A snapshot in time of groundwater-surface water interaction fluxes across major rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin. The dataset includes qualitative mapped results for rivers within Victoria, indicating where reaches are gaining, losing, or seasonally varying. It was produced by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project.
Use Cases
- Modeling water budgets for river basins based on mapped flux interactions.
- Identifying gaining or losing river reaches for water management decisions.
- Analyzing seasonal variability in groundwater-surface water connectivity.
- Assessing regional water sustainability across the Murray-Darling Basin sub-regions.
Strengths
- Focuses on 13 specific sub-regions within the Murray-Darling Basin.
- Includes a detailed overview report describing the mapping methodology.
- Available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP, GDB, and WMS.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data represents a snapshot in time; temporal dynamics beyond that point are not captured.
Provenance
- Source
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Collection Method
- Mapping conducted as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-09 03:49:17.668578; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Murray-Darling Basin, specifically Victoria and sub-regions including Loddon-Avoca, Campaspe, Goulburn-Broken, Ovens, Murray, Murrumbidgee, Lachlan, Macquarie-Castlereagh, Namoi, Gwydir, Border Rivers, Condamine-Balonne and Barwon-Darling.