Numerical simulation of storm surges in the Beaufort Sea and coastal flood hazards in the Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories ...

• Main Authors: Kim, Joseph, Murphy, Enda, Ferguson, Sean, Provan, Mitchel, Nistor, Ioan, National Research Council Of Canada. Ocean, Coastal And River Engineering
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: National Research Council of Canada. Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering 2024
• Subjects: Arctic; Northwest Territories; Canada; Pacific; Tuktoyaktuk
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.4224/40003267; https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/object/?id=e30b4e8f-fc0e-4630-b94d-9bcfe5a3070d

The work described in this report was completed as part of the Coastal Flood Mitigation Canada project, which received funding from Defence Research and Development Canada's Centre for Security Science through the Canadian Safety and Security Program. The project included three coastal flood hazard and risk assessment case studies, one for each of Canada's Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific coasts. These case studies were designed to explore and demonstrate good practices to inform the development of new guidelines for coastal flood hazard assessment in Canada. As part of the Arctic case study, a coastal flood hazard assessment was performed for the Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. The primary objective of the coastal flood hazard assessment was to develop estimates of storm surge-driven flood hazards in Tuktoyaktuk for a range of events with defined return periods or annual exceedance probabilies (AEPs), which provided key inputs to a risk assessment by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). Several ...