Monthly Rainfall Erosivity over New South Wales for 2002

2002 monthly rainfall erosivity data for New South Wales, Australia. The dataset is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and was last updated on 2026-05-18. It likely contains raster maps of erosivity values for each month.

Use Cases

• Model soil erosion risk based on monthly rainfall erosivity values.
• Analyze seasonal patterns of erosive rainfall events across New South Wales.
• Validate hydrological models using spatially distributed erosivity data.
• Assess land management impacts by comparing erosivity across months.

Strengths

• Data is provided by a government environmental department.
• The dataset has a specific temporal coverage of the year 2002.
• It is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license for open use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2002

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 05:28:47.395679; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia