ATLANTIC - Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: A Preliminary Database for the U.S. Atlantic Coast

Description

The goal of this project is to provide a preliminary overview, at a National scale, the relative susceptibility of the Nation's coast to sea-level rise through the use of a coastal vulnerability index (CVI). This initial classification is based upon the variables geomorphology, regional coastal slope, tide range, wave height, relative sea-level rise and shoreline erosion and accretion rates. The combination of these variables and the association of these variables to each other furnish a broad overview of regions where physical changes are likely to occur due to sea-level rise.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds68/data/atlantic/
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.cd752620-7439-4c5c-aeb1-b1aad3c86fbc.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds68/data/atlantic/

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  • environment
  • new-york
  • sea-level-change
  • coastal-processes
  • atlantic-coast
  • new-jersey
  • oceans
  • beach-erosion
  • virginia
  • elevation
  • cmgp
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • coastal-geomorphology
  • slope
  • united-states
  • maine
  • south-carolina
  • erosion
  • geoscientificinformation
  • connecticut
  • maryland
  • tide-range
  • sea-level-rise
  • coastal-and-marine-geology-program
  • north-carolina
  • usa
  • new-hampshire
  • u-s-atlantic-east-coast
  • florida
  • usgs-cd752620-7439-4c5c-aeb1-b1aad3c86fbc
  • sea-level
  • usgs
  • shapefile-polygon
  • east-coast
  • wave-height
  • shoreline
  • woods-hole-science-center
  • hazards
  • coastal-hazards
  • shoreline-change
  • rhode-island
  • north-america
  • beach
  • georgia
  • massachusetts

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