Toward a Predictive Model of Arctic Coastal Retreat in a Warming Climate, Beaufort Sea, Alaska

Abstract

The primary objective of my research is to study wave and turbulent processes acting in coastal, surf zone and high latitude settings. In the course of this research, I develop highly specialized instrument systems to measure the fluid motions that resolve both wave and turbulent motions, and the interaction of these motions with the fluid boundaries, for example with mobile beds in coastal regions. These observations are analyzed to seek simplified representations of the physics of these small scale processes in larger scale numerical models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA527165

Entities

People

  • Tim Stanton

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Regions
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Coastal Regions
  • Colorado
  • Fluids
  • High Latitudes
  • High Resolution
  • Ice
  • Information Operations
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Latitude
  • Low Noise
  • Measurement
  • Oceans
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Regions
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Polar and Arctic Studies