GULF - Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: U.S. Gulf Coast
Description
The goal of this project is to quantify, at the 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 |
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55 |
Landing page for access to the data |
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds68/data/gulf/ |
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55 |
The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.effdcb16-1c58-45b9-85ec-67bb24ef5c49.xml |
Tags
- environment
- gulf-of-mexico
- sea-level-change
- usgs-effdcb16-1c58-45b9-85ec-67bb24ef5c49
- coastal-processes
- oceans
- beach-erosion
- elevation
- cmgp
- u-s-geological-survey
- coastal-geomorphology
- slope
- united-states
- misissippi
- erosion
- texas
- geoscientificinformation
- gulf-coast
- tide-range
- sea-level-rise
- coastal-and-marine-geology-program
- usa
- florida
- sea-level
- usgs
- shapefile-polygon
- wave-height
- shoreline
- woods-hole-science-center
- louisiana
- hazards
- coastal-hazards
- alabama
- shoreline-change
- north-america
- beach