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 Satellites Atmospheric Composition Climate Land Ocean Weather Data Meteosat Metop Tags Polar ASCAT GOME-2 Meteosat First Generation (MFG) Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) MVIRI OLCI SEVIRI SLSTR SRAL Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Sentinel-3 Africa NOAA EPS Europe Asia S America Himawari GOES SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Climate Use Cases Date 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 6 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 in the 42-year satellite record. Case study 15 July–18 August 2019 Huge fires in the Arctic and Siberia Huge fires in the Arctic and Siberia during summer 2019, were seen by the Sentinel-3 and Metop satellites. Case study January–December 2019 Image Library top ten for 2019 A look at our most popular case studies from 2019. Case study 21 December 2018 03:00 UTC December solstice near the southern polar circle December solstice occurred in 2018 at 22:23 UTC on 21 December and could be 'seen' in satellite imagery. Case study 2 March 2017, 28 April, 7 May, 16 July, 30 July, 11 August and 21 August 2018 Phytoplankton blooms spotted by Sentinel-3 Images of the variety of species of phytoplankton that bloom in the world’s oceans and lakes in 2017 & 2018. Case study January–December 2017 Image Library top ten for 2017 A look at our most popular case studies from 2017.