Case studies Imagery and case studies of weather phenomena and environmental events observed by EUMETSAT's fleet of weather satellites. Sort Refine results Categories Weather Satellites Atmospheric Composition Land Ocean Data Meteosat Metop Sentinel Tags Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) VIIRS AVHRR Meteosat First Generation (MFG) MVIRI OLCI SEVIRI Sentinel-3 Africa Metop-A Europe Asia Himawari GOES Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS ABI AHI Polar Date 2016 Date February March April June December SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 8 results Case study January–December 2017 Image Library top ten for 2017 A look at our most popular case studies from 2017. Case study 24 December 2016 03:00 UTC–4 January 2017 03:00 UTC Lingering fog over the Arabian Peninsula From 24 December and for more than 10 days, a thick fog invaded the Arabian Gulf countries resulting in limited night-morning visibility. Case study 26 June 2016 03:00 UTC Gravity waves over the South Atlantic Interplay of atmospheric gravity waves over the South Atlantic off the African coast. Case study 20 June 2016 22:00 UTC–21 June 01:45 UTC June solstice 2016 June solstice 2016 took place at 22:34 UTC on 20 June. Case study 12 April 2016 00:00 UTC–18 April 13:30 UTC Tropical Cyclone Fantala Tropical Cyclone Fantala showed a very clearly defined eye as the storm reached Category 5 level in mid-April. Case study 1 and 2 April 2016 12:00 UTC and 01:50 UTC Saharan dust causes temperature drop Some areas of Europe saw a significant drop in temperatures on 1 April 2016 due to a large cloud of Saharan dust. Case study 22 March 2016 00:00 UTC–24 March 06:00 UTC Cyclone Ivan brings massive dust storm Cyclone Ivan brought an impressive low that carried huge amounts of dust to parts of Europe at the end of March. Case study 18 February 2016 12:00 UTC–22 February 00:00 UTC Unusual heavy snowfalls in the Canary Islands The snow started to fall on 18 February and continued to fall on 19 and 20 February.
