The German Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht has recently carried out long-term and high resolution hindcasts of waves, wind, currents, water levels, seawater salinity and temperature for the North Sea. The hindcasts were done using atmospheric wind and pressure fields obtained from a dynamic downscaling of the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. The water level and current hindcast was carried out with the TELEMAC2D model with water level data measured at Aberdeen used as boundary condition. The wave hindcast was carried out using the wave model WAM in shallow water mode. The atmosphere hindcast was carried out using the REMO model. See Weisse and Plüß (2006), Weisse and Günther (2007) and Feser et al. (2001) and references therein for a detailed description of the flow, wave and atmosphere hindcasts, respectively.