Monthly Hillslope Cover Erosion Rates for New South Wales in 2008

Individual monthly hillslope cover erosion data measured in tonnes per hectare per month for the state of New South Wales, Australia, for the year 2008. The dataset is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and was last updated in May 2026. Data is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil loss and sediment yield based on monthly erosion rates.
• Analyzing seasonal patterns in hillslope erosion based on the monthly temporal resolution.
• Assessing land cover impact on erosion for the New South Wales region.
• Calibrating or validating hydrological models using the provided geospatial erosion data.

Strengths

• Data is provided at a monthly temporal resolution for the full year of 2008.
• Spatial coverage is explicitly defined as the entire state of New South Wales.
• Data is available in a standard geospatial format (GEOTIFF) for GIS analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the single-year (2008) coverage.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2008

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 20:19:20.459915; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia