Dataset of Drought and Flood Impact on Croplands in Southeast Asia between 1980 to 2019

Droughts and floods have been intensified in recent years and adversely affected agriculture sectors, but only a handful of studies exist to assess their impacts on croplands and production. The purpose of our dataset is to help researchers and scientists to access the temporal climate data geographically and assess the climate change and its impact on croplands in the Monsoon Climate Region (MCR) and Equatorial Climate Region (ECR) of Southeast Asia (SEA) during the crop growing seasons over 40 years period. Here, we used TerraClimate global high-resolution gridded Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) datasets in Google Earth Engine and assessed the droughts and floods and their impacts on rainfed croplands and crop production in SEA. The Global Food Security-support Analysis cropland data in the GEE was used to assess drought damages on rainfed croplands and crop production. We created over 47,192 grid points geographically with a 10 × 10-kilometer resolution, in order to calculate the drought and flood impact on rainfed croplands during the primary crop-growing seasons in the MCR and ECR of SEA. In this data tree datasets were including, two raw data and Geographic Information System (GIS) shapefile data. The first raw dataset folder contains monthly temporal Palmar drought Severity index (PDSI) by country between 1980 to 2019, while the second raw gridded point dataset covers average drought frequencies by 10 km × 10 km geographically in MCR (Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and ECR (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Brunei Darussalam) regions with five years interval between 1980 to 2019 . The third data in GIS Shapefile format (GIS data folder) comprehends drought and their severities levels on rainfed croplands by country in SEA in 2010. The maps data in Maps folder which represents severity classes of drought and wet conditions (floods) impact on rainfed croplands, and the level of need for policy interventions by country in the MCR and ECR countries in SEA .