Subject: Administrative, Weekly_Operations_Schedule_20090703074854.txt

Weekly Operations Schedule

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Planned activities for week 28/2009:

GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION
08 July 2009 09:00-10:00 UTC
Essential Ground Segment Maintenance
There will be a delay of 10-20 minutes of the following products and
services:
There is also a risk of interruption of the following products and
services.
GOES, MTSAT and CMA Data
OSI-SAF, JASON and EARS
DCPs and GTS Bulletins
Archive and Retrieval Service

METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
06 July 2009 07:50-08:30
Essential Maintenance
During this period there is a low risk of degraded N19 ATOVS L1
products.

06 July 2009 09:30-10:00
Essential Maintenance
During this period there is a low risk of degraded M02 ATOVS L2
products.

07 July 2009
NOAA-19 data will replace NOAA-18 data in the regional EARS-AVHRR
service.

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

SAF PRODUCTS
06 July 2009
The GRAS SAF Version 3.0, for the software deliverable 'ROPP' will be
available.

The principle changes from the previous release, v2.0, is to provide
functionality to process excess phase and amplitude time series to
compute L1 and L2 channel
bending angle profiles by geometric optics and wave optics
methods. This
complements existing functionality to compute ionospheric corrected
bending angle and
refractivity profiles from L1 and L2 channel bending angle data.
Details of all the changes are available together with the updated
software package on the ROPP download website at
http://garf.grassaf.org/software.php
We recommend that users update their applications to use this latest
ROPP distribution.

FUTURE EVENTS
15 July 2009 09:00 UTC
Following the WMO recommendation (Note 3 to the Specification of Octet
Contents in the Manual on Codes) for the introduction of BUFR
Edition 4,
EUMETSAT plans to
introduce the BUFR edition 4 for the encoding of the Meteosat-8 and
Meteosat-9 BUFR products.
The BUFR Edition 4 parameter in the header shall be updated. The
meteorological products themselves shall not be impacted by this
change.
Example data sets shall be made available on the EUMETSAT web pages
by 7
July 2009.


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