Quantification of shoreline movements along the Yukon Territory mainland coast between 1951 and 2011

• Main Authors: Irrgang, Anna Maria, Lantuit, Hugues, Manson, Gavin K, Günther, Frank, Grosse, Guido, Overduin, Pier Paul
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: ACD; Arctic Coastal Dynamics; Classification; Digital Shoreline Analysis System extension for ESRI ArcGIS; Thieler et al; 2009; Digitized shoreline indicator; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Net shoreline movement; Rates of positional changes; SAT; Satellite derived; Satellite remote sensing; Transect; UTM Easting; Universal Transverse Mercator; UTM Northing; UTM Zone; Yukon_Territory_mainland_coast; Yukon; Canada; North America; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.874343; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.874343

The Arctic is warming, but the impacts on its coasts are not well documented. To better understand the reaction of Arctic coasts to increasing environmental pressure, shoreline position changes along a 210 km length of the Yukon Territory mainland coast in north-west Canada were investigated for the...