Subject: Administrative: Weekly_Operations_Schedule_20130225125957.txt Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 25/02/13 at 12:59:57 Seq Nr: 2 Planned activities for week 09/2013: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 25 February 2013 - 06 March 2013 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/828756?l=en Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Winter/Spring 2013 available on EUMETSAT Website: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/ServiceStatus/index.htm?l=en (See Section "Operational Schedules") METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE 28 February 2013 - 09 March 2013 Sun Co-linearity Repeat cycles 12:00 and 12:15 UTC may be interrupted or not available. METEOSAT RSS 31 January 2013 07:30 UTC - 5 March 2013 09:00 UTC Meteosat-8 RSS yearly 1-month interruption. METEOSAT IODC 01 February 2013 - 27 March 2013 Meteosat-7 Spring 2013 eclipse season Slots 38 to 43 may not be available. 26 February 2013 - 16:28 UTC Meteosat-7 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre Users may observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours following the manoeuvre. 28 February 2013 Meteorological products from Meteosat First Generation available on EUMETCast. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/829111?l=en METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE New ASCAT Level 1 products currently available on EUMETCast, in parallel to the operational ASCAT Level 1 products. Users wishing to receive the parallel data stream should register with the User Service Helpdesk (ops@eumetsat.int). For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/829109?l=en 15 February 2013 - 4 March 2013 Metop-B - GRAS Parameters Optimisation Outage of GRAS GDS Level 1 products during this period. 25 February 2013 02:59 - 03:06 UTC orbit 32980 Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 27 February 2013 18:55 - 19:45 orbit 33004 Metop-A - GOME2 monthly measurements of GOME-2 polarisation (PMD) data in raw readout mode (PMDRAW). Near real-time products from O3M SAF (L2 NTO) will be affected (see SAF PRODUCTS below). METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT For current information please see: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17 SAF PRODUCTS 27 February 2013 18:55 - 19:45 UTC orbit 33004 Metop-A - GOME2 operations (see above), O3M SAF Near Real Time Total Column products (Total Column Ozone, the Total Column NO2, and the Tropospheric NO2) will be unavailable. THIRD PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS *** updated *** 24 February 2013 - 27 February 2013 GOES West Eclipse Season 09:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete. 28 February 2013 01 March 2013 GOES East Thruster Flush Manoeuvre 19:00 UTC image data may be unavailable. 01 March 2013 - 10 March 2013 MTSAT Sun-colinearity 03:00 UTC image data may be unavailable FUTURE EVENTS METEOSAT RSS 5 March 2013 Start of RSS parallel dissemination on EUMETCast of SEVIRI image data from Meteosat-9. Details to follow. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 2 March 2013 - 5 March 2013 Metop-B - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected. 2 March 2013 07:16 UTC orbit 2353 3 March 2013 18:17 UTC orbit 2374 4 March 2013 08:15 UTC orbit 2382 5 March 2013 19:15 UTC orbit 2403 7 March 2013 - 13 March 2013 Metop-A - GOME-2 reduced swath mode configuration (960km) This will not affect level 1 product quality but will reduce the spatial coverage for Metop-A GOME-2 data during this period. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 7 March 2013 Southern Hemisphere Low Resolution Sea Ice Drift product from OSI-SAF available on EUMETCast. For full details, please see http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/829215?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 Contact Information for Further Information:ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880 Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A This message was sent by 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 may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request.