Numerous coastal and marine actors, from both the public and private sectors, require bathymetric and surface sedimentological data for a wide range of economic applications and scientific analyses. With this publication, we establish an open-access, integrated marine data collection for the German Bight from 1996 to 2016 with bathymetric and sedimentological models that provide base data in an unprocessed form, as well as a range of base analysis products for easy accessibility.

We established an open-access, integrated marine data collection for 1996 to 2015 in the German Bight as a database of scientific, economic, and governmental interest. This paper presents data for tidal elevation, depth-averaged current velocity, bottom shear stress, depth-averaged salinity, and wave parameters and spectra at a high temporal and spatial resolution. Data are additionally processed into meaningful parameters (i.e., tidal characteristic values, e.g., tidal range) for accessibility.