight (North Sea, Europe) because a compromise must be found between economic interests and biodiversity sinc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Earth System Science Data |
| Online Access: | https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/2573/2021/essd-13-2573-2021.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>Marine spatial planning requires reliable data for, e.g., the design of
coastal structures, research, or sea level rise adaptation. This task is
particularly ambiguous in the German Bight (North Sea, Europe) because a
compromise must be found between economic interests and biodiversity since
the environmental status is monitored closely by the European Union. For
this reason, we have set up an open-access, integrated marine data
collection for the period from 1996 to 2015. It provides bathymetry, surface
sediments, tidal dynamics, salinity, and waves for the German Bight and is of
interest to stakeholders in science, government, and the economy. This part
of a two-part publication presents data from numerical hindcast simulations
for sea surface elevation, depth-averaged current velocity, bottom shear
stress, depth-averaged salinity, wave parameters, and wave spectra. As an
improvement to existing data collections, our data represent the variability
in the bathymetry by using annually updated model topographies. Moreover, we
provide data at a high temporal and spatial resolution (Hagen et al.,
2020b); i.e., numerical model results are gridded to 1000 m at 20 min
intervals (<a href="https://doi.org/10.48437/02.2020.K2.7000.0004">https://doi.org/10.48437/02.2020.K2.7000.0004</a>). Tidal characteristic
values (Hagen et al., 2020a), such as tidal range or ebb current velocity,
are computed based on numerical modeling results (<a href="https://doi.org/10.48437/02.2020.K2.7000.0003">https://doi.org/10.48437/02.2020.K2.7000.0003</a>). Therefore, this integrated marine data
collection supports the work of coastal stakeholders and scientists, which
ranges from developing detailed coastal models to handling complex natural-habitat problems or designing coastal structures.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1866-3508 1866-3516 |