ARCTIC Effects of Storm Surges on the Beaufort Sea

• Main Authors: Coast Northern Alaska, Erk Reimnitz, Douglas K. Maurer
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Houle; Mer de Beaufort; Beaufort Sea; north slope; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.585.4751; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic32-4-329.pdf

ABSTRACT. In 1970, a major storm surge caused by gale-force westerly winds inundated low-lying tundra plains and deltas as far as 5000 m inland and left a driftwood line as much as 3.4 m above normal sea level along the Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska. The height of the surge followed a predictable pat...