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Area of drought impact on vegetation productivity in the EU-27, 2000-2023
Chart (interactive)
The chart shows the annual area affected by drought during the period 2000-2023 for the EU-27 region, by ecosystem type.
This visualization was originally used in:
EEA, 2024, ‘Drought impact on ecosystems in Europe’ (https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/drought-impact-on-ecosystems-in-europe) accessed 14 February 2024.
Assessment
Data sources
Metadata
More info
- Medium Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity: Large integral (raster 500m), Oct. 2022, European Environment Agency (EEA)
- EDO Soil Moisture Index (SMI) (version 2.1.3), European Drought Observatory, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- Cyprus
- Portugal
- Spain
- Malta
- Denmark
- Sweden
- Netherlands
- Austria
- Belgium
- Germany
- Luxembourg
- Ireland
- France
- Slovakia
- Czechia
- Italy
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Greece
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Finland
- Hungary
- Bulgaria
- Poland
- Romania
2000-2023
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.