Subject: Administrative: EUMETSAT Weekly_Operations_Schedule, Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 23/02/12 at 14:43:02 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 09/2012: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 28 February 2012 09:00 - 10:00 UTC Essential EUMETCast Maintenance Interruption on EUMETCast reception for several seconds, multiple times Data delay of up to 10 minutes. No losses are expected, but are possible. A risk of a few short interruptions until 15:00. 01 March 2012 09:00 UTC Essential EUMETSAT maintenance Essential Maintenance interrupting operational internet and FTP servers. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/816148?l=en 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 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 27 February 2012 19:47 UTC orbit 27804 ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 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. 02 March 2012 - 05 March 2012 ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected. 02 March 2012 07:16 UTC orbit 27854 03 March 2012 18:16 UTC orbit 27875 04 March 2012 08:15 UTC orbit 27883 05 March 2012 19:15 UTC orbit 27904 METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT For current information please see: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17 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 THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 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. 01 March 2012 - 10 March 2012 MTSAT 03:00 UTC image data may be unavailable due to Sun-colinearity 04 March 2012 MTSAT 21:00 UTC image data will be unavailable due to ground segment maintenance. 24 February 2012 - 15 April 2012 GOES East Eclipse Season 05:00 UTC and 06:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete. 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 This message was sent from 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 make take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request.