Case studies Imagery and case studies of weather phenomena and environmental events observed by EUMETSAT's fleet of weather satellites. Sort Refine results Categories Sentinel Atmospheric composition Climate Ocean Weather Data Meteosat Metop Tags Sentinel-3 ASCAT AVHRR GOME-2 MSG OLCI SEVIRI SLSTR MTG Africa Copernicus IASI NOAA Metop-A Metop-B Metop Europe Asia SW Pacific S America Himawari GOES SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Polar Climate Use Cases Date 2020 Date January February March April September SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 9 results Case study 25 September 2020 13:35 UTC Arctic sea ice minimum 2020 In September 2020 the Arctic sea ice extent shrunk to the second lowest on record. Case study 18 April 2020 00:00 UTC-22 April 23:00 UTC Extensive DIBS in the Deformation Zone Pockmarked DIBS cloud, produced by a cyclone, entered an elongated deformation zone. Case study 13 April 2020 12:00 UTC-15 April 12:00 UTC Retour d’est or extended Bora flow along Po Valley Retour d’est along Po Valley in satellite imagery in April 2020. Case study 7 and 8 March 2020 Dust from a dry Patagonian lake reaches Atlantic Dust that lifted from a dry Patagonian lake, reached the Atlantic, Case study 22-27 February 2020, Various times Dust over the Canaries Record dense dust over the Canary Islands originates near the African coast. Case study 20 January 2020 10:00 UTC–21 January 14:00 UTC. 26 and 27 January 10:00 UTC Storm Gloria batters Spain and France Storm Gloria brought significant wind and rain to parts of Spain and France. Case study 12 January 2020 07:00 UTC–13 January 15:00 UTC Short but massive eruption of volcano Taal Volcano Taal, on Luzon Island in the Philippines, erupted for some hours in January 2020. Case study January-December 2020 Phytoplankton dynamics in east Arabian Sea Sea surface temperatures impact net primary productivity along east Arabian Sea. Case study Jan, Feb, March 2007-2020 Pollution levels drop during COVID-19 lockdown The COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020 had a visible effect on pollution.