The Greater Sydney Palaeo Stochastic Climate Data, and Stochastic Climate Data datasets are now available.

We have recently uploaded to SEED, two datasets which we use in our own modelling.

The Palaeo Stochastic Climate Data-Greater Sydney, and the Stochastic Climate Data-Greater Sydney datasets include 10,000 replicates of 130-year daily records of rainfall and potential evapotranspiration generated using observed datasets with, and without, combined paleo-climate data. 

We use this type of data in our modelling to explore water-related outcomes of river basins under long-term climate, and to inform the development of water policies, planning, and strategies for water management.  The data was used in modelling for the Greater Sydney Water Strategy.

The Palaeo Stochastic Climate Data-Greater Sydney, and the Stochastic Climate Data-Greater Sydney datasets, each contain 268 zip files. Each zip file includes climate data (rainfall or evaporation) in a CSV format from a climate station within the Greater Sydney region.

Don’t forget to let us know when you use these datasets!

(The work to create the datasets was undertaken by researchers at the University of Newcastle)