Relative sea level changes in northern Europe 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 northern Europe 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 8 different earth models. The results are provided in 1x1 grids for an area from 10 degrees W-70 degrees E longitude and 45-85 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 Steffen & Kaufmann (2005). The attached files represent RSL calculations from the best-fitting models to RSL data of certain regions in northern Europe, which are specified in Tables 1 & 2 of Steffen & Kaufmann (2005). The files are named rsl_SK05_skan_{earth-model}.nc where the 3-digit {earth-model} code refers to f75 - best-fitting GIA model with 3-layer earth model for northwestern European RSL data g76 - best-fitting GIA model with 3-layer earth model for Barents Sea RSL data j88 - best-fitting GIA model with 3-layer earth model for peripheral Scandinavian RSL data along the Danish, Norwegian and southern Swedish coast l79 - best-fitting GIA model with 3-layer earth model for Scandinavian RSL data p79 - best-fitting GIA model with 3-layer earth model for central Scandinavian RSL data around the Gulf of Bothnia sk1 - best-fitting GIA model with 7-layer earth model for Scandinavian RSL data sk2 - best-fitting GIA model with 7-layer earth model for northwestern European RSL data sk3 - best-fitting GIA model with 7-layer earth model for Barents Sea RSL data Longitude, latitude and the 19 time steps are specified in the nc files. RSL changes are in metres relative to anno 1950.