Nearshore oceanographic observations at Drew Point, Alaska, Summers 2009 and 2010

• Main Author: Katherine Barnhart
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2017
• Subjects: water temperature; water level; wave height; Drew Point, AK; Alaska; North Slope; Arctic; Alaska North Slope; Beaufort Sea; Ice; north slope; permafrost; Sea ice; wedge*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2CZ54

The Arctic climate is changing, inducing accelerating retreat of ice-rich permafrost coastal bluffs. Along Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast, erosion rates have increased roughly threefold from 6.8 to 19 m per yr since 1955 while the sea ice-free season has increased roughly twofold from 45 to 100 days si...