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Mapping Areas Potentially Impacted by Sea Level Rise
The science surrounding global and regional projections of future sea level has grown rapidly in recent years, and depicts a worsening prospect of substantial amounts of sea level rise over this and following centuries. As a result, assessing and anticipating potential sea level rise impacts to coastal areas is now of increased importance. Analysis of elevation data in the context of projected sea level rise serves as one of the fundamental components needed to fully identify low-lying coastal areas that may confront impacts such as accretion and erosion, temporary flooding, and permanent inundation. Our work has centered on the analysis of digital elevation models (DEMs) to help delineate low-elevation coastal areas. We provide results from our elevation data analyses through the Web map visualization tools below. Analyses based on DEMs with a horizontal resolution of 1 km give an overview of low-lying coastal areas at regional scales. Analyses stemming from DEMs with a horizontal resolution of 30 m allow for viewing at more local scales.
all continents Conterminous U.S.A., Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Geospatial Environmental Modeling of Climatic Hazards and Their Impacts (climateGEM)
U.S. Geological Surver (USGS) GTOPO30
Strauss, B.H., R. Ziemlinski, J.L. Weiss, and J.T. Overpeck. 2012. Tidally-adjusted estimates of topographic vulnerability to sea level rise and flooding for the contiguous United States. Environmental Research Letters 7: 014033 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014033. Weiss, J.L., J.T. Overpeck, and B. Strauss. 2011. Implications of recent sea level rise science for low-elevation areas in coastal cities of the conterminous U.S.A. Climatic Change 105: 635-645. Overpeck, J.T. and J.L. Weiss. 2009. Projections of future sea level becoming more dire. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 21461-21462.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE Geospatial data delineating low-elevation coastal areas were developed by the University of Arizona and is the property of the Arizona Board of Regents, on behalf of the University of Arizona, Copyright (C) 2006. All rights reserved to the data, and all intellectual property rights to the data therein belong to the University of Arizona. By accessing the data, users consent to use them solely for informational purposes. Selling, distributing, publishing, circulating, or commercially exploiting the data without the express written permission of the owners of the data is expressly prohibited. Use of the data shall not convey any ownership right, title or interest, nor any security or other interest in any intellectual property rights relating to the data, nor in any copy of any part of the data.
DISCLAIMER: Users of these data agree by their use to hold blameless each and all individuals and organizations involved in their development for any liability associated with their use in any form. In addition, the data developers assume no responsibility or liability for actions or other information based on these maps. |
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