Monthly Hillslope Cover Erosion Rates for New South Wales, 2001-2010

2001 to 2010 monthly estimates of hillslope cover erosion measured in tonnes per hectare per month over New South Wales. The data was produced by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The dataset was last updated on the platform in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Model long-term soil loss trends based on monthly erosion rates.
• Analyze seasonal patterns in hillslope erosion based on the monthly time series.
• Assess regional land degradation risks in New South Wales based on geospatial coverage.
• Calibrate hydrological or erosion models based on the provided erosion rate measurements.

Strengths

• Provides a decadal time series from 2001 to 2010 for longitudinal analysis.
• Covers the entire state of New South Wales, offering broad geospatial coverage.
• Data is published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data is provided only in PDF format, which may complicate automated analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2001-2010

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 23:25:37.451864; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia