USGS OFR 2010-1146: Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of the Northern Gulf of Mexico to Seal-Level Rise and Coastal Change, Table 1

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1146

Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of the Northern Gulf of Mexico to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Change

Table 1. Data sources from the original Gulf of Mexico CVI (Thieler and Hammar-Klose, 2000b) and the updated CVI for the Northern Gulf of Mexico presented here. Data sources with gray backgrounds were not used to calculate the updated CVI.

Published data sets	Data Summary	Data Source
Shoreline database	Global self-consistent, hierarchical, high-resoluiton shoreline shapefile (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html)	(Wessel and Smith, 1996)
World Vector Shoreline (1:250,000) Data (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_WVS_DMA_NIMA.html)	(Soluri and Woodson 1990)
Landform/Landcover Information	Orthophotographs, LANDSAT images, landcover shapefiles, and surficial geology maps provided by LOSCO and/or Google Earth	(LOSCO, 2007; Google Earth, 2009)
USGS Coastal Classification Mapping Project (http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/coastal-classification/)	(Morton and Peterson, 2005a-c; Morton and others, 2004, 2005)
Shoreline change databases (meters per year) and Land-area change maps (square kilometers per year)	The National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS Compilation of vector shoreline and associated shoreline change data for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1089/)	(Miller and others, 2004)
Shoreline Change History of Coastal Louisiana: 1800's-2005 (http://www.ladigitalcoast.uno.edu/PDFs/LUIS_ESRI_ShorelineMap_1855-2005_11x17.pdf)	(Martinez and others, 2006)
Coastal erosion and accretion: In the National Atlas of the United States of America (http://www.nationalatlas.gov/wallmaps_1970.html)	(Dolan and others, 1985)
Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana: A Multidecadal Perspective (from 1956 to 2006) (https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3019/)	(Barras and others, 2008)
Regional bathymetry and topography (meters)	NGDC 3 Arc-Second Coastal Relief Gridded Database Volumes 3-5 (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/coastal.html)	(Divins and Metzger, 2009)
NGDC 2-minute Gridded Global Relief Data (ETOPO2v2) (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/etopo2.html)	(U.S. Department of Commerce, 2006)
Relative sea-level change data (milimeters per year) and Vertical land movement (milimeters per year)	Regional Trends in Sea-Level (http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.shtml)	(NOS/ NOAA/ COOPS, 2006)
Post-glacial sediment load and subsidence in coastal Louisiana (http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/40959/1/07-0937.pdf)	(Ivins and others 2007)
Mean significant wave height stations (meters)	Wave information studies of U.S. coastlines (http://frf.usace.army.mil/cgi-bin/wis/atl/atl_main.html)	(Hubertz and others, 1996)

Published data sets

Data Summary

Data Source

Shoreline database

Global self-consistent, hierarchical, high-resoluiton shoreline shapefile (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html)

(Wessel and Smith, 1996)

World Vector Shoreline (1:250,000) Data (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_WVS_DMA_NIMA.html)

(Soluri and Woodson 1990)

Landform/Landcover Information

Orthophotographs, LANDSAT images, landcover shapefiles, and surficial geology maps provided by LOSCO and/or Google Earth

(LOSCO, 2007; Google Earth, 2009)

USGS Coastal Classification Mapping Project (http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/coastal-classification/)

(Morton and Peterson, 2005a-c; Morton and others, 2004, 2005)

Shoreline change databases (meters per year)

and

Land-area change maps (square kilometers per year)

The National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS Compilation of vector shoreline and associated shoreline change data for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1089/)

(Miller and others, 2004)

Shoreline Change History of Coastal Louisiana: 1800's-2005 (http://www.ladigitalcoast.uno.edu/PDFs/LUIS_ESRI_ShorelineMap_1855-2005_11x17.pdf)

(Martinez and others, 2006)

Coastal erosion and accretion: In the National Atlas of the United States of America (http://www.nationalatlas.gov/wallmaps_1970.html)

(Dolan and others, 1985)

Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana: A Multidecadal Perspective (from 1956 to 2006) (https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3019/)

(Barras and others, 2008)

Regional bathymetry and topography (meters)

NGDC 3 Arc-Second Coastal Relief Gridded Database Volumes 3-5 (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/coastal.html)

(Divins and Metzger, 2009)

NGDC 2-minute Gridded Global Relief Data (ETOPO2v2) (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/etopo2.html)

(U.S. Department of Commerce, 2006)

Relative sea-level change data (milimeters per year)

and

Vertical land movement (milimeters per year)

Regional Trends in Sea-Level (http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.shtml)

(NOS/ NOAA/ COOPS, 2006)

Post-glacial sediment load and subsidence in coastal Louisiana (http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/40959/1/07-0937.pdf)

(Ivins and others 2007)

Mean significant wave height stations (meters)

Wave information studies of U.S. coastlines (http://frf.usace.army.mil/cgi-bin/wis/atl/atl_main.html)

(Hubertz and others, 1996)

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