Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion Rates for New South Wales in 2020

2020 Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion provides monthly soil erosion rate estimates in tonnes per hectare per month across New South Wales for the year 2020. The dataset is published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. It is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats.

Use Cases

• Model annual soil loss budgets based on monthly erosion rate data.
• Analyze seasonal erosion patterns across New South Wales based on monthly time-series.
• Assess land degradation risk for specific regions based on hillslope erosion estimates.
• Validate hydrological or land-use models using spatially distributed erosion data.

Strengths

• Provides data for each month of 2020, enabling temporal analysis.
• Covers the entire state of New South Wales, offering broad spatial coverage.
• Published 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.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-05-18).

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 08:02:33.434114

Geography

New South Wales, Australia