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Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of Golden Gate National Recreation Area to Sea-Level Rise
USGS Open-File Report 2005-1058

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Table 2: Sources of Data

Variables Source URL
(Not all sources are downloadable)
GEOMORPHOLOGY An oblique aerial photographic survey of the California Coast http://www.californiacoastline.org/
SHORELINE EROSION/ACCRETION (m/yr) Historical Shoreline Change and Associated Coastal Land Loss Along the California Coast, U.S. Geological Survey (Hapke and others, unpub. data) http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/shoreline-change/index.html
COASTAL SLOPE (%) NGDC Coastal Relief Model Vol 07 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) Pacific Coast WIS Data and National Data Buoy Center http://frf.usace.army.mil/cgi-bin/wis/pac/pac_main.html

http://seaboard.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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