Border Rivers Stochastic Climate Data for Water Modeling

The Water Modelling-Palaeo Stochastic Climate Data-Border Rivers dataset provides 10,000-year daily sequences of rainfall and potential evapotranspiration. Researchers from the University of Adelaide and University of Newcastle generated this data using observed and palaeo-climatic records for the Border Rivers region. It is published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water to support water strategy planning.

Use Cases

• Long-term water availability modeling based on 10,000-year stochastic rainfall sequences
• Evapotranspiration analysis for agricultural and environmental planning using Morton's and FAO56 methods
• Climate risk assessment for infrastructure planning using extended synthetic climate records
• Validation of hydrological models against palaeo-informed stochastic climate scenarios

Strengths

• Provides 10,000-year daily sequences, offering extremely long-term synthetic climate scenarios
• Includes multiple evapotranspiration calculation methods (Morton's wet area, lake evaporation, point potential, and FAO56 Penman-Monteith)
• Each data file is accompanied by metadata PDFs describing station location and observed data period

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 the Border Rivers region

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Collection Method

Generated by researchers at the University of Adelaide and University of Newcastle using observed datasets combined with palaeo-climatic data

Time Range

10,000-year synthetic daily sequences

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 20:31:19.960922; freshness should be verified

Geography

Border Rivers region