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Understanding the causes of relative sea level rise requires knowledge of changes to both land (uplift and subsidence) and sea level. However, measurements of coastal uplift or subsidence are almost completely lacking in western Alaska. This project provided precise measurements of prioritized benchmarks across the Western Alaska geography, improving the network of published tidal benchmark elevations, allowing for tidal datum conversion in more places, and providing a necessary component for improved inundation studies in coastal communities and low-lying areas. The project’s map of vertical velocities (uplift/subsidence) of western Alaska (see ‘Final Project Report’ & ‘Vertical Velocity Map’, below) will be combined...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
COASTAL AREAS,
COASTAL AREAS,
COASTAL ELEVATION,
COASTAL ELEVATION, All tags...
COASTAL LANDFORMS,
COASTAL LANDFORMS,
COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
COASTAL PROCESSES,
COASTAL PROCESSES,
FLOODING,
FLOODING,
Federal resource managers,
INUNDATION,
INUNDATION,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
SEA LEVEL CHANGE,
SEA LEVEL CHANGE,
SEA LEVEL RISE,
SEA LEVEL RISE,
State agencies,
TIDES,
TIDES,
Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
completed,
elevation,
elevation,
geoscientificInformation,
geoscientificInformation,
map,
oceans,
oceans, Fewer tags
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Understanding the causes of relative sea level rise requires knowledge of changes to both land (uplift and subsidence) and sea level. However, measurements of coastal uplift or subsidence are almost completely lacking in western Alaska. This project provided precise measurements of prioritized benchmarks across the Western Alaska geography, improving the network of published tidal benchmark elevations, allowing for tidal datum conversion in more places, and providing a necessary component for improved inundation studies in coastal communities and low-lying areas. The project’s map of vertical velocities (uplift/subsidence) of western Alaska (see ‘Final Project Report’ & ‘Vertical Velocity Map’, below) will be combined...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
COASTAL AREAS,
COASTAL AREAS,
COASTAL ELEVATION,
COASTAL ELEVATION, All tags...
COASTAL LANDFORMS,
COASTAL LANDFORMS,
COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
COASTAL PROCESSES,
COASTAL PROCESSES,
FLOODING,
FLOODING,
Federal resource managers,
INUNDATION,
INUNDATION,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
SEA LEVEL CHANGE,
SEA LEVEL CHANGE,
SEA LEVEL RISE,
SEA LEVEL RISE,
State agencies,
TIDES,
TIDES,
Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
completed,
elevation,
elevation,
geoscientificInformation,
geoscientificInformation,
map,
oceans,
oceans, Fewer tags
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The Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (TEON) is intended to meet the need for a sustainable environmental observing network for northern Alaska. The TEON plan proposes collection of a time series of specific environmental variables in seven representative watersheds across northern Alaska. The Kuparuk River watershed is central to this plan both because of its location that bisects Alaska’s North Slope and its record of hydroclimatic data and research now surpassing 30-yrs. Nested catchments within and adjacent to this sentinel Arctic river system integrate climate and landscape responses from the Brooks Range foothills (Imnavait Creek and Upper Kuparuk River) to the Arctic Coastal Plain (Putuligayuk...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE,
AIR TEMPERATURE,
ATMOSPHERE,
ATMOSPHERE,
Academics & scientific researchers, All tags...
CRYOSPHERE,
CRYOSPHERE,
DISCHARGE/FLOW,
DISCHARGE/FLOW,
DRAINAGE,
DRAINAGE,
Data Acquisition and Development,
Datasets/Database,
Federal resource managers,
GEOMORPHOLOGY,
GEOMORPHOLOGY,
GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS,
GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE,
MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE,
Map,
Monitoring,
PERMAFROST,
PERMAFROST,
Policy makers & regulators,
Project,
SNOW COVER,
SNOW COVER,
SNOW DEPTH,
SNOW DEPTH,
SNOW/ICE,
SNOW/ICE,
SOIL TEMPERATURE,
SOIL TEMPERATURE,
SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE,
SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE,
SURFACE WATER,
SURFACE WATER,
Training/Outreach/Workshop,
VEGETATION,
VEGETATION,
WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY,
WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY,
biota,
biota,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
environment,
environment,
geoscientificInformation,
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters,
inlandWaters,
onGoing, Fewer tags
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This project established a permafrost monitoring network in this region, providing a baseline of permafrost thermal regimes for assessing future change at a total of 26 automated monitoring stations. Stations have collected year-round temperature data from the active layer and the permafrost starting from the summer of 2011. The strong correspondence between spatial variability in permafrost thermal regime and an existing ecotype map allowed for the development of a map of ‘permafrost thermal classes’ for the broader study region. Further, the annual temperature data was used to calibrate models of soil thermal regimes as a function of climate, providing estimates of both historic and future permafrost thermal regimes...
Categories: Collection,
Data;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
Collection,
Federal resource managers,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
PERMAFROST, All tags...
PERMAFROST,
Report,
State agencies,
Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov,
completed,
environment,
environment,
geoscientificInformation,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
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Understanding the causes of relative sea level rise requires knowledge of changes to both land (uplift and subsidence) and sea level. However, measurements of coastal uplift or subsidence are almost completely lacking in western Alaska. This project will result in precision measurements of prioritized benchmarks across the Western Alaska geography. This will improve the network of published tidal benchmark elevations, allowing for tidal datum conversion in more places, and providing a necessary component for improved inundation studies in coastal communities and low-lying areas.
Categories: Data,
Project;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
Data Acquisition and Development,
Data Management and Integration,
Federal resource managers,
LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags...
Map,
Presentation,
Project,
Report,
State agencies,
completed,
location,
location,
transportation,
transportation, Fewer tags
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