Articles | Volume 22, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2921-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2921-2022
Brief communication
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05 Sep 2022
Brief communication |  | 05 Sep 2022

Brief communication: Western Europe flood in 2021 – mapping agriculture flood exposure from synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Kang He, Qing Yang, Xinyi Shen, and Emmanouil N. Anagnostou

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This study depicts the flood-affected areas in western Europe in July 2021 and particularly the agriculture land that was under flood inundation. The results indicate that the total inundated area over western Europe is about 1920 km2, of which 1320 km2 is in France. Around 64 % of the inundated area is agricultural land. We expect that the agricultural productivity in western Europe will have been severely impacted.
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