Soil moisture anomaly maps are computed on a 30-day moving window at a spatial resolution of 0.1 decimal degrees and updated every 10 days. Moving windows have an ordinal reference: - 1st window of month M goes from day 11 of month M-1 to day 10 of month M (e....

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 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 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,...

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...

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...

Activation date: 2022-04-05 Event type: Other Activation reason: The present activation aims at supporting the Greece National Secretariat for Civil Protection to develop civil protection plans for archaeological sites facing climate change and its e...

Activation date: 2021-06-18 Event type: Humanitarian Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated by EEAS (European External Action Service) on behalf of the World Bank Group in order to support EU Delegation, World Bank,...

Activation date: 2021-09-14 Event type: Humanitarian Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated by EEAS (European External Action Service) on behalf of the World Bank Group in order to support EU Delegation, World Bank,...

Activation date: 2021-03-12 Event type: Mass movement Activation reason: A storm brought strong winds and heavy rain to parts of the Portuguese island of Madeira on 25 December 2020 . Flooding and landslides were reported in the municipality of S&ati...

Activation date: 2021-08-19 Event type: Storm Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Mapping (Standard) has been activated to assess the effects of the Eta and Iota hurricanes that hit Central America starting from the beginning of Novemb...

Activation date: 2017-03-08 Event type: Other Activation reason: Post-disaster situation analyses of the flood that occurred in mid-March 2017 in Lima, Peru. Heavy rains affected nearly all of Peru leading to catastrophic flooding and landslides. In ...

Activation date: 2016-03-21 Event type: Other Activation reason: Preparation for 2016 World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland