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

The long-term goal of this project is to understand the environmental drivers of extremely rapid coastal erosion in the Arctic, so that we can begin to predict how present and future climate change might influence coastal evolution. Our study is focused on the Beaufort Sea coast within the National...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wobus, Cameron W., Anderson, Robert S., Overeem, Irina
Other Authors: COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER COOPERATIVE INST FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Test Facilities
Equipment and Methods
Thermodynamics
*MARINE CLIMATOLOGY
*BEAUFORT SEA
ALASKA
METEOROLOGICAL DATA
EROSION
OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
LAND AREAS
SEA ICE
ARCTIC REGIONS
OCEAN SURFACE
COASTAL REGIONS
DATA ACQUISITION
PRUDHOE BAY
BARROW BAY
NPR-A(NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE ALASKA)
SST(SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE)
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/ADA532776
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA532776
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Summary:The long-term goal of this project is to understand the environmental drivers of extremely rapid coastal erosion in the Arctic, so that we can begin to predict how present and future climate change might influence coastal evolution. 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. The original document contains color images.

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