Drought impact area during 2023 in comparison to the 2000-2020 average for the EEA-38 regions

The chart shows the 2023 drought impacted area and the 2000-2020 average annual area impacted by drought in the EEA-38 region, by country (in percentage of the country area).

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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 zero, i.e. below -1 and -0.5 standard deviation, respectively. The calculated area is computed in km² and subsequenty expressed in proportion of the country's area as a % value. The vegetation productivity is estimated using the Medium Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity datasets of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.

Drought impact area during 2023 in comparison to the 2000-2020 average for the EEA-38 regions

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