Arctic coastal hazard assessment considering permafrost thaw subsidence, coastal erosion, and flooding

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Wang, Ziyi, Xiao, Ming, Nicolsky, Dmitry, Romanovsky, Vladimir, McComb, Christopher, Farquharson, Louise
• Other Authors: National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2023
• Subjects: Active layer thickness; north slope; permafrost; Talik; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acf4ac; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acf4ac; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acf4ac/pdf

Abstract The thawing of permafrost in the Arctic has led to an increase in coastal land loss, flooding, and ground subsidence, seriously threatening civil infrastructure and coastal communities. However, a lack of tools for synthetic hazard assessment of the Arctic coast has hindered effective respo...