Table 3 Highest projected vulnerability results for all models, scenarios and top 3 regions and communities

From: An integrative climate change vulnerability index for Arctic aviation and marine transportation

Vulnerability model

Vulnerability

future scenarios

Vulnerability

(excluding outliers)

Vulnerability

future scenarios

(excluding outliers)

Regions

vulnerability

(airport + marine)

Communities

vulnerability

(airport + marine)

Top vulnerability drivers at baseline

Top

RCP 4.5

Top

RCP 8.5

Mean baseline

Top mean

RCP 4.5

Top mean

RCP 8.5

Ranked top 3

Ranked top 3

Rain

airport

2100

2100

0.36

0.58

0.63

(1) Nunatsiavut

(2) Nunavut

(3) Nunavik

(1) Coral Harbor

(2) Rigolet

(3) Whale Cove

(1) Marine sensitivity

(2) Airport sensitivity

(3) Disaster sensitivity

Rain

marine

2100

2100

0.39

0.61

0.67

Snow

airport

Equal

2040

0.30

0.41

0.41

(1) Nunatsiavut

(2) Nunavut

(3) Nunavik/

Inuvialuit

(1) Naujaat

(2) Rankin Inlet

(3) Coral Harbor

(1) Marine sensitivity

(2) Marine sensitivity

(3) Marine sensitivity

Snow

marine

2040

2040/

2070

0.33

0.45

0.44

Temperature DJF airport

2100

2100

0.37

0.64

0.69

(1) Nunatsiavut

(2) Nunavik

(3) Nunavut/

Inuvialuit

(1) Rigolet

(2) Coral Harbor

(3) Whale Cove

(1) Winter exposure

(2) Marine sensitivity

(3) Disaster sensitivity

Temperature DJF marine

2100

2100

0.40

0.67

0.72

Temperature JJA airport

2100

2100

0.41

0.69

0.72

(1) Inuvialuit

(2) Nunavut

(3) Nunavik

(1) Whale Cove

(2) Rigolet

(3) Baker Lake

(1) Disaster sensitivity

(2) Summer exposure

(3) Marine sensitivity

Temperature JJA marine

2100

2100

0.44

0.71

0.75

Sea level rise airport

2040

2040

0.35

0.43

0.44

(1) Inuvialuit

(2) Nunavut

(3) Nunatsiavut

(1) Tuktoyaktuk

(2) Kugluktuk

(3) Pangnirtung

(1) Marine sensitivity

(2) Marine sensitivity

(3) Disaster sensitivity

Sea level rise marine

2040

2040

0.28

0.53

0.53

  1. Results are expressed using mean values. Snow, summer and winter temperatures, and sea level rise vulnerability maps, boxplots and calculated values are available in Supplementary Fig. 3 and Supplementary Data 3