Soil moisture deficit during vegetation growing season

The dataset consists of a collection of annual soil moisture (SM) anomalies during the vegetation growing season (GS) for the years 2000-2019 across EEA 38 area and the United Kingdom. The vegetation growing season is defined by EEA´s phenology data series 'Vegetation growing season length 2000-2016', available in the EEA website and in this catalogue.