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

• Main Authors: Anderson, Robet S, Overeem, Irina, Wobus, Cameron W
• Other Authors: COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER INST OF ARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Atmospheric Physics; *CLIMATE; ALASKA; ARCTIC REGIONS; BAYS; BEAUFORT SEA; COASTAL REGIONS; EROSION; PREDICTIONS; Arctic; Barrow; Beaufort Sea; Climate change; Prudhoe Bay; 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/ADA557134; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA557134

The long-term goal of this project is to quantify the environmental drivers of 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.