Vulnerability of a subarctic barrier spit to global warming induced changes in storm surge and wave runup: Shaktoolik, Alaska

• Main Author: Ohman, Karin Anne
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2012
• Subjects: Physical oceanography; Meteorology; Geomorphology; climate; flood; runup; storm; surge; Bering Sea; Norton Sound; The Spit; Inupiaq; Sea ice; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1xd4884z; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m59s1sqd

The native Inupiaq community of Shaktoolik, in northwestern Alaska, is located on a low-lying barrier spit in Norton Sound. The inhabited portion of the spit is 7.1 m above MLLW at its highest and only ~200 m across. The community is vulnerable to marine flooding on both the open ocean and lagoon si...