Remote sensing data

general
There is a useful tool from the ESA website to search for available images (does ENVISAT and others):

http://eoli.esa.int/

meteosat
The channels of SEVERI on board meteosat-8 (spectral band / μm)

(from http://las.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/eProceedings/vol05_1/05_1_de-ruyter1.pdf)

statistical
singular vector decomposition

Bretherton CS, Smith C, Wallace JM. 1992. An intercomparison of methods for finding coupled patterns in climate data. Journal of Wilks DS. 1995. Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences. Climate 5: 541–560