Mean annual water balance estimates for Lower South East of South Australia

Mean annual gridded water balance estimates (2001-2010) derived from mean annual AET and mean annual rainfall data for the Lower South East of South Australia. The data is made available as ArcInfo ASCII Grid format.\nLineage: A water balance approach (R = P - ET) was used to estimate net recharge/discharge across the study area at a fine spatial and temporal scale. Inputs are the SILO rainfall (P) grids and the CMRSET (ET) grids. The CMRSET ET grids are produced from 8-day composite MODIS images at a resolution of 250 m from 2000 onwards. The SILO grids are daily rainfall, aggregated to an 8-day average to correspond with ET grids.