Assessment of sea level rise impacts on human population and real property in the Florida Keys

Climatic Change

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-146

  Zhang, Keqi ^a   Dittmar, John ^a   Ross, Michael ^a   Bergh, Chris ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLORIDA KEYS; HUMAN POPULATION; LAND AREAS; LAND SURFACE; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; NON-LINEAR; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SEA LEVEL RISE; STUDY AREAS; TIPPING POINT;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURVEYING;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; LAND SURFACE; LIDAR; NONLINEARITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA KEYS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958803652     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0080-2     Document Type: Article

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