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Subsidence and flooding in New Orleans

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  • Timothy H. Dixon

    (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami)

  • Falk Amelung

    (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami)

  • Alessandro Ferretti

    (Tele-Rilevamento Europa)

  • Fabrizio Novali

    (Tele-Rilevamento Europa)

  • Fabio Rocca

    (Politecnico di Milano)

  • Roy Dokka

    (Center for GeoInformatics, Louisiana State University)

  • Giovanni Sella

    (National Geodetic Survey)

  • Sang-Wan Kim

    (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami)

  • Shimon Wdowinski

    (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami)

  • Dean Whitman

    (Florida International University)

Abstract

A subsidence map of the city offers insight into the failure of the levees during Hurricane Katrina.

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  • Timothy H. Dixon & Falk Amelung & Alessandro Ferretti & Fabrizio Novali & Fabio Rocca & Roy Dokka & Giovanni Sella & Sang-Wan Kim & Shimon Wdowinski & Dean Whitman, 2006. "Subsidence and flooding in New Orleans," Nature, Nature, vol. 441(7093), pages 587-588, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:441:y:2006:i:7093:d:10.1038_441587a
    DOI: 10.1038/441587a
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    1. Yilin Liu & Haijun Huang & Yanxia Liu & Haibo Bi, 2016. "Linking land subsidence over the Yellow River delta, China, to hydrocarbon exploitation using multi-temporal InSAR," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 84(1), pages 271-291, October.
    2. Susan Hanson & Robert Nicholls & N. Ranger & S. Hallegatte & J. Corfee-Morlot & C. Herweijer & J. Chateau, 2011. "A global ranking of port cities with high exposure to climate extremes," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 104(1), pages 89-111, January.
    3. Gómez-Baggethun, Erik & Barton, David N., 2013. "Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for urban planning," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 235-245.
    4. Jun Wang & Wei Gao & Shiyuan Xu & Lizhong Yu, 2012. "Evaluation of the combined risk of sea level rise, land subsidence, and storm surges on the coastal areas of Shanghai, China," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 115(3), pages 537-558, December.
    5. Craig E. Landry & Dylan Turner & Daniel Petrolia, 2021. "Flood Insurance Market Penetration and Expectations of Disaster Assistance," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 79(2), pages 357-386, June.
    6. Erica Tauzer & Mercy J. Borbor-Cordova & Telmo de la Cuadra & Susana del Granado & Carol Franco-Bellini & Carlos Medina & Jhoyzette Mendoza & Moory M. Romero-Fernandez & Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra, 2017. "A Vulnerability Research Framework for the Development of Early Warning Systems for Floods," Development Research Working Paper Series 02/2017, Institute for Advanced Development Studies.
    7. Qiwei Yu & Alexis K. H. Lau & Kang T. Tsang & Jimmy C. H. Fung, 2018. "Human damage assessments of coastal flooding for Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta due to climate change-related sea level rise in the twenty-first century," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 92(2), pages 1011-1038, June.
    8. Sen Zheng & Chongshi Gu & Chenfei Shao & Yating Hu & Yanxin Xu & Xiaoyu Huang, 2023. "A Novel Prediction Model for Seawall Deformation Based on CPSO-WNN-LSTM," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(17), pages 1-22, August.
    9. Zhaoqing Yang & Taiping Wang & Ruby Leung & Kathy Hibbard & Tony Janetos & Ian Kraucunas & Jennie Rice & Benjamin Preston & Tom Wilbanks, 2014. "A modeling study of coastal inundation induced by storm surge, sea-level rise, and subsidence in the Gulf of Mexico," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 71(3), pages 1771-1794, April.

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