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 Land Ocean Weather Data Meteosat Metop Jason Tags ASCAT AVHRR MSG OLCI SEVIRI SLSTR SRAL Third Party MTG Sentinel-3 Africa Altimeters Metop-A Metop Europe Asia North America, Central America & Caribbean S America Himawari GOES SNPP VIIRS ABI AHI Polar Atlantic Ocean Date 2017 Date February March April June July August September SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 9 results Case study 22 September 2017 17:00–25 September 06:30 UTC, 1 October 19:00–21:00 UTC and 5 April 2018 00:00 UTC–14 April 00:00 UTC Eruptions of volcano Aoba in Vanuatu archipelago Intermittent eruptions from Aoba in 2017 and 2018. Case study August and September 2017 Record-breaking 2017 hurricane season The North Atlantic hurricane season on 2017 has proved to be both devastating and record-breaking so far. Case study 18 July 2017 09:00–17:00 UTC Severe flooding in Cornwall The Coverack in West Cornwall was badly damaged by flooding after a storm brought torrential rain to the area on 18 July 2017. Case study 18 June 2017 06:00–19:00 UTC and 19 June 06:00 UTC Devastating wildfires in Portugal Hot spots and smoke from a deadly, widespread forest fire in central Portugal could be seen by Meteosat, Sentinel-3 and Suomi-NPP on 18, 19 & 20 June 2017 Case study 4 April 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, 16 April 14:56 UTC Floods in South America Due to reinforcing of El Niño large areas of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru were severely affected by weeks of almost continuous rain. Case study 18 March 2017 09:30 UTC–19 March 12:12 UTC Clear skies over the Mediterranean Satellite images of the Mediterranean sea are informative even on clear days, as is shown in this case from March 2017. Case study 8 March 2017 06:31 UTC and 10 March 06:34 UTC Oil spill over Arabian Gulf On 8 March 2017 an oil spill occurred in the Arabian Gulf off the west coast of UAE and reached the Al-Fujairah coast. 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 March to June 2017 South African algal blooms Detection of harmful algal blooms in the southern Benguela, as seen by OLCI aboard Sentinel-3.
