GULF - Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: U.S. Gulf Coast

The goal of this project is to quantify, at the National scale, the relative susceptibility of the Nation's coast to sea-level rise through the use of a coastal vulnerability index (CVI). This initial classification is based upon the variables geomorphology, regional coastal slope, tide range, wave height, relative sea-level rise and shoreline erosion and accretion rates. The combination of these variables and the association of these variables to each other furnish a broad overview of regions where physical changes are likely to occur due to sea-level rise.本项目旨在以国家尺度为基准，借助海岸脆弱性指数（Coastal Vulnerability Index, CVI）量化该国沿海区域受海平面上升影响的相对易损性。本次初始分类所依托的变量包括地貌、区域海岸坡度、潮差、波高、相对海平面上升速率，以及海岸线侵蚀与淤积速率。将上述变量加以整合并考量变量间的相互关联，可全面概览海平面上升可能引发物理变化的区域分布。