Evaluating land subsidence rates and their implications for land loss in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Zou, Lei ^a   Kent, Joshua ^a   Lam, Nina S N ^a   Cai, Heng ^a   Qiang, Yi ^a   Li, Kenan ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian kriging; Coastal Louisiana; Land loss; Mississippi Delta; Subsidence rates; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE; WATERSHEDS;

BAYESIAN KRIGING; COASTAL LOUISIANA; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; LAND LOSS; LAND SUBSIDENCE; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SUBSIDENCE RATE;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COASTAL EROSION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ELEVATION; EUSTACY; GEOACCUMULATION; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; LAND COVER; SUBMERGENCE; SUBSIDENCE; SUSTAINABILITY;

CENTRE-VAL DE LOIRE; FRANCE; JEFFERSON COUNTY [MISSISSIPPI]; LAFOURCHE PARISH; LOIRET; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; ORLEANS; PLAQUEMINES PARISH; TERREBONNE BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958959243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8010010     Document Type: Article

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