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 Sentinel Satellites Land Ocean Weather Data Meteosat Metop Tags OLCI Sentinel-3 ASCAT AVHRR GOME-2 Meteosat First Generation (MFG) Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) MVIRI SEVIRI SLSTR SRAL Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Africa Copernicus IASI Metop-C NOAA IODC Metop-A Metop-B EPS Europe Asia SW Pacific S America Himawari GOES Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Polar Indian Ocean Date 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 22 results Case study 15-22 March 2022 Widespread dust intrusion across Europe Continental-wide plume of Saharan dust across Europe in March 2022. Case study 8 August 2021 08:25-10:25 UTC Smoke and burned areas from Greek fires Smoke and burned area scars from the Greek wildfires in Aug 2021 seen in satellite imagery. Case study 28-29 July 2021 Large smoke plume from wildfires in Russia In summer 2021 Russia saw unprecedented widespread wildfires ravage large swathes of Siberia. Case study 26 July-2 August 2021 Widespread smoke from Turkish fires In summer 2021 parts of the Mediterranean Sea were shrouded in smoke from wildfires along Turkey's coast. Case study 22 May 2021, 18:00 UTC to 23 May, 17:15 UTC Destructive eruption of volcano Nyiragongo In the evening of 22 May 2021 volcano Nyiragongo started to erupt, threatening life and property. Case study 17 May 2021 02:30-13:00 UTC and 18 May 01:00 UTC Tropical Cyclone Tauktae Tropical Cyclone Tauktae made landfall in the Indian state of Gujarat on 17 May 2021. 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 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 7 and 8 March 2020 Dust from a dry Patagonian lake reaches Atlantic Dust that lifted from a dry Patagonian lake and reached the Atlantic could be seen on various satellite images in March 2020. 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 5 and 6 January 2019 03:00–13:00 UTC Outflow of winter smog over north Indian Ocean On 6 January 2019 Indian winter smog spread over the north Indian Ocean. Case study January–December 2019 Image Library top ten for 2019 A look at our most popular case studies from 2019. Load More