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 Land Ocean Weather Data Meteosat Metop Sentinel Jason Tags MTG Sentinel-3 ASCAT AVHRR MSG OLCI SEVIRI SLSTR SRAL Third Party Africa Altimeters NOAA Metop-A Metop Europe Asia SW Pacific North America, Central America & Caribbean S America Himawari GOES Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Atlantic Ocean Date 2020 2019 2018 2017 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 11 results 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 17 August 2019 14:45 UTC–20 August 09:30 UTC Gran Canaria wildfires In August 2019 parts of Gran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands, were devastated by two large wildfires. Case study 29 January 2019, 06:00 UTC–31 January 16:00 UTC. US big freeze as seen from space Features of the 'Big Freeze' which affected parts of North America in January 2019. Case study 11 November 2018 18:22 UTC and 23:30 UTC Smoke from California wildfires Smoke from devastating, widespread wildfires in California in November 2018, was seen by Sentinel-3. 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 8 May 2018 09:33 UTC First images from Sentinel-3B This case looks at some first images from the new Sentinel-3B. Case study 25 April 2018 00:00–23:00 UTC Sea-ice melt water spills into Labrador Current Ice melt along the Labrador coast resulted in freshwater water spill over the Labrador Current in April 2018. Case study 19 February 2018 00:00–19:00 UTC Violent blast from Sinabung volcano Ash plumes from the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Sinabung could be seen in satellite imagery on 19 February 2018. Case study 22 September 2017 17:00–25 September 06:30 UTC, 1 October 19:00–21:00 UTC and 5 April 2018 00:00 UTC–14 April 00:00 UTC Eruptions of volcano Aoba in Vanuatu archipelago Intermittent eruptions from Aoba in 2017 and 2018. Case study August and September 2017 Record-breaking 2017 hurricane season The North Atlantic hurricane season on 2017 has proved to be both devastating and record-breaking so far. Case study 4 April 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, 16 April 14:56 UTC Floods in South America Due to reinforcing of El Niño large areas of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru were severely affected by weeks of almost continuous rain.
