Subject: ESPC Notification (Operations Weekly Schedule)

Weekly Operations Schedule

Issued on 16/02/12 at 13:55:33

Seq Nr: 1

Planned activities for week 08/2012:

GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION
21 February 2012  09:00 - 10:00 UTC
Essential EUMETCast Maintenance
Interruption of ftp connection to uplink server for few seconds,
multiple times.
Interruption on EUMETCast reception for several seconds, multiple times
Data delay up to 10 minutes. No losses expected, but possible. High
risk
period for the rest of the day.

22 February 2012 - 05 March 2012
Sun interference may affect the EUMETCast broadcast satellites.
Users might experience lower signal margin or outages on EUMETCast.
The exact times and durations of the signal degradation or outages
depend on the reception location.
For full details, please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/815634?l=en

Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Winter/Spring 2012 available on
EUMETSAT Website:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/ServiceStatus/index.htm?l=en
(See Section "Operational Schedules")

METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE
21 February 2012	06:43 UTC
Meteosat-9 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre
Users may experience degraded image quality  for up to 3 hours
following
the manoeuvre.
Users may experience degraded meteorological product quality  for up to
3 hours following the manoeuvre.

25 February 2012 - 05 March 2012
Sun Co-linearity
Repeat cycles 12:00 and 12:15 UTC may be interrupted or not available.

METEOSAT RSS
22 February 2012 - 03 March 2012
Sun Co-linearity
Repeat cycles 11:30 to 11:45 UTC may be interrupted or not available.

METEOSAT IODC
04 February 2012 - 27 March 2012
Meteosat-7 Spring 2012 eclipse season
Slots 38 to 43 may not be available.

METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
22 February 2012
Release of IASI L1 processor version 6.2
Risk of product outages for all IASI products

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

THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
21 February 2012  11:00 UTC
GOES East Manoeuvre
12:00 and 13:00 UTC image data may be unavailable.

23 February 2012
New AMESD-SADC products available on EUMETCast.
For full details, please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/815507?l=en

24 February 2012  23:00 UTC - 25 February 2012	01:00 UTC
26 February 2012  00:30 UTC - 02:00 UTC
Essential ground segment maintenance affecting GOES East, GOES West and
MTSAT
No losses expected, but image data will be delayed.

10 February 2012 - 27 April 2012
GOES West Eclipse Season
08:00 UTC and 09:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.

14 February 2012 - 26 April 2012
MTSAT Eclipse Season
14:00 UTC and 15:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.

24 February 2012 - 15 April 2012
GOES East Eclipse Season
05:00 UTC and 06:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.

FUTURE EVENTS
METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
28 February 2012
Release of IASI L2 processor version 5.3
A chi square method for retrieval of cloud properties has been
introduced to complement the existing CO2-slicing method.
This leads to an increase of the yield of cloud parameters from about
48% to 70%. Additionally, the SSES values for the IASI SST L2PCore
product will be updated.

SAF PRODUCTS
01 March 2012
Removal of OSI SAF MAP and LML products from EUMETCast
For full details, please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/815505?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