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 Land Meteosat Ocean Weather Data Metop Sentinel Tags Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) SEVIRI Sentinel-3 ASCAT GOME-2 Meteosat First Generation (MFG) MVIRI OLCI SLSTR SRAL Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Africa Copernicus Metop-C NOAA EPS Europe Asia S America Himawari GOES Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Polar Date 2022 2021 2018 2017 2016 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 8 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 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 16-28 February and 2-11 March 2021 Mount Etna very active in February & March 2021 Regular Etna eruptions observed in February and March 2021. Case study January–December 2019 Image Library top ten for 2019 A look at our most popular case studies from 2019. Case study 7 March 2018 02:00–13:00 UTC Sentinel-3 'sees' black smoke from ship fire In early March 2018 Sentinel-3 'saw' black smoke from a container ship fire, thanks to sunglint from the ocean surface. Case study January–December 2018 Image Library top ten for 2018 A look at our most popular case studies from 2018 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 January–December 2017 Image Library top ten for 2017 A look at our most popular case studies from 2017.