Definition: The morphological space is the absolute value of the difference between the maximum and minimum height of a location over the course of several time steps. It can be used to identify morphologically stable areas that can be considered as potential areas for construction projects, for example. Data generation: The basis for bathymetric products are rasterized bathymetric models, which are created using the functional soil model, a data-based hindcast simulation model, using spatio-temporal interpolation methods from a database of sea and land surveys of various data types. For each year from 1996 up to and including 2016, a grid bathymetric model with a resolution of 10 m for the German Bight and an additional resolution of 250 m for the Exclusive Economic Zone for the year 1996 is created. For the German Bight, the morphological space is calculated for each grid node by determining the highest and lowest z-value over a 21-year period from the bathymetric models and calculating the zmax-zmin difference. The maximum range of seabed elevation is plotted at each point. Since it is an evaluation of several time steps, the morphological space cannot be determined for the Exclusive Economic Zone. Product: 10 m grid of the German Bight, with the amount of the morphological space over the period 1996 to 2016 stored at each grid node. The product is provided in GeoTiff format. English Download: The data for download can be found under References ("further references"), where the data can be downloaded directly or via the web page redirection to the EasyGSH-DB portal. For further information, please refer to the download portal (https://mdi-de.baw.de/easygsh/EasyEN_index.html).
