Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion Rates for New South Wales in 2015

2015 monthly bare soil erosion rates measured in tonnes per hectare per month across New South Wales, Australia. The data is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-17.

Use Cases

• Modeling annual soil loss budgets based on monthly erosion rates.
• Analyzing seasonal patterns of hillslope erosion across New South Wales.
• Validating or calibrating regional soil erosion simulation models.
• Assessing land degradation risk for agricultural or conservation planning.

Strengths

• Provides monthly temporal resolution for the year 2015.
• Covers the entire state of New South Wales, offering regional coverage.
• Data is provided in GEOTIFF format, suitable for GIS analysis.

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.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 20:08:01.848134; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia