Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion Rates Across New South Wales for 2022

Monthly bare soil erosion rates across New South Wales for the year 2022, measured in tons per hectare per month. The data is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available in GEOTIFF and PDF formats. It offers a detailed temporal view of hillslope erosion dynamics for a single year.

Use Cases

• Model annual soil loss budgets based on monthly erosion rate data.
• Identify seasonal erosion hotspots across New South Wales based on the monthly geospatial layers.
• Correlate erosion rates with other environmental or land-use datasets for the 2022 period.
• Validate and calibrate hydrological or erosion models using the provided hillslope-scale data.

Strengths

• Provides data for every month of 2022, enabling seasonal 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.
• Data scale (row count) is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last metadata update was 2026-05-17.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Data covers 2022; metadata last updated 2026-05-17.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia