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Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper USA, NOAA]
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https://coast.noaa.gov/floodexposure/ <-- shared NOAA page/resource
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H/T @joe Trimboli
“🌊 Sea-Level Rise Is More Than a Rising Waterline
One thing [the H/T has] noticed… is how much more NOAA data is now being maintained, organized, and made accessible for analysis…
That matters when we look at sea-level rise.
Modern sea-level mapping is moving beyond simply adding one, three, or six feet of water to a coastline. Current science considers multiple interacting processes, including ocean warming, ice-sheet and glacier loss, regional ocean circulation, vertical land movement, tides, storm surge, and local terrain.
The NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer brings many of these concepts together spatially, allowing users to examine potential inundation under different scenarios.
For [them], the larger GIS lesson is that the value is not necessarily in finding one perfect map. It is in having enough maintained, interoperable data to build a more complete understanding of the system.
Sea-level rise can therefore be viewed as a geospatial system of evidence connecting observations, projections, elevation, tidal conditions, hydraulic connectivity, flooding frequency, and uncertainty.
The more [they] work with these datasets, the more [the H/T] see[s] GIS shifting from simply making maps toward integrating continually expanding bodies of scientific evidence into a spatial model of change…”
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“Jumpstart community discussions about local coastal flooding hazards by developing maps that show the people, places, and natural resources at risk...”
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“This online visualization tool supports communities that are assessing their coastal hazard risks and vulnerabilities. The tool creates a collection of user-defined maps that show the people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding. The maps can be saved, downloaded, or shared to communicate flood exposure and potential impacts. In addition, the tool provides guidance for using these maps to engage community members and stakeholders. The current geography includes the East Coast, West Coast, Gulf of America, Great Lakes, and islands in the Pacific and Caribbean.
FEATURES:
• Visualize people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flood hazards
• Share online maps to communicate with and engage stakeholders…”
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