Series of online short courses on data discovery for weather, oceanography, air quality and climate

Future events

  • 12 October - 16 November (every Thursday) - Data Access Services - Customise products to your needs with EUMETSAT Data Tailor Register
  • 18 October 2023, 12:00 UTC - Data Access Services - How to use the Jupyter Notebooks from the EUMETSAT Data Access Services  - (30 minutes) Register
  • 23 November 2023, 12:00 UTC - Data Access Services - How to use the EUMETSAT Data Access Client (EUMDAC) through Command Line Interface and as a Python library - (30 minutes) Register

The courses are open and address a wide range of attendees, from service providers to  scientists and forecasters. Participants will have the opportunity to learn: 

      • which are the EUMETSAT and Copernicus free and open data.
      • where to access the data and where to find information about the data.
      • how to handle the data using the tools proposed.
The format of each short course is a 1-2 hour webinar on Zoom including a presentation and demonstration of data discovery and application. You will have the opportunity to interact with experts and ask questions. Some courses will include a follow-up  phase where you can explore the data on your own and get expert feedback. 
 
Certificates of participation may be awarded upon request. 
All sessions will be recorded.  

Past events:
  • Ongoing - Data Access Services | Go to course page
  • 20 September 2023, 12:00 UTC - CLARA - A new Climate Data Record on Earth Radiation Budget | Go to course page
  • 19 July 2023, 11:00 UTC - Warming oceans: using satellite to monitor sea surface temperature, ocean heat content and marine heatwaves | Go to course page
  • 11 July 2023, 08:00 UTC - Wildfire Monitoring with Next-Generation Satellites | Go to course page
  • 14 June 2023, 12:00 UTC - SARAH – A Climate Data Record on Surface Solar Radiation  | Go to course page 
  • 7 June 2023, 12:00 UTC - How to develop impactful and educational Jupyter notebooks? | Go to course page
  • 31 May 2023, 12:00 UTC -  Discovering MTG-I1 data using the SIFT visualisation tool | Go to course page
  • 16, 17 May 2023, 08:00 UTC - EUMETSAT MTG-I data Reception and Visualization (Arabic) 2023  | Go to course page
  • 2 May 2023, 12:00 UTC - Dust monitoring and forecasting: 2023 events | Go to course page 
  • 19 April 2023, 12:00 UTC - CLAAS - A Climate Data Record of Cloud Properties | Go to course page 
  • 29 March 2023 - New approaches and tools for performing ocean colour match-up analyses with OLCI | Go to course page
  • 29 Sept 2022 - Recent Developments in Altimetry Measurements - Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Go to course page
  • 6 July 2022 - Wildfire Monitoring with Next-Generation Satellites | Go to course
  • 8 June 2022 - Marine Weather Forecasting | Go to course
  • 4 May 2022 - The AI Mooc - The story behind a Mooc (from marketing to funding, instructional design and implementation) | Go to course
  • 20 April 2022 - Fire Danger Near Real Time Monitoring in the Mediterranean region | Go to course
  • 12 April 2022 - Convective storms - What can satellite data tell us? Go to course
  • 6 April 2022 - Dust monitoring with satellite and ground-based observations | Go to course
  • 16 March 2022 - AI for atmospheric composition - how to enhance resolution using satellite data Go to course
  • 16 February 2022 - Explore Analysis Ready Data (ARD) with the data cube for atmospheric composition | Go to course 
  • 1 February 2022 - OSI SAF webinars: Climate Data Records | Go to course
  • 27 January 2022 - OSI SAF webinars: Sea Ice Parameters | Go to course
  • 25 January 2022 - Ocean and Sea Ice (OSI) SAF webinar: Sea Surface Temperature | Go to course
  • 8 December 2021 - Coding for EO (Python & R) | Go to course 
  • 24 November 2021 - Winter Weather in Satellite Data | Go to course
  • 9 November 2021 - Weather-related satellite data with Jupyter Notebooks | Go to course
  • 4 November 2021 Application of machine learning approaches to ocean colour topics | Go to course 
  • 19 October 2021 - Gap Filling Ocean Data (statistical and machine learning methods) | Go to course 
  • 6 October 2021 - Machine Learning for Seamless Thunderstorm Nowcasting from Multiple Data Sources | Go to course 
  • 16 June 2021 A Climate Data Record of Soil moisture in the root zone | Go to course 
  • 31 May 2021 - EUMETSAT New Data Services for Data Centre Users - Accessing and Tailoring SEVIRI 1.5 Data | Go to course 
  • 19 May 2021 - Exploring the EUMETSAT Land-Surface Temperature Data Records | Go to course 
  • 12 May 2021 - Spot atmospheric convection from satellite: What satellite data is used in convection analysis | Go to course 
  • 14 April 2021 - The temperature of the sea surface | Go to course 
  • 17 March 2021 - How to build a case study – a demo session | Go to course 
  • 18 Febr 2021 - The ozone hole tour | Go to course
  • 3 Febr 2021 - Applications of R-Instat to analyse and validate satellite based climate time series Go to course
  • 20 Jan 2021 - Learn to use an R based toolbox to analyse climate time series - Basics | Go to course 
  • 9 Dec 2020 - What is a gridded dataset and how to create it ? A case study on pollutants before and after COVID lockdown with GOME-2 instrument | Go to course 
  • 25 Nov 2020 - The colour of the oceans | Go to course 
  • 10 Nov 2020 - The monthly weather briefing of EUMeTrain | Go to recording
  • 28 Oct 2020 - A climate data record of "sunshine", SARAH | Go to course 
  • 14 Oct 2020 - Summer(s) of fires: the 2019 wildfires in Australia | Go to course 
  • 6 Oct 2020 Satellite skills training online: a short introduction | Go to course 
  • 30 Sept 2020 - A light on heat: what radiation tells about soil, air and fire | Go to course 
  • 16 Sept 2020 - How high is the sea? A discovery of altimetry data | Go to course 

This online short course presents CLARA-A3, the latest edition a global climate data record on clouds, surface albedo and surface radiation, generated by the Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF).

Webinar with Steffen Kothe (DWD), Christine Traeger Chatterjee (EUMETSAT).

20 September 2023 - 12:00 UTC


This advanced event will focus on the application of satellite sea surface temperature (SST) measurements to several current applications including ocean heat content, cyclogenesis, and marine heatwaves. 

Webinar with Hayley Evers-King, EUMETSAT, Thibault Guinaldo, Meteo France, Ben Loveday, EUMETSAT, Ana Oliveira, +ATLANTIC CoLAB, William Skirving, NOAA CoralReef Watch.


19 July 2023 - 11:00 UTC


Recently launched and upcoming satellites, such as the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite (launched in December 2022) and the Metop - Second Generation (Metop-SG) (to be launched in 2025) will provide advanced capabilities and valuable data for monitoring fires and their impacts. This short course showcases a series of case studies and associated workflows in Jupyter notebooks for fire applications using proxy data from MTG and Metop-SG. In addition to past case studies, join us to explore the data visualisations from the Canadian fires during summer 2023! 

Webinar with Federico Fierli, Andrea Meraner, Sabrina Szeto, EUMETSAT

11 July 2023 - 08:00 UTC


This online short course presents SARAH-3, the latest edition of the SEVIRI-based climate data record on surface radiation, generated by the Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF).

Webinar with Steffen Kothe (DWD), Uwe Pfeifroth (DWD), Christine Traeger Chatterjee (EUMETSAT), Antonio Vecoli (EUMETSAT).

14 June 2023 - 12:00 UTC


By using Project Jupyter tools primarily for Earth observation data education, EUMETSAT is pioneering and advocating for the need to make notebooks more educational and has developed and published five guiding principles on how to do so. 

This short course will give you an introduction to these five guiding principles and for each principle you will get a hands-on example how it can be applied and implemented.

Webinar with Julia Wagemann, EUMETSAT

7 June 2023 - 12:00 UTC


In this event, EUMETSAT is demonstrating a multi-mission data visualisation tool SIFT which is suited for viewing and analysing data from MTG-I1 missions. SIFT is an open-source software released by EUMETSAT and University of Wisconsin, which utilizes the popular Satpy python-package for data reading. We also show an upgraded version of the web-based EUMETView tool.

Webinar with Stephan Bojinski, Andrea Meraner and Erdem Erdi, EUMETSAT 

31 May 2023 - 12:00 UTC


The main objective is to raise awareness of the evaluations in EUMETCast-Europe Service and changes to be performed on the satellite reception stations. A second part of the course will focus on basics of MTG-I data handling.

with Erdem Erdi (EUMETSAT)

16, 17 May 2023, 8:00 UTC


Europe experiences regular Saharan dust transports across the Iberian peninsula, France, Spain that sometimes even reach central and northern Europe. In 2023, the first large-scale dust transport episode took place in mid-February. Taking this event as a case study, this short course will give you an overview of how you can use satellite and ground-based observation as well as model forecasts to monitor and forecast Saharan dust episodes.

Webinar with Anu-Maija Sundström, FMI, and Julia Wagemann, EUMETSAT

2 May 2023, 12:00 UTC




This online short course presents CLAAS-3, the latest edition of the SEVIRI-based climate data record on clouds and cloud features, generated by the Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF).

Webinar with Nikos Benas (KNMI), Jan Fokke (KNMI); Steffen Kothe (DWD), Irina Solodovnik (DWD).

19 April 2023 - 12:00 UTC


This advanced to expert level short course will focus on recent changes to data access for Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) products, and introduce new tools and approaches for performing ocean colour match-up analyses. The event will:

Webinar with Ben Loveday, Hayley Evers-King, Juan Ignacio Gossn and Noemi Marsico (EUMETSAT)

29 March 2023 - 11:00 UTC


In the near future, new satellites such as Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and Metop - Second Generation (Metop-SG) will provide advanced capabilities and valuable data for monitoring fires and their impacts. This short course showcases a series of case studies and associated workflows in Jupyter notebooks for fire applications using proxy data from MTG and Metop-SG. Join us to explore the case studies focusing on the August Complex fires in 2020, California USA and the Mediterranean fires in summer 2021! 

with Federico Fierli (EUMETSAT), Sabrina Szeto (MEEO), Carla Barroso (EUMETSAT)

6 July 2022, 13:00 UTC


This short course will focus on the new capabilities of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich altimeter and new data access routes to obtain its products.

Webinar with Ben Loveday, Vinca Rosmorduc, Christine Traeger Chatterjee and Hayley Evers-King (EUMETSAT)

29 September 2022


Satellite data products are relevant tools for monitoring marine weather and sea state conditions, as situ observations over ocean are scarce. Without satellite data, in essence, marine forecasters are left to rely solely on model data. In this course, you will learn through practical examples how to better assess current sea and marine weather conditions, and the accuracy of NWP forecasts, with the aid of scatterometer and altimeter data.

with Carla Barroso and Ivan Smiljanic (EUMETSAT)

8 June 2022, 12:00 UTC


EUMETSAT his often asked for the story behind the MOOC - what is it, why did we do it, how did we put it in place and what challenges did we have and what have we learned. These are the themes fore this session. 

with Neil Fletcher and Mark Higgins (EUMETSAT)

4 May 2022, 13:30 UTC


This is the first in the series of 3 Ocean and Sea Ice SAF (OSI SAF) webinars providing an overview of the OSI SAF products and their applications, explaining how they are processed and validated, what they can be used for, and how they can be used. New means for accessing the data will be highlighted, and some on-line demonstration will be included.

The webinar is aimed at both existing users of the OSI SAF products and those who are not familiar with the products. 

with Stéphane Saux Picart and Olivier Membrive (Meteo France), Steinar Eastwood (Met Norway) and Jean-François Piolle (Ifremer)

25 January 2022, 12:00 UTC


This is the second in the series of 3 Ocean and Sea Ice SAF (OSI SAF) webinars providing an overview of the OSI SAF products and their applications, explaining how they are processed and validated, what they can be used for, and how they can be used. New means for accessing the data will be highlighted, and some on-line demonstration will be included.

The webinar is aimed at both existing users of the OSI SAF products and those who are not familiar with the products. 

with Olivier Membrive (Meteo France), Steinar Eastwood,  Thomas Lavergne and Signe Aaboe (Met Norway), Gorm Dybkjaer, Fabrizio Baordo, Jacob Høyer and Johanne Oelund (DMI)

27 January 2022, 12:00 UTC


This is the third in the series of 3 Ocean and Sea Ice SAF (OSI SAF) webinars providing an overview of the OSI SAF products and their applications, explaining how they are processed and validated, what they can be used for, and how they can be used. New means for accessing the data will be highlighted, and some on-line demonstration will be included.

The webinar is aimed at both existing users of the OSI SAF products and those who are not familiar with the products. 

with Thomas Lavergne (Met Norway), Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) and Olivier Membrive (Meteo France)

1 February 2022, 12:00 UTC




The fire season over the Mediterranean region typically starts in May-June. Meteorological factors play a crucial role in the setting and spreading of wildfires and they are also an important factor in the resulting fire severity. How to interpret the available satellite products and anticipate severe fire occurrence?

with Carla Barroso (EUMETSAT), Federico Fierli (EUMETSAT) and Celia Gouveia (IPMA-LSA SAF).

20 April 2022, 12:00 UTC

Viewing at the storm clouds from above tells us about their interior dynamics. Join us to look at what the satellite images show about the processes happening in the storm clouds. We will reveal the structures seen on the storm tops with currently available satellites and peek into the future view that we will have with the sensors on Meteosat Third Generation (MTG).

with Natasa Strelec Mahovic and Ivan Smiljanic (EUMETSAT)

12 April 2022, 12:00 UTC


This short course will give you an introduction to dust monitoring and forecasting. The course will give you first a high-level introduction to data observations (ground-based and satellite) and model forecasts that can be used to monitor and forecast dust events. The high-level introduction is followed by a practical data discovery part. Focussing on one dust event, the practical part will practically introduce you to satellite-, ground- and model-based data.  For each dataset featured, you will get a practical hands-on introduction on how to access, process, visualize and interpret the dataset. 

with Federico Fierli (EUMETSAT), Sara Basart (BSC), Anu-Maija Sundstrom (FMI), Lucia Mona (CNR-IMAA) and Julia Wagemann (MEEO)


6 April 2022, 12:00 UTC