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

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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.

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Acknowledgments

This research is the result of the Arctic Coastal Dynamics project (ACD phase 1), which was an initiative of the International Permafrost Association (IPA) and continued in cooperation with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) under the auspices of the Land-Ocean Interactions In the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) project. The authors wish to thank their home institutions for continuing support as well as the following program and institutions in supporting this work: ArcticNet, Polar Continental Shelf Project (PCSP), National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Russian Federal Target program “Scientific and academic teaching staff of the innovative Russia”.

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  1. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Research Section Potsdam, Telgrafenberg A43, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Hugues Lantuit, Pier Paul Overduin, Sebastian Wetterich & Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten

  2. International Permafrost Association, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Hugues Lantuit & Jerry Brown

  3. Northern Canada Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0E8, Canada

    Nicole Couture

  4. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Felix Aré

  5. International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, USA

    David Atkinson

  6. VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Georgy Cherkashov

  7. Earth Cryosphere Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia

    Dmitry Drozdov

  8. Geological Survey of Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

    Donald Lawrence Forbes & Steve Solomon

  9. Nunatech Technologies, Anchorage, AK, USA

    Allison Graves-Gaylord

  10. Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia

    Mikhail Grigoriev & Sergey Sedenko

  11. Antioch University New England, Keene, NH, USA

    James Jordan

  12. ABR Inc, Fairbanks, AK, USA

    Torre Jorgenson

  13. Gjovik College, Gjovik, Norway

    Rune Strand Ødegård

  14. Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Stanislav Ogorodov, Irina Streletskaya & Alexander Vasiliev

  15. McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Wayne H. Pollard

  16. International Arctic Science Committee, Potsdam, Germany

    Volker Rachold

  17. Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Frits Steenhuisen

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Classification nomenclature. Each segment of the classification was assigned a set of characteristics based on this table.

 

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Lantuit, H., Overduin, P.P., Couture, N. et al. The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines. Estuaries and Coasts 35, 383–400 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-010-9362-6

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