Victorian Coastal Inundation: Sea Level Rise and Storm Tide Projections 2009-2100

Victorian Coastal Inundation Dataset consists of eight spatial layers modelling land subject to coastal inundation due to projected sea level rise and storm tide from 2009 to 2100. The dataset supports the Victorian Government's Future Coasts Project and is intended for regional-scale assessments. It includes specific projections for sea level rise and 1-in-100 year storm tide events with added wind forcing for the years 2040, 2070, and 2100.

Use Cases

• Regional-scale coastal hazard risk assessment based on projected sea level rise layers.
• Planning for infrastructure resilience using modelled 1-in-100 year storm tide inundation extents.
• Climate adaptation strategy development for the state of Victoria, Australia.
• Visualizing potential future coastal inundation under different climate scenarios for communication purposes.

Strengths

• Provides specific, modelled projections for four time horizons (2009, 2040, 2070, 2100) with explicit sea level rise heights.
• Includes combined hazard scenarios of storm tide with wind forcing and sea level rise, detailing percentage increases in storm surge.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Explicitly not suitable for property-level risk assessments, recommended for use at scales of 1:75,000 or less.
• Metadata for row count, size, and specific column schema is unavailable across all sources.
• An associated interactive map (Hydra site) was decommissioned in October 2022, limiting access to a visualization tool.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Victorian Government)

Collection Method

Modelled spatial data computed to support the Future Coasts Project.

Time Range

2009 to 2100

Freshness

2026-04-09 03:25:53.360646

Geography

Victoria, Australia