Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion in New South Wales for 2013

New South Wales monthly hillslope bare soil erosion rates for 2013, measured in tonnes per hectare per month. The dataset was published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats. It was last updated on the platform in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling annual soil loss patterns based on monthly erosion rates.
• Analyzing seasonal variations in hillslope erosion across New South Wales.
• Assessing environmental risk and land degradation based on geospatial soil erosion data.
• Calibrating hydrological or erosion models with region-specific monthly data.

Strengths

• Data covers a full calendar year (2013) with monthly temporal resolution.
• Geospatial data is provided in the GEOTIFF format, suitable for GIS analysis.
• Published by a government environmental department (NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water).
• Available under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are 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

2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 08:16:21.199020; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia