A coastal hazards data base for the US East Coast
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New York, NY (United States). Goddard Inst. for Space Studies
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- Energy, Environment and Resources Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
This document describes the contents of a digital data base that may be used by raster or vector geographic information systems (GIS) and non-GIS data bases to assess the risk of coastlines to erosion or sea level rise. The data base integrates point, line, and polygon data for the US East Coast into 0.250 latitude {times} 0.250 longitude grid cells. Each coastal grid cell contains data on geology, geomorpholog,elevation, wave heights, tidal ranges, shoreline displacement (erosion), and sea-level trends. These data are available as a Numeric Data Package (NDP), from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, consisting of this document and a set of computerized data files. The documentation contains information on the methods used in calculating each variable, detailed descriptions of file contents and formats, and a discussion of the sources, restrictions, and limitations of the data. The data files are available on magnetic tape, on floppy diskettes, or through INTERNET.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States). Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 10190950
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/CDIAC-45; NDP-043A; ON: DE93003678
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: Environmental Sciences Division Publication No. 3913; PBD: Aug 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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