Drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts

AM Irrgang, M Bendixen, LM Farquharson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic coasts are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and
the loss of permafrost, sea ice and glaciers. Assessing the influence of anthropogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of the Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (115 ka to 25 ka)

AS Dalton, CR Stokes, CL Batchelor - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Laurentide Ice Sheet was the largest global ice mass to grow and decay during
the last glacial cycle (~ 115 ka to~ 10 ka). Despite its importance for driving major changes …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic Ocean glacial history

M Jakobsson, K Andreassen, LR Bjarnadóttir… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
While there are numerous hypotheses concerning glacial–interglacial environmental and
climatic regime shifts in the Arctic Ocean, a holistic view on the Northern Hemisphere's late …

[HTML][HTML] Erosion and flooding—threats to coastal infrastructure in the Arctic: a case study from Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

B Radosavljevic, H Lantuit, W Pollard, P Overduin… - Estuaries and …, 2016 - Springer
Arctic coastal infrastructure and cultural and archeological sites are increasingly vulnerable
to erosion and flooding due to amplified warming of the Arctic, sea level rise, lengthening of …

Variability in rates of coastal change along the Yukon coast, 1951 to 2015

AM Irrgang, H Lantuit, GK Manson… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Key Points Since the 1990s, parts of the Yukon coast are in a phase of enhanced shoreline
retreat Gravel features grew in areal extent since the 1950s and were largest in the latest …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid retreat of permafrost coastline observed with aerial drone photogrammetry

AM Cunliffe, G Tanski, B Radosavljevic… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
Permafrost landscapes are changing around the Arctic in response to climate warming, with
coastal erosion being one of the most prominent and hazardous features. Using drone …

Mineral weathering and the permafrost carbon‐climate feedback

S Zolkos, SE Tank, SV Kokelj - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost thaw in the Arctic enables the biogeochemical transformation of vast stores of
organic carbon into carbon dioxide (CO2). This CO2 release has significant implications for …

Coastal erosion of permafrost soils along the Yukon Coastal Plain and fluxes of organic carbon to the Canadian Beaufort Sea

NJ Couture, A Irrgang, W Pollard… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing uncertainties about carbon cycling is important in the Arctic where rapid
environmental changes contribute to enhanced mobilization of carbon. Here we quantify soil …

Terrain controls on the occurrence of coastal retrogressive thaw slumps along the Yukon Coast, Canada

JL Ramage, AM Irrgang, U Herzschuh… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Retrogressive thaw slumps (RTSs) are among the most active landforms in the Arctic; their
number has increased significantly over the past decades. While processes initiating …

Retrogressive thaw slumps temper dissolved organic carbon delivery to streams of the Peel Plateau, NWT, Canada

CA Littlefair, SE Tank, SV Kokelj - Biogeosciences, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
In Siberia and Alaska, permafrost thaw has been associated with significant increases in the
delivery of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to recipient stream ecosystems. Here, we …