Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion Rates Across New South Wales for 2003

2003 monthly bare soil erosion rates measured in tons per hectare per month across the state of New South Wales, Australia. The dataset was published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats.

Use Cases

• Modeling annual soil loss budgets based on monthly erosion rates.
• Mapping spatial patterns of hillslope erosion risk across New South Wales.
• Calibrating or validating regional hydrological or erosion models.
• Analyzing seasonal trends in bare soil erosion for 2003.

Strengths

• Provides monthly temporal resolution for the year 2003.
• Covers the entire geographic region of New South Wales.
• Data is provided in a standard geospatial format (GEOTIFF) for analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; last metadata update was 2026-05-17.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2003

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 22:42:33.877495

Geography

New South Wales, Australia