Climate change projections and drought assessments for the Mun River basin, northeast Thailand 2021-2050
bibliographic citation: Khadka, D., Abatan, A.A., Babel, M.S., Collins, M., Djordjevic, S. (2023). Climate change projections and drought assessments for the Mun River basin, northeast Thailand 2021-2050. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b11c040d-c3c0-43c5-a7c0-442b067dc526
description: This dataset provides the projections of meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural droughts for the near-future period (2021-2050) for the Mun River basin, in Northeast Thailand. Near future drought characteristics (duration, intensity, and severity) are projected for climate change (CC) scenario using 8 CMIP6 climate models (CNRM-CM6-1, CNRM-CM6-1-HR, EC-Earth3P, EC-Earth3P-HR, HadGEM3-GC31-HH, HadGEM3-GC31-HM, HadGEM3-GC31-MM, HadGEM3-GC31-LL) for SSP5-8.5 scenario.
provenance: ProvenanceStatement
  label: The raw climate data were accessed from the 'Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)' portal in December 2020. Climate data were re-gridded to 0.25 degrees using bilinear interpolation. Climate data has been bias-corrected using the Quantile mapping method with reference to 1981-2010 period observations. Bias correction of rainfall data is carried out using empirical distribution, which avoids assumptions about distribution fitting and corrects rainfall intensity and frequency. This method is more effective in reducing biases than using a theoretical distribution. For future rainfall values larger than those during the reference period, a correction factor for the highest quantile is used. Bias correction of temperature is carried out by fitting in a normal distribution.
spatial: Location
  bbox: POLYGON((101.3 14, 101.3 16, 105.3 16, 105.3 14, 101.3 14))
temporal: PeriodOfTime
  start date: 2021-01-01
  end date: 2050-12-31
contact point: Abatan, A.A.
publisher: NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
subject: Thailand
subject: climate model
subject: bias correction
subject: Southeast Asia
subject: drought
subject: climate change
type: Dataset
available: 2023-03-17
landing page: https://doi.org/10.5285/b11c040d-c3c0-43c5-a7c0-442b067dc526
license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
access rights: UNRS
distribution:
  access URL: https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/b11c040d-c3c0-43c5-a7c0-442b067dc526
  license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
  access rights: UNRS
  format: Comma-separated values (CSV)
creator: Khadka, D.
creator: Abatan, A.A.
creator: Babel, M.S.
creator: Collins, M.
creator: Djordjevic, S.
language: en

Abatan, A.A.
type: Person
family name: Abatan
given name: A.A.
member: University of Exeter

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
type: Organization

Khadka, D.
type: Person
family name: Khadka
given name: D.
member: Asian Institute of Technology

Babel, M.S.
type: Person
family name: Babel
given name: M.S.
member: Asian Institute of Technology

Collins, M.
type: Person
family name: Collins
given name: M.
member: University of Exeter

Djordjevic, S.
type: Person
family name: Djordjevic
given name: S.
member: University of Exeter

drought
type: Concept

climate change
type: Concept