Case studies Imagery and case studies of weather phenomena and environmental events observed by EUMETSAT's fleet of weather satellites. Filter by Categories Satellites Atmospheric Composition Land Ocean Weather Meteosat Metop Sentinel Jason Tags AMSU ASCAT AVHRR GOME-2 Meteosat First Generation (MFG) Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) MHS MVIRI OLCI SEVIRI SLSTR SRAL Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Sentinel-3 Africa Copernicus EPS Europe Asia SW Pacific North America, Central America & Caribbean S America Himawari GOES Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Polar Atlantic Ocean NOAA Date 2021 2020 2019 2018 2015 2014 2012 2011 2010 2008 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 52 results Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending Sort Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16-28 February and 2-11 March 2021 EUMETSAT Science Blog Mount Etna very active in February & March 2021 Regular Etna eruptions observed in February 2021. Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15 February 2021 07:00 UTC-19 February 08:00 UTC EUMETSAT Science Blog Large dust plume ejecting off west Africa Saharan dust heading for Europe in Feb 2021; second major dust outbreak of the season Monday, 22 February 2021 15 February 2021 00:00 UTC-16 February 09:00 UTC EUMETSAT Science Blog End of the cold spell in western Europe, arrival of cold air in south-eastern Europe Cold spell in Germany ended with freezing rain on 15 February. Snowstorm hit Greece and western Turkey. Tuesday, 12 January 2021 8 January 2021 09:00 UTC-11 January 13:00 UTC EUMETSAT Science Blog Heavy snow in parts of Spain Parts of central Spain saw their heaviest snowfalls in decades in January 2021. Wednesday, 24 February 2021 12 September 2020 11:37-13:07 UTC EUMETSAT Science Blog Smoke from California fires above Europe seen by NOAA-20 Smoke from California fires seen in the NOAA-20 VIIRS 1.38 micron band. Saturday, 18 April 2020 18 April 2020 00:00 UTC-22 April 23:00 UTC EUMETSAT Science Blog 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. Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14 April 2020 05:00-18:00 UTC EUMETSAT Science Blog Signatures of foehn and bora situations in water vapour images The foehn situation on 14 April 2020 and on how it is seen in water vapour imagery. Tuesday, 2 February 2021 13 April 2020 12:00 UTC-15 April 12:00 UTC EUMETSAT Science Blog Retour d’est or extended Bora flow along Po Valley Retour d’est along Po Valley in satellite imagery in April 2020. Sunday, 8 March 2020 9 March 2020 00:00 UTC–10 March 23:00 UTC EUMETSAT Science Blog Cross-Atlantic moisture transport Moisture transport from sub-tropical Atlantic brought precipitation to the UK and parts of western Europe on 9 and 10 March 2020. Friday, 6 March 2020 7 and 8 March 2020 EUMETSAT Science Blog 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. Tuesday, 8 October 2019 08 October 2019 00:16 UTC–12 October 12:00 UTC, 13 October EUMETSAT Science Blog Devastating Typhoon Hagibis Typhoon Hagibis was the worst storm to hit Japan for half a century, when it made landfall in mid-October 2019. Wednesday, 25 September 2019 25 and 26 September 2019 12:00 UTC EUMETSAT Science Blog 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. Load More
