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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ftdtic:ADA532776 2023-05-15T14:52:29+02:00 Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska Wobus, Cameron W. Anderson, Robert S. Overeem, Irina COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER COOPERATIVE INST FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 2008-09-30 text/html http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA532776 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA532776 en eng http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA532776 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. DTIC 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) Text 2008 ftdtic 2016-02-23T04:20:02Z 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. Text 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 Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC Technical Reports database Arctic |
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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) Wobus, Cameron W. Anderson, Robert S. Overeem, Irina Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska |
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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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Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska |
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Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska |
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Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska |
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Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska |
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Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska |
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toward a predictive model of arctic coastal retreat in a warming climate, beaufort sea, alaska |
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