EUMETSAT Learning Zone

The place to learn about monitoring the weather and climate from space

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The jet stream can provide good tailwinds for aircraft, but can also give storms extra energy and send them towards Europe. Find out more about the jet streams and how we identify them from space. 

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Read how one meteorology student thinks new young scientists will change the world. 

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Some amazing cloud formations were hard to identify and image before satellites. Click here to find out how these swirls of cloud, called Von Kármán Vortices, form. 

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How to scientists calculate how much ice is in the Arctic? With satellite pictures and some straightforward maths, you can do it too!

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Notes made at sea in log books long before the space age can help climate scientists improve modelling of our atmosphere. Find out more and how you can get involved. 

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Lightning can tell us a lot about what is happening in a storm. The next generation of Meteosat satellites will carry a Lightning Imager to improve nowcasting of severe weather. 

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EUMETSAT's satellites look down at the Earth all the time, but have you ever thought about looking up at them? 

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Dust from the Sahara Desert can be tracked by satellite, and affects plants and animals a long way from Africa. 

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Volcanoes explode launching ash and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, and we can see it. Find out more. 

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Sea turtles, birds, elephants, and jellyfish are just some of the animals that are tracked from space using the Argos System. Find out Metop's role in this amazing scientific network. 

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New animation: Two orbits, one Earth 

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What are hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones? And what can satellites do to see the oncoming storm? 

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Dust from the Sahara Desert took a trip north in April. The dust made for interesting sunsets and sunrises, and also fell on cars as far away as Britain and Ireland. See how the dust made its journey. 

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Weather forecasts rely on data from satellites - and often images which don't look particularly spectacular can yield important data about the physical processes in the atmosphere at different times. Some instruments aboard satellites can show phenomena that would not normally be visible to the human eye. When it comes to clouds, we can see a lot from space. Find out more about these 10 cloud formations we see with satellites. 

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This visualisation shows the transit of the moon during the solar eclipse which took place on Sunday 3 November 2013, between 07:30 and 18:30 UTC, as observed by EUMETSAT's Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite. For more detailed information about the eclipse, including additional imagery, see: http://bit.ly/Iu9Ohk

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This visualisation shows the world's weather from 1 January to 30 September 2013, as seen from space. The visualisation is composed of imagery taken by the geostationary satellites of EUMETSAT, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). To find out more about these organisations, follow: http://www.eumetsat.int http://www.noaa.gov http://www.jma.go.jp