Case studies

Instabilities in ocean currents can be identified through synergistic use of data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites.

Typhoon Hagibis was the worst storm to hit Japan for half a century, when it made landfall in mid-October 2019.

In August 2019 parts of Gran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands, were devastated by two large wildfires.

Wildfires in Greenland were observed by Sentinel-3 on 15 July 2019.

Huge fires in the Arctic and Siberia during Summer 2019, were seen by the Sentinel-3 and Metop satellites.

Maximum temperature records were broken in many parts of Europe in June and July 2019, due to a series of heatwaves.