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 Climate Land Ocean Data Meteosat Metop Sentinel Tags Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) AMSU ASCAT AVHRR GOME-2 Meteosat First Generation (MFG) MVIRI OLCI SEVIRI SLSTR SRAL Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Sentinel-3 Africa Altimeters Copernicus NOAA Metop-A Metop-B EPS Europe Asia North America, Central America & Caribbean S America Himawari GOES Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Polar Atlantic Ocean Climate Use Cases Date 2018 Date January February March April May June July August September October November December SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 37 results Case study January–December 2019 Image Library top ten for 2019 A look at our most popular case studies from 2019. Case study 21 December 2018 03:00 UTC December solstice near the southern polar circle December solstice occurred in 2018 at 22:23 UTC on 21 December and could be 'seen' in satellite imagery. Case study 15 November 2018 07:00–15:00 UTC Contrail shadows over the stratus Unusually shaped shadow contours of high contrail clouds, casted over the wide stratus field, were explored through various VIIRS (i.e. FCI proxy) and SEVIRI products. Case study 27 October 2018 00:00 UTC–02 November 00:00 UTC Intense Mediterranean cyclone's alpine crossing A cyclone that intensified over Mediterranean waters took a very direct path over the Alps. Case study 19 October 2018 03:00–14:00 UTC Isolated convective complex over upper Persian Gulf On 19 October 2018 a convective complex developed over open waters in the upper Persian Gulf. Case study 09 October 2018 09:55 UTC–10 October 02:40 UTC Severe flash floods in Mallorca Overnight 9/10 October 2018 severe storms caused devastating flash floods on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Case study 6 October 2018 06:00 UTC–14 October 18:00 UTC Lifecycle of Tropical Cyclone Luban Life cycle of tropical storm over the Arabian Sea in October 2018. Case study 18 September 2018 00:00–21 September 00:00 UTC Synoptic dipole over Europe A vivid cyclone-anticyclone duo dominated the synoptic situation over Europe on 18-20 September 2018. Case study 30 August 2018 12:00 UTC–17 September 23:00 UTC Hurricane Florence Hurricane Florence was the first major hurricane of the 2018 North Atlantic hurricane season and caused major devastation when it hit the US east coast in mid-September. Case study 27 August 2018 08:00 UTC August snowfall in the Alps Fresh summer snow appeared over high Alpine areas after the end of a warm spell over much of Europe. Case study 26 July 2018 04:00 UTC to 3 August 06:00 UTC Dense dust outbreak across Arabian peninsula Summer Shamal pushed dense dust across the Arabian peninsula and over the Arabian Sea in late summer 2018. Case study 30 June 2018 00:00–23:00 UTC Sharp moisture boundary seen by SEVIRI and MODIS A sharp low level moisture boundary that stretched over the central Europe in June 2018, was well observed by both the SEVIRI Dust RGB product and MODIS 0.935 µm channel. Load More