
, the interplay between soil and rainfall has an important role regarding the ecological, hydrological, and biogeochemical cycles, since rainfall-induced soil erosion significantly affects its functions, and alters the soil structure and organic matter content. Water erosion is one of the most prominent causes of land degradation. The present analysis identifies seasons and places of greatest erosion risk, which is the starting point for implementing suitable mitigation measures at local to regional scales. These increases may cause a transition to a higher erosive class in the future, thus raising concerns about this type of hydro-meteorological hazard in this part of the Pannonian Basin.

and an erosion model consisting of daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual rainfall for the period of 1961–2014 were used. To assess RE and ED, precipitation data for 14 meteorological stations, 225 grid points.

The main objective of this study is to assess the spatial–temporal trends and variability of the RE and ED in the central and southern Pannonian Basin by using station observations and gridded datasets.


Estimation of rainfall erosivity ( RE) and erosivity density ( ED) is essential for understanding the complex relationships between hydrological and soil erosion processes.
