A coastal hazards data base for the U.S. West Coast
- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Center for Climate Systems Research
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States). Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Energy, Environment and Resources Center
This document describes the contents of a digital data base that may be used to identify coastlines along the US West Coast that are at risk to sea-level rise. This data base integrates point, line, and polygon data for the US West Coast into 0.25{degree} latitude by 0.25{degree} 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 bases. Each coastal grid cell and line segment contains data variables from the following seven data sets: elevation, geology, geomorphology, sea-level trends, shoreline displacement (erosion/accretion), tidal ranges, and wave heights. One variable from each data set was classified according to its susceptibility to sea-level rise and/or erosion to form 7 relative risk variables. These risk variables range in value from 1 to 5 and may be used to calculate a Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI). Algorithms used to calculate several CVIs are listed within this text.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-96OR22464
- OSTI ID:
- 661514
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/CDIAC-81; NDP-043C; ON: DE98003672; BR: KP1204010; TRN: AHC29814%%93
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: Environmental Sciences Division publication number 4590; PBD: Dec 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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