Global DEM errors underpredict coastal vulnerability to sea level rise and flooding

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kulp, Scott ^a   Strauss, Benjamin H ^a  

^a Climate Central   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate impacts; Error analysis; Globe; Sea level rise; Srtm

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; FLOODS; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; SURVEYING; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACKING RADAR;

CLIMATE IMPACTS; GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE; GLOBE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; POPULATION EXPOSURE ASSESSMENTS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SRTM;

SEA LEVEL;

COASTAL ZONE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOODING; NOAA SATELLITE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84994577086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2016.00036     Document Type: Article

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