Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska

The long-term goal of this project is to quantify the environmental drivers of extremely rapid coastal erosion in the Arctic, and to begin developing predictive models of future rates of coastal erosion resulting from climate change. Our study is focused on the Beaufort Sea coast within the National...

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Main Authors: Anderson, Robert S., Overeem, Irina, Wobus, Cameron W.
Other Authors: COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER INST OF ARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2009
Subjects:
Meteorology
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Thermodynamics
*ARCTIC REGIONS
*COASTAL REGIONS
*SURFACE TEMPERATURE
*EROSION
MODELS
MONITORING
ALASKA
RATES
METEOROLOGICAL DATA
OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
HEATING
PHOTOGRAPHY
CLIMATE
DATA ACQUISITION
PATTERNS
GEOGRAPHY
LAND AREAS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
SEA ICE
PREDICTIONS
OCEAN SURFACE
RESERVES(ENERGY)
TIME INTERVALS
POSITION(LOCATION)
Arctic
Barrow
Beaufort Sea
Climate change
Prudhoe Bay
Sea ice
Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea Alaska
Toward a predictive model of Arctic coastal retreat in a warming climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA527174
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA527174
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Summary:The long-term goal of this project is to quantify the environmental drivers of extremely rapid coastal erosion in the Arctic, and to begin developing predictive models of future rates of coastal erosion resulting from climate change. Our study is focused on the Beaufort Sea coast within the National Petroleum Reserve-- Alaska (NPR-A), approximately halfway between Barrow and Prudhoe Bay. We are focusing our efforts on collecting empirical data that will help us to develop process-based models of coastal change. Toward this end, we are monitoring erosion processes using time-lapse photography, collecting meteorological and oceanographic data from sites along the coast, and archiving climatic and geographic data from the past few decades to identify trends in coastline position through time. We anticipate that our project will help us to predict future patterns of coastal change as a function of projected changes in sea surface temperature, sea ice conditions, and changes in land surface temperatures.

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