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 Metop Land Weather Data Meteosat Sentinel Jason Tags GOME-2 Metop-B ASCAT AVHRR MFG MSG OLCI SEVIRI SLSTR Third Party Sentinel-3 Sentinel-6 Africa Altimeters Atmosphere Copernicus IASI Metop-C NOAA Metop-A Metop Europe Asia North America, Central America & Caribbean Himawari GOES Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Pacific Ocean Date 2023 2022 2021 2020 2014 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 8 results Case study 4-7 May 2023 First major fire events at high latitudes Fire signatures and the smoke plumes from first major wildfire episodes in 2023 at high latitudes are highly visible in different satellite observations. Case study 21-26 April and 4-5 May 2022 Springtime dust outbreaks In Spring 2022, numerous dust outbreaks affected the Mediterranean basin area. Case study 13 January 2022 15:00-23:50 UTC and 14 January 04:51 UTC-17 January 04:30 UTC Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai major eruptions The underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai in the Pacific, erupted a numerous times. Case study 9-12 April 2021 Major eruption of La Soufrière volcano Major eruption of the Caribbean volcano La Soufrière in early April 2021. Case study 22 July 2001-11 March 2021 Monitoring Mount Etna for more than 20 years Here we take look back at cases since 2001, which have focused on Mount Etna. Case study 15 August-22 September 2020 Impact of California 2020 fires on atmospheric composition Using satellite data to investigate the atmospheric impact of the 2020 California fires. 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. Case study 1 April 02:56 UTC–2 April 2014 02:58 High air pollution in parts of Western Europe Metop GOME-2 observed elevated levels of NO2 total column concentration over Europe.