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May–September 2018
Summer 2018 in much of Europe was characterised by prolonged heatwaves, leading to droughts in some areas.
1984 & 2003
Can surface albedo change in the Sahel, due to rainfall, can be quantified using satellite observations.
26 March 2015 13:30 UTC
On Thursday 26th March 2015, an unusual rain event brought almost an inch of precipitation to the Atacama, Antofagasta and Coquimbo regions.
18 July 2019
Changes to the Meteosat Active Fire Monitoring (FIR) product are now due to take place in August (previously end of July).
Air quality, long-range transport & threat monitoring of suspended air particles.
10 January 2007 00:00 UTC
In the early weeks of 2007, heavy rain caused many deaths in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo resulting from severe flooding and related accidents.
4 November–2 December 2019
Instabilities in ocean currents can be identified through synergistic use of data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites.
13 November 2006 00:00 UTC
Severe storm at Klerksdorp, South Africa in November 2006.
June and July 2019
Maximum temperature records were broken in many parts of Europe, due to heatwaves.
Period June–July 2016 and 2017
Following an extremely dry spring causing a drought, parts of Italy suffered from water shortages in 2017.
28 November 2013 09:00–18:00 UTC
Severe thunderstorms with golf ball size hail and flash floods hit Gauteng province of South Africa in late November.
The H SAF generates and archives datasets and products for operational hydrological applications.