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A decade of remotely sensed observations highlight complex processes linked to coastal permafrost bluff erosion in the Arctic

October 11, 2018

Eroding permafrost coasts are indicators and integrators of changes in the Arctic System as they are susceptible to the combined effects of declining sea ice extent, increases in open water duration, more frequent and impactful storms, sea-level rise, and warming permafrost. However, few observation sites in the Arctic have yet to link decadal-scale erosion rates with changing environmental conditions due to temporal data gaps. This study increases the temporal fidelity of coastal permafrost bluff observations using near-annual high spatial resolution (

Publication Year 2018
Title A decade of remotely sensed observations highlight complex processes linked to coastal permafrost bluff erosion in the Arctic
DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/aae471
Authors Benjamin M. Jones, Louise M. Farquharson, Carson Baughman, Richard M. Buzard, Christopher D. Arp, Guido Grosse, Diana L. Bull, Frank Gunther, Ingmar Nitze, Frank Urban, Jeremy L. Kasper, Jennifer M. Frederick, Matthew A. Thomas, Craig Jones, Alejandro Mota, Scott Dallimore, Craig E. Tweedie, Christopher V. Maio, Daniel H. Mann, Bruce M. Richmond, Ann E. Gibbs, Ming Xiao, Torsten Sachs, Go Iwahana, Mikhail Z. Kanevskiy, Vladimir E. Romanovsky
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Environmental Research Letters
Index ID 70200025
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Alaska Science Center Geography
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