Assessment of coastal erosion and flooding hazard in the Beaufort Sea coast

• Main Authors: Vieira, Gonçalo, Whalen, Dustin, Irrgang, Anna, Mora, Carla, Canário, João, Freitas, Pedro, Pinheiro, Daniel, Lantuit, Hugues
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Tuktoyaktuk; Pleiades; Amundsen Bay; Paulatuk; King Point; Beaufort Sea; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53353/; https://arcticnetmeetings.ca//docs/asm2019-abstracts.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.c5a11ca8-1476-45c7-9b6c-61788f35aac3

Arctic permafrost coasts are major carbon (Schuur et al., 2015) and mercury pools (Schuster et al 2018) and represent about 34% of Earth's coastline, with large sectors affected by high erosion rates (Fritz et al, 2017), increasingly affecting coastal communities. Year-round reduction in Arctic...