Coastal typologies and surface and subsurface characteristics of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast ...

• Main Authors: Piliouras, Anastasia, Jones, Benjamin, Clevenger, Tabatha, Rowland, Joel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Interdisciplinary Research for Arctic Coastal Environments (InteRFACE) 2023
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Alaska; Arctic; coastal erosion; geospatial; remote sensing; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION; shoreline orientation; landcover; lithology; geology; ecological landscape unit; maximum thaw settlement potential; massive ice content; segregated ice content; typology; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > SHORELINE DISPLACEMENT; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > COASTAL LANDFORMS; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > FROZEN GROUND > SOIL TEMPERATURE; latitude; longitude; Barrier Island; Beaufort Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15485/1915660; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1915660/

This dataset was generated to classify the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast (ABSC) into a set of distinct coastal typologies, to understand the surface and subsurface characteristics and variability of the ABSC, and to quantify relationships between these characteristics and historical rates of shoreline change. This geospatial dataset contains two csv files of points along the ABSC at a 50 m spacing, one for points sheltered by a barrier island and one for points exposed to the open ocean. Each point has a lat/lon location, and we have attributed to each point average values for elevation, historical long-term shoreline change rates, shoreline orientation, landcover, mean annual ground temperature, geomorphic unit, lithology, geology, ecological landscape unit, maximum thaw settlement potential, massive ice content, and segregated ice content. Each point is also assigned to one of 16 coastal typologies, determined by a hierarchical clustering algorithm on the elevation, shoreline change, orientation, and ground ...