Case Study
Land
Atmospheric composition
Weather
Data
Meteosat
Metop
Sentinel
SEVIRI
Europe
ASCAT
AVHRR
MSG
OLCI
SLSTR
MTG
Sentinel-3
Africa
Metop-C
Metop-A
Metop-B
Asia
Himawari
Terra/Aqua
MODIS
AHI
2019
April
June
August
1 June 2019 02:00–5 June 12:00 UTC
Smoke from wildfires in Alberta, Canada travelled as far as parts of Europe and Russia.
17 August 2019 14:45 UTC–20 August 09:30 UTC
In August 2019 parts of Gran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands, were devastated by two large wildfires.
10 August 2019 06:00–20:45 UTC and 11 August 06:00–13:00 UTC
The Greek island of Elafonisos suffered from major wildfires in August 2019.
15 April 2019 16:00–23:15 UTC
Heat signatures from the fire that destroyed parts of Notre-Dame could be seen on satellite imagery.
June and July 2019
Maximum temperature records were broken in many parts of Europe, due to heatwaves.