Western Region Stochastic Climate Data for Water Modelling

10,000-year daily datasets of rainfall and potential evapotranspiration generated using observed and palaeo-climatic data. Researchers at the University of Adelaide and University of Newcastle created this dataset, which has been used in Regional Water Strategies. The data is made available as open data to support transparency, research, planning, and informed decision-making.

Use Cases

• Simulating long-term water availability based on stochastic rainfall data
• Calibrating hydrological models using Morton's potential evapotranspiration variables
• Assessing climate variability impacts on water resources based on 10,000-year synthetic time series
• Planning regional water strategies using palaeo-climate-informed stochastic datasets

Strengths

• Each ZIP file contains a 10,000-year daily time series in CSV format
• Includes metadata PDFs describing geographic location, data type, and period of observed data
• Provides quality assurance PDFs for each climate variable file

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 Western region

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

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

Time Range

10,000-year synthetic daily time series

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 16:10:39.550717; freshness should be verified

Geography

Western region