Modelled Annual Rainfall Erosivity for New South Wales from 2001

Modelled Annual Rainfall Erosivity (R-factor) data supports soil erosion risk assessment in New South Wales. The dataset, provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, contains mean annual values calculated across a year range commencing in 2001. Its landing page was last updated on 2026-05-17.

Use Cases

• Model soil erosion risk based on the Rainfall Erosivity (R-factor) metric.
• Analyze long-term climate impacts on land degradation based on annual data from 2001 onward.
• Inform agricultural and conservation planning based on modelled erosivity across New South Wales.
• Validate hydrological models using government-provided mean annual R-factor values.

Strengths

• Data is provided by a government environmental department (NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water).
• The temporal coverage is explicitly defined as commencing in 2001.
• The data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary file format is PDF, which may complicate automated data extraction.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Modelled data

Time Range

Years commencing 2001

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 20:06:02.785086; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia