Subject: Administrative, Weekly_Operations_Schedule_20090618130859.txt

Weekly Operations Schedule

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Planned activities for week 26/2009:

GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION
24 June 2009 08:00-09:00 UTC
Planned failovers of EUMETCast turnaround equipment.
Short interruptions possible for EUMETCast C-band Africa users.

METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE
24 June 2009 08:00-11:00 UTC
Maintenance of the MSG Ground Segment
Risk of interruptions on the following services: Met-9 SEVIRI data,
Met-9 Meteorological Products, LRIT Direct Dissemination, FSD products,
MDD, DCPs and GTS
Bulletins.

METEOSAT IODC
22 June 2009
Meteosat-7 Lunar Eclipse
Slots 39-42 will not be available.

24 June 2009 00:58 UTC
Meteosat-7 EW Manoeuvre
Users may observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours after the
manoeuvre.

METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
22 June 2009 03:08
ASCAT Gain compression.
A short interuption will occur.

22 June 2009 08:15 orbit 13875
ASCAT monthly calibration.
Short interruptions will occur.

28 June 2009 05:13-09:11
IASI External Calibration.
Earth views will not be available during this period.

METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT
For current information please see:
http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17

THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
23 June 2009
GOES12_75W Lunar Eclipse
There will be no image at 03:00 UTC.

23 June 2009
Dissemination of MODIS Chlorophyll Alpha
The MODIS Chlorophyll Alpha product is generated once per day with an
average file size of 3.5 MB and is available in HDF.
EUMETCast requirements:
"EUMETSAT Data Channel 8" (PID 300 Ku-band and C-band Africa, PID 1922
C-band Americas, multicast address 224.223.222.31).
The MODIS Chlorophyll Alpha filenames are of the type
"A2009117.L3m_DAY_CHLO_4.bz2".

Further details on the product are provided on the MODIS OceanColor Web
site, see: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/

All users with current access to the existing MODIS L2 products (Fire &
DB Polar Winds) will be automatically activated to receive this
product.
  All other users are
requested to register via the User Service Helpdesk ops@eumetsat.int

FUTURE EVENTS
30 June 2009
NOAA-19 ATOVS level 2 sounding products generated by EUMETSAT become
operational.
 From this date onwards these products will be available in near
real-time via EUMETCast-Europe and the GTS-RMDCN, and in offline mode
via the EUMETSAT Archive.  Users
who already receive the Metop-A ATOVS level 2 sounding products via
EUMETCast will have their accounts automatically activated to receive
the corresponding NOAA-19
products.  All other EUMETCast users wishing to receive the full suite
of ATOVS products are requested to register via the EUMETSAT User
Helpdesk.
EUMETCast configuration details are as follows:
Channel: EPS-14
PID: 510
Multicast Address: 224.223.222.243


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