Coastal typologies and surface and subsurface characteristics of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast

Piliouras, Anastasia; Jones, Benjamin; Clevenger, Tabatha; Rowland, Joel

doi:10.15485/1915660

Title: Coastal typologies and surface and subsurface characteristics of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast

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This dataset was generated to classify the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast (ABSC) into a set of distinct coastal typologies, to understand the surface and subsurface characteristics and variability of the ABSC, and to quantify relationships between these characteristics and historical rates of shoreline change. This geospatial dataset contains two csv files of points along the ABSC at a 50 m spacing, one for points sheltered by a barrier island and one for points exposed to the open ocean. Each point has a lat/lon location, and we have attributed to each point average values for elevation, historical long-term shoreline change rates, shoreline orientation, landcover, mean annual ground temperature, geomorphic unit, lithology, geology, ecological landscape unit, maximum thaw settlement potential, massive ice content, and segregated ice content. Each point is also assigned to one of 16 coastal typologies, determined by a hierarchical clustering algorithm on the elevation, shoreline change, orientation, and ground temperature data. There are 9 sheltered typologies and 7 exposed typologies, identified by an integer label in the last column of each csv file. The other two csv files contain the integer IDs and classes for the landcover and geomorphology datasets.

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; Clevenger, Tabatha;

Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Vassar College
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Publication Date:: Sat Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2022

Research Org.:: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Interdisciplinary Research for Arctic Coastal Environments (InteRFACE)

Sponsoring Org.:: U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Alaska; Arctic; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > FROZEN GROUND > SOIL TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > COASTAL LANDFORMS; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > SHORELINE DISPLACEMENT; coastal erosion; ecological landscape unit; geology; geospatial; landcover; latitude; lithology; longitude; massive ice content; maximum thaw settlement potential; remote sensing; segregated ice content; shoreline orientation; typology

OSTI Identifier:: 1915660

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15485/1915660

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                    Piliouras, Anastasia, Jones, Benjamin, Clevenger, Tabatha, and Rowland, Joel. Coastal typologies and surface and subsurface characteristics of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast.  United States: N. p., 2022. 
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                    Piliouras, Anastasia, Jones, Benjamin, Clevenger, Tabatha, & Rowland, Joel. Coastal typologies and surface and subsurface characteristics of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/1915660

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                    Piliouras, Anastasia, Jones, Benjamin, Clevenger, Tabatha, and Rowland, Joel. 2022.  
"Coastal typologies and surface and subsurface characteristics of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/1915660.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1915660. Pub date:Sat Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2022

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  abstractNote = {This dataset was generated to classify the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast (ABSC) into a set of distinct coastal typologies, to understand the surface and subsurface characteristics and variability of the ABSC, and to quantify relationships between these characteristics and historical rates of shoreline change. This geospatial dataset contains two csv files of points along the ABSC at a 50 m spacing, one for points sheltered by a barrier island and one for points exposed to the open ocean. Each point has a lat/lon location, and we have attributed to each point average values for elevation, historical long-term shoreline change rates, shoreline orientation, landcover, mean annual ground temperature, geomorphic unit, lithology, geology, ecological landscape unit, maximum thaw settlement potential, massive ice content, and segregated ice content. Each point is also assigned to one of 16 coastal typologies, determined by a hierarchical clustering algorithm on the elevation, shoreline change, orientation, and ground temperature data. There are 9 sheltered typologies and 7 exposed typologies, identified by an integer label in the last column of each csv file. The other two csv files contain the integer IDs and classes for the landcover and geomorphology datasets.},

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