Monthly Rainfall Erosivity over New South Wales for 2020

2020 Monthly Rainfall Erosivity provides individual monthly rainfall erosivity data over New South Wales for the year 2020. The dataset is published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water on data.gov.au. It was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Model soil erosion risk based on monthly rainfall erosivity data.
• Analyze seasonal patterns of erosive rainfall events in New South Wales.
• Integrate with land cover data to assess regional erosion vulnerability.
• Validate and calibrate hydrological models using geospatial rainfall erosivity inputs.

Strengths

• Data is provided in geospatial formats (GEOTIFF) suitable for GIS analysis.
• The dataset has a specific temporal focus on the year 2020.
• It is published under the open CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

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

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 06:54:43.220919

Geography

New South Wales, Australia