Shoreline Response to Clustered Storm Events in Southeast Australia

A framework for modelling beach erosion from clustered storms, focusing on two case study areas in southeast Australia: the Adelaide metropolitan coast and Old Bar beach. The dataset integrates coastal geomorphology and engineering approaches, using sub-surface information like boreholes and ground-penetrating radar to estimate sediment volumes. This work is a contribution to the Bushfire and Natural Hazard Cooperative Research Centre project on storm surge resilience.

Use Cases

• Modeling shoreline erosion risk based on sediment volume estimates from sub-surface data.
• Assessing coastal vulnerability to clustered storm events based on event time series data.
• Informing coastal management strategies for specific sediment compartments.
• Hindcasting historical erosion events, such as the 1974 storms in southeast Australia.

Strengths

• Focuses on two specific, high-priority case study areas in Australia where erosion is a management concern.
• Integrates multiple data sources, including sub-surface information from boreholes and ground-penetrating radar.
• Framework is designed to directly inform management agencies at a relevant spatial scale.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data freshness should be verified as the last update is listed as 2026-04-30.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Framework integrates coastal geomorphology and engineering approaches, using sub-surface data and event time series.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 15:00:19.311223

Geography

Southeast Australia, specifically Adelaide metropolitan coast (South Australia) and Old Bar beach (central New South Wales).