Is land subsidence increasing the exposure to sea level rise in Alexandria, Egypt?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2953-2957

  Wöppelmann, Guy ^a   Le Cozannet, Gonéri ^b   De Michele, Marcello ^b   Raucoules, Daniel ^b   Cazenave, Anny ^c   Garcin, Manuel ^b   Hanson, Susan ^d   Marcos, Marta ^e,f   Santamaría Gõmez, Alvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c LEGOS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^f IGN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alexandria; Coastal subsidence; GPS; InSAR; Sea level; tide gauge

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDRIA; COMBINED ANALYSIS; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; INSAR; PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY (PSI); POLICY DEVELOPMENT; TIDE GAUGES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; SUBSIDENCE;

SEA LEVEL;

COMPACTION; DELTA; DEWATERING; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GPS; GRAVITY FIELD; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL PLANNING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC SETTING; TIDE GAUGE; TIMESCALE;

ALEXANDRIA [EGYPT]; EGYPT;

EID: 84880551979     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50568     Document Type: Article

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