Relative sea level changes in the southern North Sea from glacial isostatic adjustment modelling based on a spherically symmetric, compressible, Maxwell-viscoelastic earth model and the year 1998 version of the global ANU-ICE model

We provide relative sea-level (RSL) changes for the last 21,400 years for the southern North Sea based on glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) modelling using the global ANU-ICE model with the European ice model part from Lambeck (1993) and Lambeck et al. (1998), and 4 different three-layer earth models. The results are provided in 1x1 grids for an area from 0-11 degrees E longitude and 50-56 degrees N latitude. The software ICEAGE (Kaufmann, 2004) is used for calculating the grids. For details on the modelling and model input, we refer the reader to Vink et al. (2007). The attached files represent RSL calculations from the best-fitting models to RSL data of certain regions in northern Europe, which are specified in Table 1 of Vink et al. (2007). The files are named rsl_Vinketal07_northsea_{earth-model}.nc where the 3-digit {earth-model} code refers to h84 - best-fitting GIA model for northwestern German RSL data i85 - best-fitting GIA model for deep, southern North Sea RSL data as well as the whole southern North Sea RSL dataset listed in Vink et al. (2007) j84 - best-fitting GIA model for Dutch RSL data nb6 - best-fitting GIA model for Belgian RSL data Longitude, latitude and the 19 time steps are specified in the nc files. RSL changes are in metres relative to anno 1950.