Arctic coastal hazard assessment considering permafrost thaw subsidence, coastal erosion, and flooding

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Ziyi Wang, Ming Xiao, Dmitry Nicolsky, Vladimir Romanovsky, Christopher McComb, Louise Farquharson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2023
• Subjects: coastal hazards; thaw subsidence; hazard assessment; permafrost; Northern Alaska; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Arctic; Talik; Active layer thickness; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acf4ac; https://doaj.org/article/38749f712c2c4c89b3bfed4b05a42534

The thawing of permafrost in the Arctic has led to an increase in coastal land loss, flooding, and ground subsidence, seriously threatening civil infrastructure and coastal communities. However, a lack of tools for synthetic hazard assessment of the Arctic coast has hindered effective response measu...