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New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding

Most estimates of global mean sea-level rise this century fall below 2 m. This quantity is comparable to the positive vertical bias of the principle digital elevation model (DEM) used to assess global and national population exposures to extreme coastal water levels, NASA’s SRTM. CoastalDEM is a new...

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Autores principales: Kulp, Scott A., Strauss, Benjamin H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31664024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12808-z