Case studies Imagery and case studies of weather phenomena and environmental events observed by EUMETSAT's fleet of weather satellites. Sort Refine results Categories Atmospheric Composition Meteosat Sentinel Satellites Land Ocean Weather Data Metop Tags Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Sentinel-3 SNPP VIIRS ASCAT AVHRR Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) OLCI SEVIRI Africa NOAA Metop-A EPS Europe Asia SW Pacific S America Himawari GOES MODIS ABI AHI Date 2020 2018 2017 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 5 results Case study 18 April 2020 00:00 UTC-22 April 23:00 UTC Extensive DIBS in the Deformation Zone In April 2020, pockmarked DIBS cloud, produced by a cyclone over the Mediterranean Sea, entered an elongated deformation zone. Case study 26 July 2018 04:00 UTC to 3 August 06:00 UTC Dense dust outbreak across Arabian peninsula Summer Shamal pushed dense dust across the Arabian peninsula and over the Arabian Sea in late summer 2018. Case study 19 February 2018 00:00–19:00 UTC Violent blast from Sinabung volcano Ash plumes from the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Sinabung could be seen in satellite imagery on 19 February 2018. Case study January–December 2018 Image Library top ten for 2018 A look at our most popular case studies from 2018 Case study 22 September 2017 17:00–25 September 06:30 UTC and 1 October 19:00–21:00 UTC Eruption of volcano Aoba (Ambae) in Vanuatu archipelago Vanuatu erupted in the days from 22 September 2017 onward.