In accordance with SO #3423 - The Gulf of America and SO #3424 - Mount McKinley and Landmarks Honoring the Alaskan People, new USGS data releases specific to those named places will utilize the new name Gulf of America and the restored name Mount McKinley. Per USGS practice, historical data will retain the name of the geographic features as they were known at the time the data were originally released.
Data Release
Beach Slopes of North Carolina: Salvo to Duck
By Kara S. Doran, Joseph W. Long, and Jacquelyn R. Overbeck
USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida
Summary
The National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards project derives features of beach morphology from lidar elevation data for the purpose of understanding and predicting storm impacts to our nation's coastlines. This dataset defines mean beach slopes along the United States Southeast Atlantic Ocean from Salvo to Duck, North Carolina for data collected at various times between 1996 and 2012. For further information regarding data collection and/or processing methods refer to USGS Open-File Report 2015–1053 (https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1053/).
Data
| File Name and Description | Metadata (XML format) | Metadata (text format) | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| NC_Raw_Slopes.zip Raw, non-interpolated endpoint slope data between the location of the Mean High Water and seaward-most dune toe elevations (.txt) |
NC_Raw_Slopes_metadata.xml |
NC_Raw_Slopes_metadata.txt |
NC_Raw_Slopes.zip (312 KB) |
| NC_Mean_Slopes.zip Mean slope data between the endpoint locations of the Mean High Water and seaward-most dune toe elevations, interpolated to a 200 m alongshore resolution using a 400 m wide Hanning window (.txt) |
NC_Mean_Slopes_metadata.xml |
NC_Mean_Slopes_metadata.txt |
NC_Mean_Slopes.zip (21 KB) |
Figure 1. Data location map.
Suggested Citation
Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Overbeck, J.R., 2015, Beach Slopes of North Carolina: Salvo to Duck: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7M906Q6.