Case studies

Mount Etna very active in February & March 2021

Regular Etna eruptions observed in February 2021.

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 - stretching from France to Turkey.

Retour d’est or extended Bora flow along Po Valley

Retour d’est along Po Valley in satellite imagery in April 2020.

Dust lifted from a dry Patagonian lake reaches the South Atlantic

Dust that lifted from a dry Patagonian lake and reached the Atlantic could be seen on various satellite images in March 2020.

Devastating Typhoon Hagibis

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

Mount Pico in the Azores shrouded in orographically-induced clouds

In late-September 2019 Mount Pico in the Azores was shrouded in clouds formed by the orographic effect.

Image Library top ten for 2019

A look at our most popular case studies from 2019.