Area of drought impact on vegetation productivity in the EU-27

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Unit
The affected area is expressed in km².

Methodology
The size of the impacted area is calculated annually from the sum of those 500mx500m grid cells, where both the soil moisture and the vegetation productivity anomaly was below -1 and -0.5 standard deviation, respectively. The vegetation productivity is estimated using the Medium Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity datasets of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.

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- Dataset "EDO Soil Moisture Index (SMI) (version 2.1.3)", how to cite: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2021): EDO Soil Moisture Index (SMI) (version 2.1.3). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset]
PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/a47c68f3-818f-4c41-92cc-1b94bdefcb6f
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