Subsidence and flooding in New Orleans

  • Dixon, Timothy H.
  • Amelung, Falk
  • Ferretti, Alessandro
  • Novali, Fabrizio
  • Rocca, Fabio
  • Dokka, Roy
  • Sella, Giovanni
  • Kim, Sang-Wan
  • Wdowinski, Shimon
  • Whitman, Dean

  • *Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33149, USA e-mail: [email protected]

    †Tele-Rilevamento Europa, 20149 Milan, Italy

    ‡Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy

    §Center for GeoInformatics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA

    ∥National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-3282, USA

    ¶Department of Earth Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA

Supplementary information accompanies this communication on Nature's website.

Received 28 January; accepted 12 April 2006.

doi:10.1038/441587a

Nature 441(7093):p 587-588, June 1, 2006.

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

Copyright © 2006 Nature Publishing Group
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