{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "PCMSC Science Data Coordinator", "hasEmail": "mailto:pcmsc_data@usgs.gov"}, "description": "Projected flood levels associated with compound coastal flood hazards for future sea-level rise (SLR) and storm scenarios are provided for Whatcom County, Washington, in a series of raster geotiff files. Projections were made using a system of numerical models with atmospheric forcing, tides, sea level position and stream discharge driven by output from Global Climate Models (GCMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). The resulting computed coastal flood levels along the Whatcom County coast due to predicted sea level rise and future storm conditions consider the changing climate. In addition to sea-level rise, flood simulations run by these numerical models included dynamic contributions from tide, storm surge, wind, waves, and seasonal sea-level fluctuations. In the absence of concordant downscaled GCM stream discharge, daily average stream discharge was fed to the model. Outputs include flood levels from the combinations of SLR scenarios (0, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 and 5.0 m) storm conditions including 1-year, 5-year, 10-year, 20-year, 50-year and 100-year return interval storms and a background condition (no storm - astronomic tide and average atmospheric conditions). Predicted flood levels during the largest annual astronomic tides (King Tide) in combination with an average storm surge scenario are also provided.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9I08NS5", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.fc257010-a162-4a3c-814f-b4a308b7d9c0.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_fc257010-a162-4a3c-814f-b4a308b7d9c0", "keyword": ["waves", "mathematical modeling", "climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere", "Wind", "Storms", "Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program", "Puget Sound", "Climate Change", "Water Level", "Ocean Winds", "earth sciences", "U.S. Geological Survey", "Beaches", "USGS", "CMHRP", "Erosion", "State of Washington", "coastal erosion", "Salish Sea", "Whatcom County", "USGS:fc257010-a162-4a3c-814f-b4a308b7d9c0", "Extreme Weather", "floods", "Sea-level Change", "Floods", "Sea Level Rise", "Bellingham", "Blaine", "Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center", "Oceans", "Storm Surge", "effects of climate change", "PCMSC", "Physical Habitats and Geomorphology", "Hazards Planning", "Ocean Waves", "sea level change"], "modified": "2024-02-13T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-123.11107, 48.64034, -122.47924, 49.04608", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Projections of coastal flood water levels for Whatcom County, Northwest Washington State coast (2015-2100)"}