U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1249, Coastal Change-Potential Assessment of Sleeping Bear Dunes, Indiana Dunes, and Apostle Islands National Lakeshores to Lake-Level Changes, Table 2

Coastal Change-Potential Assessment of Sleeping Bear Dunes, Indiana Dunes, and Apostle Islands National Lakeshores to Lake-Level Changes
USGS Open-File Report 2005-1249

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Table 2: Sources of Data

Variables	Source	URL (Not all sources are downloadable)
GEOMORPHOLOGY	Aerial photography and surficial geology maps from state GIS organizations and NPS Natural Resource and GIS Programs	http://www.michigan.gov/cgi http://www.state.in.us/ingisi/ http://science.nature.nps.gov/nrdata/index.cfm
SHORELINE EROSION/ACCRETION (m/yr)	United States Great Lakes shoreline recession rate data (final report) (Stewart, 1994)	http://www.cjscons.com/downloads/RecREPORT1.pdf
COASTAL SLOPE (%)	NOAA/NGDC Global Land One-km base elevation project (globe)	http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/globe.html
RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE (mm/yr)	Preparing for a Changing Climate: Great Lakes Overview (Great Lakes Regional Assessment Group, 2000) and NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL, 2006)	http://www.geo.msu.edu/glra/assessment/assessment.html http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/now/wlevels/levels.html
MEAN WAVE HEIGHT (m)	Great Lakes WIS Data and National Data Buoy Center	http://frf.usace.army.mil/wis/wis_main.html http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/WestGL.shtml
MEAN ANNUAL ICE COVER (DAYS)	NOAA GLERL report: An Electronic Atlas of Great Lakes Ice Cover Winters: 1973 - 2002 (Assel, 2003)	http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/atlas/

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