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 Atmospheric composition Land Ocean Data Meteosat Metop Sentinel Jason Tags SEVIRI GOES AMSU ASCAT AVHRR MSG MHS MVIRI OLCI Sentinel-4 SLSTR SRAL Third Party MTG Sentinel-3 Africa Altimeters IASI NOAA Metop-A Metop Europe Asia North America, Central America & Caribbean S America Himawari Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Date 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2015 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2005 2002 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 23 results Case study 22 October 2021 12:00 UTC Heavy drizzle on the north side of Madeira Warm rain clouds over Madeira in October 2021. Case study 26 January 2021 00:00 UTC-29 January 10:00 UTC Storm Justine hits the Azores In January 2021 storms formed in North Atlantic, one of them close to the Azores. Case study 1 June-30 November 2020 End of a busy 2020 Atlantic hurricane season Record-breaking 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season, with 30 named tropical storms. Case study 5 June 2020 00:00 UTC–26 June 21:00 UTC Exceptional Saharan dust transport over the Atlantic In June, large amounts of Saharan dust travelled all the way to the Caribbean and the US. Case study 24 February 2020 15:00 UTC and 25 February 13:00–23:45 UTC Dusty Dry Conveyor Belt The Dry Conveyor Belt (DCB) could be traced in satellite imagery in February 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 9–19 June 2019, Various times Torrential rain and floods in Uruguay Torrential rain hit central Uruguay in June 2019, causing serious flooding. Case study 24 March 2019 11:00 UTC–25 March 10:00 UTC Rare tropical storm in the southern Atlantic In late March 2019 a rare tropical storm formed in the south Atlantic basin. Case study 10 March 2019 00:00 UTC–11 March 09:00 UTC Large dust fan (Spanish Dancer) over west Africa Synoptic scale dust outbreak over west Africa in March 2019. Case study 26 June 2018 00:00 UTC–1 July 00:00 UTC Meteosat-11 and GOES-16 eyes on dust transport over Atlantic Dust lifted over Sahara by the ITCZ convective activity was transported over the Atlantic. Case study 25 April 2018 00:00–23:00 UTC Sea-ice melt water spills into Labrador Current Ice melt along the coast resulted in freshwater water spill over the Labrador Current. Case study August, September and October 2017 Record-breaking 2017 hurricane season North Atlantic hurricane season in 2017 was both devastating and record-breaking. Load More
