Rapid change in the Arctic is driving considerable coastal land loss and flooding hazards. These coastal hazards put people and infrastructure at risk. Quantitative tools designed for cold region settings, including ice and thermal processes, are necessary for constraining future risk and designing suitable adaptation options. Ongoing work at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is focused on developing predictive technologies to simulate future ice, ocean, and morphological states in response to future stressors. A demonstration of these in-development capabilities for select sites located within the Chukchi Sea along the Alaska, USA coastline is shown here.
