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