Coastal Inundation Modelling for Busselton Under Current and Future Climate

Geoscience Australia and Western Australian government agencies collaborated to develop a regional-scale inundation model for Busselton. The model simulates combined storm tide and riverine flood scenarios, incorporating future sea-level rise influences. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-22.

Use Cases

• Assess coastal flood risk for urban planning based on combined storm tide and riverine scenarios.
• Model the impact of future sea-level rise on inundation extents for climate adaptation studies.
• Validate hydrodynamic models using the regional-scale simulation outputs described.
• Inform infrastructure resilience planning for the Busselton region based on the simulated flood scenarios.

Strengths

• Developed through collaboration between Geoscience Australia and Western Australian government planning departments.
• Models combined storm tide and riverine flood scenarios, a key feature for accurate coastal hazard assessment.
• Includes future climate conditions, specifically sea-level rise influences, as noted in the description.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data files are in HTML, DOCX, and PDF formats, which may require parsing to extract structured data.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Regional-scale inundation modelling developed by Geoscience Australia, the Western Australian Department of Planning, and the Western Australian Planning Commission.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-22 03:00:42.931159; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Busselton region, Western Australia