GloREDa: Global Rainfall Erosivity Database with 1km Resolution Rasters

3,939 stations provide annual and monthly rainfall erosivity data, a key factor for soil erosion modeling. The European Commission's Panos Panagos led the creation of this database, which includes global monthly erosivity rasters at a 1km x 1km resolution. A 2023 publication in Data in Brief details the dataset's methodology and structure.

Use Cases

• Model global soil erosion risk based on rainfall erosivity (R-factor) data.
• Analyze seasonal patterns of erosivity using the monthly raster layers.
• Validate regional erosion models by comparing with station-level data from the shapefile.
• Assess climate change impacts on erosion potential using the global geospatial data.

Strengths

• Includes data from 3,939 measurement stations worldwide.
• Provides high-resolution (1km x 1km) global monthly raster data in GeoTIFF format.
• Associated with a peer-reviewed 2023 publication in Data in Brief.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

European Commission

Collection Method

Data compilation from global stations and spatial interpolation to create rasters.

Geography

Global