Gridded Land Surface Temperature and Selected Environmental and Socioeconomic Features of Metropolitan Manila, Bangkok Metropolitan Area, and Greater Jakarta

The dataset provides monthly gridded LST from MODIS’ MOD21 product in February 2000 to December 2023 for Metropolitan Manila, Bangkok Metropolitan Area, and Greater Jakarta. We also collected are selected environmental and socioeconomic variables for each grid. This includes building and built-up areas, areas of greeneries, industrial zones, and water bodies, night-time light (to approximate areas of economic activities), gridded population, distance from water bodies, and indicators on presence of roads and airports. We also derived an indicator that determines clusters of neighboring grids with high value of temperature. Lastly, we identified which administrative units, i.e. barangays for Metropolitan Manila, tambong for Bangkok Metropolitan Area, and kampong for Greater Jakarta, have at least of 50% of their land area within the mapped extreme heat clusters.