Rockhampton 2050: Climate Hazard Models for Current and Future Scenarios

Geospatial datasets modeling natural hazards for the Rockhampton Regional Council area under current and a future climate scenario. The data was produced by Geoscience Australia for a project funded by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Grants Program. Outputs include hazard maps and digital spatial data covering tropical cyclone wind, bushfire, storm tide, coastal erosion, and sea-level rise.

Use Cases

• Assess future flood and storm tide risk for land-use planning based on modeled coastal hazards.
• Model bushfire vulnerability under climate change scenarios based on hazard projections.
• Evaluate coastal erosion and sea-level rise impacts for infrastructure planning based on spatial hazard data.
• Incorporate tropical cyclone wind projections into emergency management and risk mitigation plans.

Strengths

• Data produced by Geoscience Australia, a national geoscience agency.
• Covers multiple natural hazards (tropical cyclone wind, bushfire, storm tide, coastal erosion, sea-level rise) for a specific region.
• Includes projections for a future climate scenario alongside current conditions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing on a single Australian council area.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Modeling of natural hazards using spatial techniques, undertaken for the Rockhampton Regional Council.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 14:29:55.540042; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rockhampton Regional Council area, Australia