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Nile Delta: Effect of a 130cm Sea Level Rise

 

Nile Delta: Effect of a 130cm Sea Level Rise

Areas in the Nile Delta threatened by flooding due to sea-level rise by 2100 assuming a global-warming induced rise of 100 cm plus a high tide of 30 cm along the Mediterranean coast.

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Identification Information
Citation
Citation Information

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

2008

Nile Delta: Effect of a 130cm Sea Level Rise

vector digital data

http://gu.icarda.org/geocms/public/en/cms/metadata/index/142/Nile+Delta%3A+Effect+of+a+130cm+Sea+Level+Rise/

Description

Areas in the Nile Delta threatened by flooding due to sea-level rise by 2100 assuming a global-warming induced rise of 100 cm plus a high tide of 30 cm along the Mediterranean coast.

WFP Workshop on "Climate Change and Food Security", Cairo, Egypt, 3-4 November 2008

Sources: Data on sea-level rise from IPCC, Working Group I: The Physical Science Base, 2007: Assessment Report 4, Chapter 5:Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level ( http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter5.pdf ), and from a press conference given on 9 October 2008 by Prof. Dr. Schellnhuber, Director of PIK and advisor to the German government, as reported by the German Press Agency dpa ( http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/236161,one-metre-sea-level-rise-this-century-scientists-say.html ). Information on tides from http://www.gacworld.com/egypt/Suez_Canal_Rules_HTML/suez_rules_web/html/sca%2093jo.htm and F. M. Eid, S. H. Sharaf El-Din, and K. A. Alam El-Din, 1997: Sea-level variation along the Suez Canal. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 44:5, pp. 613-619. DEM: Version 4 of the Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) digital elevation model with 3 arcsecond resolution (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/SELECTION/inputCoord.asp). Current coastline: SRTM Water Body Data (SWBD) (ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov).

Time Period of Content
Time Period Information
Single Date/Time

2008

publication date

Status

Complete

None planned

Spatial Domain
Bounding Coordinates

28.397229

34.918396

32.474314

30.000833

Keywords
Theme

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Hydrology

Sea level

WFP

Place

CWANA

Egypt

Nile Basin

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Point of Contact
Contact Information
Contact Person Primary

ICARDA, Geoinformatics Unit

International Center for Research in the Dry Areas

ICARDA, Geoinformatics Unit

+ 961 1 843472/813303

+ 961 1 804071/01-843473

icarda-gisu@cgiar.org

7.30 AM - 3.00 PM

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http://geonet.icarda.cgiar.org/geonetwork/data/regional/WFP/Egypt/Map/NileDelta_SeaLevelRise_2100_A3.tif

High Resolution (300dpi)

TIFF

Prepared by GIS Unit, ICARDA, 2008.

Data Quality Information
Attribute Accuracy

Data values for all stations have been checked for plausibility

Positional Accuracy
Horizontal Positional Accuracy

Geographical accuracy of all stations has been checked

Vertical Positional Accuracy

Elevation accuracy for all stations has been checked against GTOPO30 DEM

Lineage
Process Step

Creating the Metadata

2009

Process Step

Dataset copied.

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14370000

Spatial Data Organization Information

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70594

Spatial Reference Information
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Geographic

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Decimal degrees

Geodetic Model

D_WGS_1984

WGS_1984

6378137.000000

298.257224

Entity and Attribute Information
Detailed Description
Entity Type

Eg_130cmRise

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FID

Internal feature number.

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Attribute Domain Values

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute

Shape

Feature geometry.

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Attribute Domain Values

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Attribute

ID

Attribute

CONTOUR

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28.261

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Metadata Reference Information

20090730

Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary

International Center for Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDA

Francois Delobel

Consultant, Geoinformatics Unit

Contact Address

mailing and physical address

ICARDA, P.O. Box 114/5055

Beirut

Beirut

Lebanon

+ 961 1 843472/813303

+ 961 1 804071/01-843473

f.delobel@cgiar.org

FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

FGDC-STD-001-1998

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