Subject: Administrative: Retirement of NOAA-18 ATOVS Sounding This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_+vQOnX2Bg4OZLau+gvkH5g) Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Topic:* Termination of NOAA-18 ATOVS Sounding Products on December 15, 2014 *Date/Time Issued: * November 25, 2014 1900 UTC *Product(s) or Data Impacted:* NESDIS ATOVS Sounding Products *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* December 15, 2014 1700 UTC *Date/Time of Expected End:* N/A *Length of Outage:* N/A *Details/Specifics of Change:* NOAA-18 ATOVS Sounding Products will be terminated and the NOAA-18 ATOVS capability will be replaced with a MetOp capabilities (i.e., MetOp-A and MetOp-B ATOVS capability) in order to optimize resources to accommodate the MetOp- capabilities. A decision has been made by NESDIS to terminate the NOAA-18 ATOVS sounding products generation and dissemination on December 15, 2014. Please contact ESPC Operations if you require more information please contact the ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880. This message was sent by ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov. You have been sent this and other notifications because you have opted in to receive it. If for any reason, you wish to unsubscribe, please contact ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880. Please note: it may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request. --Boundary_(ID_+vQOnX2Bg4OZLau+gvkH5g) Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Topic: Termination of NOAA-18 ATOVS Sounding Products on December 15, 2014

Date/Time Issued: November 25, 2014 1900 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: NESDIS ATOVS Sounding Products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 15, 2014 1700 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: N/A

Length of Outage: N/A

Details/Specifics of Change: NOAA-18 ATOVS Sounding Products will be terminated and the NOAA-18 ATOVS capability will be replaced with a MetOp capabilities (i.e., MetOp-A and MetOp-B ATOVS capability) in order to optimize resources to accommodate the MetOp- capabilities. A decision has been made by NESDIS to terminate the NOAA-18 ATOVS sounding products generation and dissemination on December 15, 2014. Please contact ESPC Operations if you require more information please contact the ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880.

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