A global, self-consistent, hierarchical, high-resolution shoreline database

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 8741-8743

  Wessel, Pål ^a   Smith, Walter H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTS; DATA SETS; DATABASE; GLOBAL SHORELINE DATA; INTERNET ACCESS; NGDC CD-ROM; SHORELINE DATABASE;

EID: 0029749195     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00104     Document Type: Article

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