Data determines the past history and present state of soil moisture and all water fluxes contributing to changes in soil moisture (rainfall, transpiration, soil evaporation, surface runoff and deep drainage), across the entire Australian continent at a spatial resolution of 5 km.

 

Citation and attribution: When referring to this dataset in publications, please cite both:

  1. Raupach MR, PR Briggs, V Haverd, EA King, M Paget, CM Trudinger (2009), Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP): CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Component: Final Report for Phase 3. CAWCR Technical Report No. 013. 67 pp.
  2. Raupach MR, PR Briggs, V Haverd, EA King, M Paget, CM Trudinger (2012), Australian Water Availability Project. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Canberra, Australia. <http://www.csiro.au/awap>. Date of access.

 

Licence: CC-BY Share Alike Attribution 3.0

 

Full description: See http://www.csiro.au/awap and for full quality and source information see http://www.csiro.au/awap/doc/AWAP_readme_v9.txt


Includes: 34 variables across 110 years at 1 resolution

  • Annual Daily latent heat flux
  • Annual Daily latent heat flux (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual Daily sensible heat flux 
  • Annual Daily sensible heat flux (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual Daily maximum temperature
  • Annual Daily maximum temperature (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual deep drainage
  • Annual deep drainage (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual incident solar radiation
  • Annual incident solar radiation (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual local discharge (runoff+drainage)
  • Annual local discharge (runoff+drainage) (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual open water evaporation
  • Annual open water evaporation (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual potential evaporation
  • Annual precipitation
  • Annual relative precipitation (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual relative soil moisture (lower layer)
  • Annual relative soil moisture (lower layer) (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual relative soil moisture (lower layer) at end of aggregation period
  • Annual relative soil moisture (lower layer) at end of aggregation period (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual relative soil moisture (upper layer)
  • Annual relative soil moisture (upper layer) (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual relative soil moisture (upper layer) at end of aggregation period
  • Annual relative soil moisture (upper layer) at end of aggregation period (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual soil evaporation
  • Annual soil evaporation (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual surface runoff
  • Annual surface runoff (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Annual total evaporation (soil+vegetation)
  • Annual total transpiration 
  • Annual total trasnpirtation (Percentile Rank Data)
  • Daily minimum temperature
  • Daily minimum temperature (Percentile Rank Data)

  • 1900
  • 1901
  • 1902
  • 1903
  • 1904
  • 1905
  • 1906
  • 1907
  • 1908
  • 1909
  • 1910
  • 1911
  • 1912
  • 1913
  • 1914
  • 1915
  • 1916
  • 1917
  • 1918
  • 1919
  • 1920
  • 1921
  • 1922
  • 1923
  • 1924
  • 1925
  • 1926
  • 1927
  • 1928
  • 1929
  • 1930
  • ….
  • 2010
  • 9 arcmin