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 Data Meteosat Land Weather Science Metop Sentinel Tags Metop-A AMSU ASCAT AVHRR GOME-2 MFG MSG OLCI SEVIRI MTG Sentinel-3 Africa IASI NOAA IODC Metop-B Metop Europe Asia S America Himawari GOES Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Indian Ocean Date 2021 2020 2018 2016 2014 2010 2008 2007 2004 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 17 results Case study 17 May 2021 02:30-13:00 UTC and 18 May 01:00 UTC Tropical Cyclone Tauktae Tropical Cyclone Tauktae made landfall in the Indian state of Gujarat on 17 May 2021. Case study 22 July 2001-11 March 2021 Monitoring Mount Etna for more than 20 years Here we take look back at cases since 2001, which have focused on Mount Etna. Case study 23 February 2021 14:00 UTC-24 February 00:00 UTC Spotting Etesian winds in solar imagery using moonglint Etesian winds spotted in the solar spectrum in Feb 2021. Case study 4 December 2020 00:00 UTC-10 December 09:00 UTC Nearly-record snowfall in the western Alps Winter 2020 started with more than 2 m snow in the Alps and an extreme amount of rain. Case study 18 April 2020 00:00 UTC-22 April 23:00 UTC Extensive DIBS in the Deformation Zone Pockmarked DIBS cloud, produced by a cyclone, entered an elongated deformation zone. Case study 6-15 May 2018 Transport of African-Arabian dust to Pakistan & north India In May 2018 dust clouds from Africa and the Arabian peninsula travelled as far as India. Case study 28 March 2016 06:01 UTC Eruption of Pavlof volcano, Alaska The Pavlof volcano erupted, sending ash plumes more than 20,000ft into the air. 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. Case study 15 December 2014 01:00–15:30 UTC Contrails over the Persian Gulf Contrails over the Persian Gulf were seen by both Meteosat-10 and Metop-A in mid-December. Case study 1 April 02:56 UTC–2 April 2014 02:58 High air pollution in parts of Western Europe Metop GOME-2 observed elevated levels of NO2 total column concentration over Europe. Case study 24 December 2010 00:00 UTC Haze veil on the Pakistani coast Dust from dried out Indus River and Rann of Kutch caused a veil off the coast. Case study 23 August 2010 00:00 UTC Large smoke plumes from fires over Bolivia Large smoke plumes from fires over Bolivia. Load More