Subject: Administrative; Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 11/04/13 at 13:29:41 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 16/2013: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 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 16 April 2013 Change in the computation of the height assignment of the AMV (Atmospheric Motion Vector) product. The inversion correction for low-level AMVs will be re-introduced in the AMV algorithm. Only low-level winds are impacted. They will appear slightly lower in the atmosphere. The product format will remain unchanged. METEOSAT RSS 16 April 2013 09:00 UTC - 18 April 2013 09:00 UTC Parallel Meteosat-8 RSS interruption Parallel Rapid Scanning Service from Meteosat-8 will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. Meteosat-9 RSS will still continue during that timeframe. 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 12 April 2013 - 15 April 2013 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global winds products can be expected. 12 April 2013 08:16 UTC orbit 33622 13 April 2013 18:17 UTC orbit 33643 14 April 2013 08:15 UTC orbit 33651 15 April 2013 19:15 UTC orbit 33672 20 April 2013 05:12 - 09:12 UTC IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 12 April 2013 - 15 April 2013 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT regional winds products can be expected. 12 April 2013 08:16 UTC orbit 33622 13 April 2013 18:17 UTC orbit 33643 14 April 2013 08:15 UTC orbit 33651 15 April 2013 19:15 UTC orbit 33672 METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 16 April 2013 - 12:34:58 Metop-A In-plane manoeuvre SEM and GOME data will be unavailable. 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. METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT For current information please see: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17 S-NPP PROVISIONAL DATA 16 April 2013 12:30 UTC - 18:30 UTC NOAA NDE Critical Infrastructure Protection testing No S-NPP data will be available. SAF PRODUCTS 18 April 2013 SM-DAS-2 product (Profile Index in the roots region by scatterometer data assimilation) from H-SAF available on EUMETCast. For full details, please see: [http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/831011?l=en] THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 08 April 2013 - 19 April 2013 MTSAT Eclipse 15:00 UTC image data may be unavailable 12 April 2013 - 16 April 2013 GOES 15 Eclipse 09:00 UTC image data may be unavailable FUTURE EVENTS METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 23 April 2013 Metop-B In-plane manoeuvre SEM and GOME data will be unavailable. 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. Exact outage times to be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. 24 April 2013 12:00 UTC Metop-B becomes operational. The enhanced data timeliness currently available for Metop-A, through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA), will stop for Metop-A and will be transferred to Metop-B. Details on user registration for Metop-B services will be provided in due course. METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 24 April 2013 Start of new EARS-NWC service on EUMETCast For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/831587?l=en THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 01 May 2013 Stop of McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) from CSIR. For full details, please see http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/830206?l=en 06 May 2013 Stop of the PHENOLOGY products from VITO. For full details, please see http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/830204?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