The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines

Hugues Lantuit; Pier Paul Overduin; Nicole Couture; Sebastian Wetterich; Felix Are; David Atkinson; Jerry Brown; Georgy Cherkashov; Dmitry Drozdov; Donald Lawrence Forbes; Allison Graves-Gaylord; Mikhail Grigoriev; Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten; James Jordan; Torre Jorgenson; Rune Strand Odegard; Stanislav Ogorodov; Wayne H. Pollard; Volker Rachold; Sergey Sedenko; Steve Solomon; Frits Steenhuisen; Irina Streletskaya; Alexander Vasiliev

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The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines

Hugues Lantuit^*, Pier Paul Overduin, Nicole Couture, Sebastian Wetterich, Felix Are, David Atkinson, Jerry Brown, Georgy Cherkashov, Dmitry Drozdov, Donald Lawrence Forbes, Allison Graves-Gaylord, Mikhail Grigoriev, Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, James Jordan, Torre Jorgenson, Rune Strand Odegard, Stanislav Ogorodov, Wayne H. Pollard, Volker Rachold, Sergey SedenkoSteve Solomon, Frits Steenhuisen, Irina Streletskaya, Alexander Vasiliev

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Arctic permafrost coasts are sensitive to changing climate. The lengthening open water season and the increasing open water area are likely to induce greater erosion and threaten community and industry infrastructure as well as dramatically change nutrient pathways in the near-shore zone. The shallow, mediterranean Arctic Ocean is likely to be strongly affected by changes in currently poorly observed arctic coastal dynamics. We present a geomorphological classification scheme for the arctic coast, with 101,447 km of coastline in 1,315 segments. The average rate of erosion for the arctic coast is 0.5 m year(-1) with high local and regional variability. Highest rates are observed in the Laptev, East Siberian, and Beaufort Seas. Strong spatial variability in associated database bluff height, ground carbon and ice content, and coastline movement highlights the need to estimate the relative importance of shifting coastal fluxes to the Arctic Ocean at multiple spatial scales.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	383-400
Number of pages	18
Journal	Estuaries and coasts
Volume	35
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-010-9362-6
Publication status	Published - Mar-2012

Keywords

Arctic
Coast
Permafrost
Erosion
Carbon cycle
SOUTHERN BEAUFORT SEA
ORGANIC-CARBON
YUKON-TERRITORY
HERSCHEL ISLAND
LEVEL RISE
EROSION
SEDIMENT
CANADA
REGION
SHORELINE

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Lantuit, H. (Contributor), Overduin, P. P. (Contributor), Couture, N. (Contributor), Wetterich, S. (Contributor), Aré, F. (Contributor), Atkinson, D. (Contributor), Brown, J. (Contributor), Cherkashov, G. (Contributor), Drozdov, D. (Contributor), Donald Forbes, L. (Contributor), Graves-Gaylord, A. (Contributor), Grigoriev, M. (Contributor), Hubberten, H.-W. (Contributor), Jordan, J. (Contributor), Jorgenson, T. (Contributor), Ødegård, R. S. (Contributor), Ogorodov, S. (Contributor), Pollard, W. H. (Contributor), Rachold, V. (Contributor), Sedenko, S. (Contributor), Solomon, S. (Contributor), Steenhuisen, F. (Contributor), Streletskaya, I. (Contributor) & Vasiliev, A. (Contributor), University of Groningen, 30-Jun-2020
DOI: 10.1594/pangaea.919573
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Lantuit, H., Overduin, P. P., Couture, N., Wetterich, S., Are, F., Atkinson, D., Brown, J., Cherkashov, G., Drozdov, D., Forbes, D. L., Graves-Gaylord, A., Grigoriev, M., Hubberten, H.-W., Jordan, J., Jorgenson, T., Odegard, R. S., Ogorodov, S., Pollard, W. H., Rachold, V., ... Vasiliev, A. (2012). The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines. Estuaries and coasts, 35(2), 383-400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-010-9362-6

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