Monthly Rainfall Erosivity over New South Wales for 2008

2008 Monthly Rainfall Erosivity provides individual monthly rainfall erosivity data over New South Wales for the year 2008. The dataset is published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water on data_gov_au. It is available in PDF and GEOTIFF file formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Model soil erosion risk based on monthly rainfall erosivity values.
• Analyze seasonal patterns in rainfall erosivity over New South Wales.
• Integrate with land-use data to assess environmental impact.
• Validate hydrological models using spatially distributed erosivity data.

Strengths

• Data is geospatial, likely containing raster maps for spatial analysis.
• Published by a government environmental department, suggesting authoritative sourcing.
• Available in GEOTIFF format, suitable for GIS applications.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2008

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 01:37:11.243442; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales