ACD GIS Data

A circum-Arctic GIS database to visualize and analyze coastal morphology, composition and dynamics.  The database may be:

• viewed online as an interactive map (hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute)
• downloaded as a Shapefile
• downloaded as a geodatabase

Please cite:

Lantuit , H., Overduin , P. P., Couture, N., Wetterich, S., Are, F., Atkinson, D,. Brown, J., Cherkashov, G., Drozdov, D., Forbes, D. L., Graves-gaylord, A., Grigoriev, M. N., Hubberten, H.-W., Jordan, J., Jorgenson, T., Odegard, R. S., Ogorodov, S., Pollard, W. H., Rachold, V., Sedenko, S., Solomon, S. Steenhuisen, F., Streletskaya, I., Vasiliev, A. (2012) The Arctic Coastal Dynamics database. A new classification scheme and statistics on arctic permafrost coastlines. Estuaries and Coasts, 35, 383–400, DOI 10.1007/s12237-010-9362-6.