A Coastal Hazards Data Base for the U.S. Gulf Coast (1993)

Dataset · Fri Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/00066· OSTI ID:1389337

Gornitz, V. M. ^[1]; White, T. W. ^[2]

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1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration , Goddard Institute for Space Studies; OSTI
2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division

This document describes the contents of a digital data base that may be used to identify coastlines along the U.S. Gulf Coast at risk to sea-level rise. The data base integrates point, line, and polygon data for the U.S. Gulf Coast into 0.25° latitude by 0.25° longitude grid cells and into 1:2,000,000 digitized line segments that can be used by raster or vector geographic information systems (GIS) as well as by non-GIS data base systems. Each coastal grid cell and line segment contains data on elevations, geology, geomorphology, sea-level trends, shoreline displacement (erosion/accretion), tidal ranges, and wave heights.

• Research Organization: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
• Contributing Organization: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
• OSTI ID: 1389337
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English