Historical and future coastal changes in Northwest Alaska

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1 A, 2012, Pages 174-186

  Gorokhovich, Yuri ^a   Leiserowiz, Anthony ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Coastal erosion; coastal geomorphology; shoreline change

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BEACH EROSION; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; HISTORICAL RECORD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLOPE; STABILIZATION; VULNERABILITY;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855391841     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-11-00031.1     Document Type: Article

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