South Coast Stochastic Climate Data for Water Modelling

South Coast region stochastic climate data includes 10,000-year daily datasets of rainfall and potential evapotranspiration. Researchers from the University of Adelaide and University of Newcastle generated the data using observed and palaeo-climatic records. The dataset supports regional water strategies and is available via the WaterInfo portal.

Use Cases

• Simulate long-term water availability based on stochastic rainfall and evapotranspiration data.
• Validate hydrological models using 10,000-year synthetic climate sequences.
• Assess climate variability impacts on water resources using palaeo-climate-informed data.
• Plan infrastructure resilience using Morton's and Penman-Monteith evapotranspiration variables.

Strengths

• Data spans a 10,000-year synthetic daily time series.
• Includes multiple climate variables: rainfall, Morton's evapotranspiration variants, and Penman-Monteith reference evapotranspiration.
• Each ZIP file contains a metadata PDF with station location, data type, 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.
• Access requires creating a free account on the WaterInfo web portal.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Generated using observed datasets combined with palaeo-climatic data.

Time Range

10,000-year synthetic daily series.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 22:02:42.309818; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Coast region.