Tidally adjusted estimates of topographic vulnerability to sea level rise and flooding for the contiguous United States
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014033