Subject: Administrative: METEOSAT Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 05/06/13 at 12:34:15 Seq Nr: 2 Planned activities for week 23/2013: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION The EUMETCast Europe service will be upgraded from DVB-S to the DVB-S2 standard in August 2014. For detailed information, please see http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/DataAccess/EUMETCast/SP_2013041693924407?l=en 04 June 2013 01:00 - 03:00 UTC 06 June 2013 01:00 - 03:00 UTC EUMETCast ground station maintenance. During this maintenance periods there is a risk of interruption to the EUMETCast service. METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE 4 June 2013 Change in dissemination time of the Divergence Product (DIV) The product will be disseminated five minutes earlier. 06 June 2013 09:00 - 10:00 UTC Due to essential ground segment maintenance there will be a risk of short losses to the DCP service during this time. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 27 May 2013 to 13 June 2013 Improvement of the timeliness of EPS operational services. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/831836?l=en 03 June 2013 07:00 - 15:00 UTC 04 June 2013 07:00 - 15:00 UTC 05 June 2013 07:00 - 15:00 UTC Essential ground segment maintenance During this maintenance period there is a risk of short interruption or delay of all METOP and NOAA products. 03 June 2013 19:42 UTC orbit 3682 Metop-B - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 05 June 2013 05:13 - 09:12 UTC Metop-B - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C products will not be available. 09 June 2013 - 12 June 2013 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global winds products can be expected. 09 June 2013 07:16 UTC orbit 34446 10 June 2013 18:17 UTC orbit 34467 11 June 2013 08:15 UTC orbit 34475 12 June 2013 19:15 UTC orbit 34496 METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 09 June 2013 - 12 June 2013 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT regional winds products can be expected. 09 June 2013 07:16 UTC orbit 34446 10 June 2013 18:17 UTC orbit 34467 11 June 2013 08:15 UTC orbit 34475 12 June 2013 19:15 UTC orbit 34496 METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT For current information please see: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17 THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS Until 6 June 2013 16:00 UTC ***UPDATE*** GOES-East Due to a spacecraft anomaly, the hourly GOES-13 data distributed on EUMETCast is being replaced by 3-hourly GOES-12 data. FUTURE EVENTS METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 11 June 2013 AVHRR Polar Winds from Metop-B available on EUMETCast For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/833544?l=en 13 June 2013 The update of Metop-A GOME-2 level-1 data with new instrument calibration key-data has been shifted from the originally planned 7 May 2013 to 13 June 2013. The update is in preparation for the forthcoming tandem operation phase of both instruments on Metop-A and Metop-B. 18 June 2013 IASI Level 2 products from Metop-B available on EUMETCast For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/833421?l=en METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 26 June 2013 Metop-A In-plane manoeuvre SEM and GOME data will be unavailable. A temporary degradation of the quality of GRAS Level 1 products is to be expected starting at the time of the manoeuvre. All AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, AVHRR, HIRS, IASI and MHS products may have temporarily degraded quality geo-location data after the time of the manoeuvre. Exact outage times to be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. SAF PRODUCTS 11 June 2013 NRT Absorbing Aerosol Index from the O3M SAF available on EUMETCast For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/833423?l=en INFORMATION: For further information, please contact the EUMETSAT User Services Helpdesk Tel: +49 6151 807 366 Fax: +49 6151 807 379 Email: ops@eumetsat.int www.eumetsat.int