Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1609-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1609-2022
Research article
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05 May 2022
Research article |  | 05 May 2022

The effect of changing sea ice on wave climate trends along Alaska's central Beaufort Sea coast

Kees Nederhoff, Li Erikson, Anita Engelstad, Peter Bieniek, and Jeremy Kasper

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Diminishing sea ice is impacting waves across the Arctic region. Recent work shows the effect of the sea ice on offshore waves; however, effects within the nearshore are less known. This study characterizes the wave climate in the central Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska. We show that the reduction of sea ice correlates strongly with increases in the average and extreme waves. However, found trends deviate from offshore, since part of the increase in energy is dissipated before reaching the shore.
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