Annual Frequency of Environmental Water in Murray-Darling Basin Watercourses

2014-2019 data maps the annual frequency of Commonwealth environmental water in watercourses across Australia's Murray-Darling Basin for each water accounting year (July-June). The dataset was compiled by the Flow-MER Basin-scale Program using river lines from the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric) v3.2.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of environmental water frequency across Geofabric watercourse lines to identify priority conservation areas.
• Model the relationship between watercourse location and annual water frequency metrics for policy impact assessment.
• Integrate Geofabric SH_Network river line geometry with annual frequency attributes for spatiotemporal mapping of water usage.

Strengths

• Covers a 6-year temporal range from 2014 to 2019.
• Based on authoritative Geofabric v3.2 SH_Network hydrological data.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, ending in 2019.
• Specific row counts and sample sizes are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, Flow-MER Program.

Collection Method

Compiled from the Long Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) project and Geofabric watercourse lines.

Time Range

2014-2019

Freshness

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Geography

Murray-Darling Basin, Australia.