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Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS) to Sea-Level Rise, USGS Open-File Report 2004-1020

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Table 2: Sources for Variable Data

Variables Source URL
GEOMORPHOLOGY Orthophotos from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the GIS Center at Radford University http://dnrweb.dnr.state.md.us/gis/data/data.asp

http://www.radford.edu/~geoserve/doqq/doqq_va_1_01.htm
SHORELINE EROSION/ACCRETION (m/yr) Historical Shorelines for Maryland coast (1843 -1989) from the Maryland Geological Survey. Virginia coast shoreline data (1849-1994) from the US Geological Survey
http://www.mgs.md.gov/

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/national_assessment/
COASTAL SLOPE (%) NGDC Coastal Relief Model Vol 02 http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/coastal.html
RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE (mm/yr) NOAA Technical Report NOS CO-OPS 36 SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1854-1999 (Zervas, 2001) http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/publications/techrpt36doc.pdf
MEAN WAVE HEIGHT (m) North Atlantic Region WIS Data (Phase II) and NOAA National Data Buoy Center http://bigfoot.wes.army.mil/

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
MEAN TIDE RANGE (m) NOAA/NOS CO-OPS Historical Water Level Station Index http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/usmap.html


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