Challenge
The coastal energy infrastructure of several major U.S. cities is at risk from weather hazards and rising seas. In order to identify specific potential threats to critical infrastructure, a wide variety of data, from multiple sources and locations, must be analyzed.
Solution
A team chose four cities to focus on—New York, Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles—and combined numerous data sets, publications, and tools from the Digital Coast to identify and map areas that are likely to be severely affected, as well as to understand when impacts could occur. The information was shared with relevant city administrators, and the analysis is being extended to other cities.
