Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 29/03/12 at 13:17:18 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 14/2012: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 02 April 2012 08:00 - 12:00 UTC Essential EUMETCast Maintenance At 08:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC short interruptions and delay of data reception up to 5 min. No losses expected. 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 RSS 02 April 2012 09:00 UTC - 05 April 2012 09:00 UTC Monthly RSS interruption Rapid Scanning Service will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. Full Earth Images, if any, will not be disseminated. Upon resuming the Rapid Scanning Service, most meteorological products may take up to 30 minutes to resume. Note, the Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimate (MPE) may take up to 18 hours to fully resume. Please note that the Rapid Scanning Service interruption has been extended by one day. This is reflected in the dates and times provided above. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 02 April 2012 - 03 April 2012 ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected. 02 April 2012 08:16 UTC orbit 28295 03 April 2012 19:16 UTC orbit 28316 08 April 2012 05:10 - 09:10 UTC IASI External Calibration Outage to IASI GDS Level 1C atmospheric temperature and water vapour, cloud parameters, ozone and trace gases, and emissivity 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 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 GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 11 April 2012 All EUMETCast Daily Logs will be changed to ensure compatibility with the file naming change of BUFR-formatted EPS global products to the WMO file format. The record format shall change from CSV (comma-separated values) to DSV (delimiter-separated values) with ?|? selected as the delimiter. For full details, please see the updated EUMETCast Daily Log User Guide: ops@eumetsat.int www.eumetsat.int