The projection data of saline water intrusion in the Mekong Delta under climatic and anthropogenic drivers

The dataset provided here belongs to Eslami et al. (2021) article. We suggest to refer to that article before using the data.

The excel sheet contains the description of simulations as it relates to their drivers and forcings. Two types of forcing are considered in this study. The climatic and anthropogenic drivers. The Climatic or climate change driven forces are upstream discharge anomalies and downstream sea level rise. The anthropogenic forces are spatially-varying extraction-induced land subsidence and average riverbed level erosions driven by sediment starvation due to upstream dams and downstream sand mining. This excel file defines the simulation ID and the description (driving forces) of every simulation (including all the sensitivity analysis simulations). 

The actual data is in form of three different Python 2.7 dictionaries, saved in NumPy binary format (*.npy).  The filenames are as SWI_Projections_pxx.npy (pxx can be p50, p90 or p100). P50/P90 refer to Spatial values of 50th/90th percentile of salinity in the dry season of the simulation year, and P100 (100th percentile) is basically the maximum salinity in during the dry season of the simulation year.

The files can simply be read in a Python 2.7 platform with NumPy module installed. The line to read the data is: 
data = np.load(filename, allow_pickle=True).item()

Each dictionary contains several keys, each representing the results of a simulation. 
Under every simulation, the results contain:

• x_grid    : x-coordinates of a 2km x 2km grid projected and interpolated over the model [UTM 48N, m]
• y_grid    : y-coordinates of a 2km x 2km grid projected and interpolated over the model [UTM 48N, m]
• s_grid    : Salinity over a 2km x 2km grid projected and interpolated over the model [PSU]
• xy_utm    : Easting  & Northing [UTM 48N, m], at exact model grid points
• latlon    : Latitude & Longitude at exact model grid points
• salinity  : modelled salinity [PSU] at exact model grid points
• info      : explaining the above information

For further information and detailed background, you may refer to the following paper: 

Eslami, S.; Hoekstra, P.; Minderhoud, P. S. J.; Trung, N. N.; Hoch, J. M.; Sutanudjaja, E. H.; Dung, D. D.; Tho, T. Q.; Voepel, H. E.; Woillez, M.-N.; and van der Vegt, M.: Projections of salt intrusion in a mega-delta under climatic and anthropogenic stressors, Nat. Commun. Earth Environ.