Tidally adjusted estimates of topographic vulnerability to sea level rise and flooding for the contiguous United States

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Strauss, Benjamin H ^a   Ziemlinski, Remik ^a   Weiss, Jeremy L ^b   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^b  

^a Climate Central   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; coastal flooding; flooding; hazard mapping; sea level rise; VDatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859364197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014033     Document Type: Article

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