Date/Time Issued: July 12, 2012 1351
UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: July 12, 2012 12:40:36 UTC (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)
Date/Time of Expected End: See table in detail for on and off switch time
Length of Outage:
N/A
Details/Specifics of Change:
Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 12/07/12 at 12:40:36 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 29/2012: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 16 July 2012 07:30 UTC Essential EUMETCast Maintenance EUMETCast African users may experience a short interruption at this time. 20 July 2012 12:00 UTC - 21 July 2012 Essential maintenance Outage to the real-time imagery on the EUMETSAT website is expected. 1. Users? feedback ? What You Say We are planning to introduce a new area on our website called What You Say. It will give users the chance to tell us and other users of our data and products about what they use, how they use it and how they access it. To participate in this feedback please complete our short survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eumetsatwhatyousay 2. New Twitter account We've launched a new Twitter account dedicated to passing on information to, and getting information from, users. The feed, https://twitter.com/@eumetsat_users, is the official EUMETSAT Twitter account for users of our data and those interested in learning more about the data/services/products we provide. METEOSAT RSS Until Further Notice Meteosat-8 is currently operating in Earth Mode due to a problem with the sun sensor data on board. After modifying the image processing system the RSS image quality is currently back to nominal. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 16 July 2012 03:36 UTC orbit 29784 ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 16 July 2012 IASI L2 PPF Update V5.3.1 A short outage of IASI L2 products can be expected. 16 July 2012 SSES - Single Sensor Error Statistics update for IASI L2P core SST A short outage of IASI L2P products can be expected. 18 July 2012 IASI L1 Auxiliary files (scan mirror reflectivity) Update A short outage of all IASI L1 products can be expected. 18 July 2012 13:05:3 UTC Metop-A In-Plane Manoeuvre SEM data will be unavailable between 09:26:23 and 15:13:06 UTC. GOME data and products will be unavailable between 12:35:39 and 14:17 UTC. A temporary degradation of the quality of GRAS Level 1 products is to be expected starting at the time of the manoeuvre. All AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, AVHRR, HIRS, IASI and MHS products may have temporarily degraded quality geo-location data after the time of the manoeuvre. After manoeuvre SEM calibration (100 minutes duration) is foreseen on Wednesday evening. METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 18 July 2012 IASI L1 Auxiliary files (scan mirror reflectivity) Update A short outage of all EARS IASI L1 products can be expected. 18 July 2012 13:05:3 UTC Metop-A In-Plane Manoeuvre SEM data will be unavailable between 09:26:23 and 15:13:06 UTC. GOME data and products will be unavailable between 12:35:39 and 14:17 UTC. A temporary degradation of the quality of GRAS Level 1 products is to be expected starting at the time of the manoeuvre. All AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, AVHRR, HIRS, IASI and MHS products may have temporarily degraded quality geo-location data after the time of the manoeuvre. After manoeuvre SEM calibration (100 minutes duration) is foreseen on Wednesday evening. METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT For current information please see: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17 JASON-2 18 July 2012 Update of the OGDR-BUFR encoding to user version 16 of the WMO BUFR tables. They can be found on the WMO web site http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WMOC FUTURE EVENTS THIRD-PARTY DATA 31 July 2012 OSFAC Land Application Products available on EUMETCast. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNe JASON-2 31 July 2012 Jason-2 processor update to OGDR-D standard. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNe 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
Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880