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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Data | XML | Landing page for access to the data | Open resource |
| Original Metadata | XML | The metadata original format | Open resource |
Tags
- beach
- beach-erosion
- california
- cmgp
- coastal-and-marine-geology-program
- coastal-geomorphology
- coastal-hazards
- coastal-processes
- elevation
- environment
- erosion
- geoscientificinformation
- hazards
- north-america
- oceans
- oregon
- pacific-coast
- sea-level
- sea-level-change
- sea-level-rise
- shapefile-polygon
- shoreline
- shoreline-change
- slope
- tide-range
- united-states
- usa
- u-s-geological-survey
- usgs
- usgs-80328381-f2d0-4264-a3e9-a14b70b65bce
- washington
- wave-height
- west-coast
- woods-hole-science-center