Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 7
Articles | Volume 24, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2375-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2375-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 24, issue 7
Brief communication
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16 Jul 2024
Brief communication | Highlight paper |  | 16 Jul 2024

Brief communication: Storm Daniel flood impact in Greece in 2023: mapping crop and livestock exposure from synthetic-aperture radar (SAR)

Kang He, Qing Yang, Xinyi Shen, Elias Dimitriou, Angeliki Mentzafou, Christina Papadaki, Maria Stoumboudi, and Emmanouil N. Anagnostou

Data sets

GPM IMERG Late Precipitation L3 Half Hourly 0.1 degree x 0.1 degree V06 G. J. Huffman et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/GPM/IMERG/3B-HH-L/06

CORINE land cover and land cover change products, in: Land use and land cover mapping in Europe: practices & trends (https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover/clc2018) G. Büttner https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7969-3_5

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This is a very first manuscript focussing on the impact of the extreme precipitation event over Greece in September 2023. The analysis on the crop area and numbers of livestock exposed to flooding from the historic precipitation caused by storm Daniel in central Greece on September 3–8, 2023 should be of wider interest for the scientific community, the broader public and the media.
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About 820 km2 of agricultural land was inundated in central Greece due to Storm Daniel. A detailed analysis revealed that the crop most affected by the flooding was cotton; the inundated area of more than 282 km2 comprised ~ 30 % of the total area planted with cotton in central Greece. In terms of livestock, we estimate that more than 14 000 ornithoids and 21 500 sheep and goats were affected. Consequences for agriculture and animal husbandry in Greece are expected to be severe.
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