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Add an Alaska Permafrost Vulnerability Index layer #43

Open robyngit opened 10 months ago

robyngit commented 10 months ago

In the publication "Toward a Permafrost Vulnerability Index for Critical Infrastructure, Community Resilience and National Security", researchers report on a new tool they created to assess the vulnerability of communities in Alaska to permafrost melt. By combining existing research and indices that look at infrastructure and permafrost conditions, they calculated an estimated "permafrost vulnerability surface" across Alaska. We would like to display this surface on the PDG portal.

Link to publication: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7086/3/3/27

Citation:

Alessa, L.; Valentine, J.; Moon, S.; McComb, C.; Hicks, S.; Romanovsky, V.; Xiao, M.; Kliskey, A. Toward a Permafrost Vulnerability Index for Critical Infrastructure, Community Resilience and National Security. Geographies 2023, 3, 522-542. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies3030027

Data type: From reading the publication text, I'm assuming this will be raster data

Data: The researchers say that source data is available in publicly accessible repositories, but there's no obvious indication of where to find the raster surface they created. @akliljedahl is emailing Alyssa to request this data.