Remote Sensing Analysis of Recent Coastal Change and Controlling Factors in Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula (Beaufort Sea Coast, Canada)

• Main Author: Costa, Bernardo Miguel Batista da
• Other Authors: Vieira, Gonçalo Brito Guapo Teles
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic Coastal Change; Erosion; Submersion; Remote Sensing; Coastal Morphology; Geografia; Ordenamento do Território; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Northwest Territories; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Pleiades; Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula; Beaufort Sea; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice; Tundra; wedge*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/52111

The average rate of coastal change in the Arctic Ocean is -0.5 m/yr, despite significant local and regional variations, with large areas well above -3 m/yr. Recent data suggest an acceleration of coastal retreat in specific areas due to an increasingly shorter sea ice season, higher storminess, warm...