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

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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 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.

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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]
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