Ground and satellite based observation datasets for the Lower Mekong River Basin

Ibrahim Nourein Mohammed; John D Bolten; Raghavan Srinivasan; Chinaporn Meechaiya; Joseph P Spruce; Venkat Lakshmi

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.038

Ground and satellite based observation datasets for the Lower Mekong River Basin

Data Brief. 2018 Nov 14:21:2020-2027. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.038. eCollection 2018 Dec.

Authors

Ibrahim Nourein Mohammed¹, John D Bolten², Raghavan Srinivasan³, Chinaporn Meechaiya⁴, Joseph P Spruce⁵, Venkat Lakshmi⁶

Affiliations

¹ Science Applications International Corporation, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 617.0, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
² NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Mail Code 617.0, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
³ Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
⁴ Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SM Tower, 24th Floor, 979/69 Paholyothin Road, Samsen Nai Phayathai, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
⁵ Science Systems and Applications, Inc., 10210 Greenbelt Rd # 600, Lanham, MD 20706, USA.
⁶ School of Earth Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.

Abstract

In 'Satellite observations and modeling to understand the Lower Mekong River Basin streamflow variability' [1] hydrological fluxes, meteorological variables, land cover land use maps, and soil characteristics and parameters data were compiled and processed for the Lower Mekong River Basin. In this work, daily streamflow time series data at nine gauges located at five different countries in the Mekong region (Thailand, Laos People׳s Democratic Republic (PDR), Myanmar, Cambodia, and Viet Nam) is presented. Satellite-based daily precipitation and air temperature (minimum & maximum) data is processed and provided over the entire basin as part of the dataset provided in this work. Moreover, land cover land use raster data that contains 18 classes that cover agriculture, urban, range and forests land cover land use classes for the basin is offered. In addition, a soil data that contains physical and chemical characteristics needed by physically based hydrological models to simulate the cycling of water and air is also provided.

Keywords: Air temperature; Mekong river; Precipitation; Remote sensing; Soil characteristics; Streamflow.