PACIFIC - Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: U.S. Pacific 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
55 Landing page for access to the data http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds68/data/pacific/
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P96R5K5R
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.80328381-f2d0-4264-a3e9-a14b70b65bce.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds68/data/pacific/

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  • environment
  • sea-level-change
  • coastal-processes
  • oceans
  • beach-erosion
  • elevation
  • cmgp
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • coastal-geomorphology
  • slope
  • united-states
  • erosion
  • geoscientificinformation
  • california
  • tide-range
  • pacific-coast
  • sea-level-rise
  • coastal-and-marine-geology-program
  • washington
  • usa
  • sea-level
  • west-coast
  • usgs
  • shapefile-polygon
  • wave-height
  • shoreline
  • woods-hole-science-center
  • hazards
  • coastal-hazards
  • usgs-80328381-f2d0-4264-a3e9-a14b70b65bce
  • shoreline-change
  • north-america
  • beach
  • oregon

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