The Total Water Storage (TWS) Anomaly indicator that is implemented in the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory (GDO) is used for determining the occurrence of long-term hydrological drought conditions, which arise when the TWS reaches values lower than usual...

The 3-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-3) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 3-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for immediate impacts of droughts, such as reduced soil moisture, snowpack,...

The 1-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-1) is an indicator used to monitor meteorological drought based on precipitation anomalies over 1-month accumulation periods. SPI-1 serves as a proxy indicator for immediate impacts of droughts such as reduced ...

The Crop Masks used in the European Drought Observatory (EDO) and Global Drought Observatory (GDO) consist of 36 binary spatial layers (one for each 10-day period of the year) used to depict the location and extent of crop in its growing season. The input data...

The 6-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-6) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 6-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for medium-term impacts, for example reduced stream flow and reservoir stor...

The 12-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-12) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 12-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for medium-term impacts, for example reduced stream flow and reservoir s...

The 9-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-9) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 9-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for medium-term impacts, for example reduced stream flow and reservoir stor...

The 24-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-24) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 24-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for long-term impacts, for example, reduced reservoir and groundwater re...

The 48-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-48) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 48-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for long-term impacts, for example, reduced reservoir and groundwater re...

This indicator outlines persistent anomaly conditions of low precipitation, as discrete events in space and time, at the global scale and at near real-time, every ten days. By providing information on the duration and spatial extent of droughts, it allows for ...

Activation date: 2023-12-20 Event type: Flood Activation reason: In September 2023, Thessaly Region, Greece, was hit by extended floods due to heavy rainfall. After three months, an area north, north-west of Karla lake is still flooded. The On-demand...

The FAPAR Anomaly indicator that is implemented in the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory (GDO) is used to detect and monitor the impacts on vegetation growth and productivity of environmental stress factors, especially plant water stress due to drought. Th...

The FAPAR indicator used in the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory (GDO) is the satellite-measured biophysical variable Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR, sometimes written as fAPAR or FPAR), composited for 10-day intervals, fr...

The FAPAR Anomaly indicator that is implemented in the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory (GDO) is used to detect and monitor the impacts on vegetation growth and productivity of environmental stress factors, especially plant water stress due to drought. Th...

Activation date: 2022-11-30 Event type: Flood Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated for the analysis of the flood occurred in September 2022 in Bulgaria, in the villages of Bogdan and Karavelovo, in Karlovo Municip...

Activation date: 2022-10-11 Event type: Other Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated for a retrospective assessment of an extreme flooding across Western Europe in summer 2021, which had devastating impacts on Luxem...

Activation date: 2021-03-10 Event type: Industrial accident Activation reason: The explosion of a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse in the port of Beirut on the 4th of August 2020, had a devastating outcome not only for the port ...

Activation date: 2022-07-05 Event type: Other Activation reason: CEMS Risk and Recovery Mapping service has been activated by DG Joint Research Centre with the aim to source high-quality reference dataset to establish the new Exposure Mapping co...

Activation date: 2022-01-03 Event type: Humanitarian Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard (RRM STD) has been activated by the European Commission DG ECHO, on behalf of the World Food Programme (WFP) Mozambique, with the final object...