“…Most of the monthly R-factors (96 %) of the lowest 10 % of all monthly values are part of the period between November and April, whereas 97 % of the highest 10 % are monthly rainfall erosivity in the period from May to October. Seasonality of R mo on a continental scale is observed for Europe (Panagos et al, 2016a) and Africa (Vrieling et al, 2014), on a national scale for Brazil (da Silva, 2004), Cabo Verde (Mannaerts and Gabriels, 2000), Chile (Bonilla and Vidal, 2011), Denmark (Leek and Olsen, 2000), El Salvador (da Silva et al, 2011), Greece (Panagos et al, 2016b), Iran (Sadeghi et al, 2011;Sadeghi and Hazbavi, 2015;Sadeghi and Tavangar, 2015), Italy (Diodato, 2005;Borrelli et al, 2016), New Zealand , South Korea (Lee and Won, 2013), and inter alia for the regions of Australia , Belgium (Verstraeten et al, 2006), Brazil (da Silva et al, 2013), Cabo Verde (Sanchez-Moreno et al, 2014), China (Jing et al, 2009;Zhu et al, 2011;Wang et al, 2013;Zhao et al, 2015;Lai et al, 2016), England and Wales (Davison et al, 2005), Ethiopia (Meshesha et al, 2015), Japan (Laceby et al, 2016), the Himalayas (Ma et al, 2014), Italy (Terranova and Gariano, 2015), South Korea (Arnhold et al, 2014), Malaysia (Shamshad et al, 2008), Poland (Banasik and Górski, 1993;Banasik et al, 2001), Slovenia (Petkovšek and Mikoš, 2004;Mikoš et al, 2006), Spain (Renschler et al, 1999;AnguloMartínez and Beguería, 2009), Turkey (Özşahin, 2014), and the USA (Wilkes and Sawada...…”