Coastal Storm Surge Identification, Classification, and Evaluation at Red Dog Dock, Alaska, 2004-2014

• Main Author: Wicks, Adam Joseph
• Other Authors: Atkinson, David
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: coastal; surge; Alaska; Red Dog; synoptic; flooding; EOF; Atkinson; Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Chukchi Sea; Chukchi; Chukotka; Chukotka Peninsula
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6020

The southern Chukchi and Bering Sea region regularly experiences powerful storms that bring high winds that cause positive and negative water level set-up (storm surges) events. Positive set-up events can cause coastal inundation, sometimes extending far inland for low-relief locations, and negative...