GULF - Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: U.S. Gulf Coast

Online link https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/catalog/whcmsc/data_series/DDS-68/gulf.shp.faq.html
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. [More]
Originators U.S. Geological Survey; Hammar-Klose, Erika S.; and Thieler, E. Robert

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