This viewer examines the direct and indirect future impacts of sea level rise on Connecticut's coastal towns using an index based spatial model. It aims to guide stakeholders to understand the vulnerable regions and their underlying indicators to prioritize resiliency projects.
Cite this viewer as: Balleisen, Z., Onat, Y., Massidda, C., Fake, T. and O'Donnell, J. (2020)."Coastal Vulnerability Index Viewer", University of Connecticut, Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, Retrieved from https://vulnerability.circa.uconn.edu/ Last accessed:XX/XX/XXXX.
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The collected and gridded data layers are ordered from their highest to lowest values in the coastal boundary. The values are divided into five quantiles (0-20% represents the lowest 20% of the dataset, whereas 80-100% represents the highest quantile of data). Each quantile is assigned a rank value to relatively allocate the vulnerability of the layer to the climate hazard (0-20% is assigned to 1 (very low), similarly, 80-100% is assigned to 5(very high)). Thus, the contributor layers are created.