Pacific Island Groundwater Vulnerability to Future Climates Dataset

Data package containing an ESRI shapefile and associated comma-separated value table (.csv) of the Pacific islands, including the countries of Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The ESRI shapefile contains polygons of the islands and has been adapted from the World Vector Shoreline dataset, with original scale suitability of 1:250,000 (reference: Soluri, E.A. and Woodson, V.A. 1990. World Vector Shoreline. International Hydrographic Review LXVII(1)).


See lineage for more information. The .csv file contains tabular data associated with the island polygons. The file has been adapted to suit the purposes of the companion report by Dixon-Jain et al. (2014). The island polygon shapefile and .csv file can be joined using the common UniqueID field.


The attribute fields within the .csv file include island hydrogeological and physical characteristics. Relative ratings for component of the potential vulnerability framework are included for the two projection periods (2035-2064 and 2070-2099), for each climate hazard (low rainfall periods and mean sea-level rise). See the field list within lineage in the Data Dictionary for more information on the source of each attribute.


The full bibliographic reference for the companion report (catalogue number 79066) is: Dixon-Jain, P., Norman, R., Stewart, G., Fontaine, K., Walker, K., Sundaram, B., Flannery, E., Riddell, A., Wallace, L. 2014. Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-Pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment. Record 2014/43. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2014.043

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2014-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/81575

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/25/5418CE78535CF

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

 Canberra
Author

Stewart, G.A.

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Author

Walker, K.

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Author

Fontaine, K.

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Author

Dixon-Jain, P.

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Author

Norman, R.

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Point of contact
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Custodian

EGD
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Equivalent scale

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250000
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Not planned
Keywords

  • Data Package

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Environmental Science and Management

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

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CC-BY

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4.0

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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License
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License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

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Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Dataset and Documentation

Dataset and Documentation

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Project overview

Project overview

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Associated publication: Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-Pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment

Associated publication: Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-Pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment

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Statement

Island polygon coverage for the Pacific region was originally derived from the World Vector Shoreline dataset at a spatial resolution of 1:250,000 in the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) coordinate system (reference: Soluri, E.A. & Woodson, V.A. 1990. World Vector Shoreline. International Hydrographic Review LXVII(1)). This dataset was quality checked and verified against ESRI National Geographic base maps (ESRI. 2012. National Geographic World Map - Basemap. USA: ESRI), Google Earth aerial photography as well as Google international borders and coastlines (Google Inc. 2012. Google Earth (Version 6.2.2.6613)). This dataset was further checked and some areas re-digitised against a number of larger and smaller-scale (ranging from 1:10,000 to 1:1.5 million) hydrographic charts, specifically for the countries of Niue, Tonga, Tokelau, Western Samoa and parts of Cook Islands (reference: New Zealand Hydrographic Authority. 2012. Various charts. New Zealand: Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)). The resulting polygon dataset was projected into the World Mercator projection in order to generate island areas and for consistency with other datasets. The number of islands represented in the database is 5,644.


The main island of Papua New Guinea (east New Guinea) has been sub-divided into three areas based on its hydrogeology. For the analysis of relative potential vulnerability, and the components of the vulnerability framework, east New Guinea was treated as three separate regions. A single polygon of the entire island has been included in the database for assigning an island type, maximum elevation and maximum width. The total number of records represented in the database is 5,647.

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Description

This dataset has attributes which are derived from a variety of sources. The sources, and the process applied to develop the final dataset, are described in full in the associated data dictionary.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/fb867431-2510-19c0-e044-00144fdd4fa6

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GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
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UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Resource scope
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/81575

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/fb867431-2510-19c0-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-22T08:35:18
Date info (Creation)
2014-06-11T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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