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Two-monthly Maximum Flood Water Depth Spatial Timeseries for the MDB

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Title Two-monthly Maximum Flood Water Depth Spatial Timeseries for the MDB
 
Creator Jin Teng
 
Subject Agricultural hydrology
Environmental assessment and monitoring
Environmental management
Surface water hydrology
 
Description The two-monthly spatial layers of flooding was developed to represent maximum surface water extent and water depth within each two-month period across the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). This work is based on the multi-index method (MIM) surface water mapping and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) using the Floodwater Depth Estimation Tool (FwDET). More than thirty years of two-monthly images of surface water depth across the whole MDB have been produced were produced as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Ecosystem Function (MDB-EF) to reveal historical lateral connectivity throughout the MDB. The MDB-EF project is a collaborative research project between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Commonwealth agencies – the Murray-Darling Basin Authority; the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office. Funding was provided by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.

A newer version of the dataset is being developed in collaboration with the Murray-Darling Water and Environment Research Program (MD-WERP) project. The MD-WERP is a collaboration between Commonwealth partners (Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, and Murray–Darling Basin Authority) and a research consortium. Funding was provided by the Australian Government.

Note: The data type for the files is uint16. The unit of the data is in millimetres. The maximum depth is 65534mm; minimum water depth is 1mm; value 0 represents dry land; and value 65535 represents no-data. The file format is Cloud Optimised Geotiff (COG) and the projection used is EPSG:4326.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Dave Penton
Catherine Ticehurst
Ashmita Sengupta
Andrew Freebairn
Steve Marvanek
Darran King
Carmel Pollino
 
Date 2023-04-03
 
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Identifier csiro:50243
 
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