Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion in New South Wales for 2019

Individual monthly hillslope bare soil erosion rates for New South Wales during 2019, measured in tonnes per hectare per month. The data is provided 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 budgets based on monthly erosion rates.
• Identifying seasonal patterns in hillslope erosion based on the monthly time series.
• Assessing land degradation risk for specific regions within New South Wales based on the geospatial data.
• Calibrating or validating hydrological or erosion models using the provided soil loss measurements.

Strengths

• Data has a specific temporal scope covering the full year of 2019.
• Provides geospatial coverage for the entire state of New South Wales.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

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 geographic or temporal bias inherent to the source platform.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 19:58:03.220555; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia