Subject: EUMETSAT Weekly_Operations_Schedule_20130508161031.txt Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 08/05/13 at 16:10:31 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 20/2013: 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 15 May 2013 Enhancement of the interchannel co-registration for Meteosat-10 The image data processing will be tuned to generally improve the interchannel co-registration. METEOSAT IODC 14 May 2013 Cloud Mask and Cloud Analysis products available on EUMETCast For full details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/832345?l=en 14 May 2013 08:00 - 10:00 UTC Essential ground segment maintenance During this maintenance period the meteorological products from Meteosat-7 will not be available. This will be followed by a high risk period of 4 hours. 15 May 2013 - 00:58 UTC Meteosat-7 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre Users may observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours following the manoeuvre. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 15 May 2013 - 30 May 2013 ***DATES UPDATED*** Improvement of the timeliness of EPS operational services. For full details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/831836?l=en 11-27 May 2013 Metop-B IASI External Calibration, in support to an airborne campaign. Risk of outage to IASI GDS Level 1C of 30 minutes every day during this period. For full details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/832852?l=en 15 May 2013 07:00 - 15:00 UTC 16 May 2013 07:00 - 15:00 UTC Essential ground segment maintenance During this maintenance period there is a risk of short interruption or delay of all METOP and NOAA products. 16 May 2013 New ASCAT Level 1 products become operational For full details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/832545?l=en 19 May 2013 05:12 - 09:12 UTC Metop-A - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 15 May 2013 Start of new EARS-ATMS and EARS-CrIS services on EUMETCast. For full details, please see the related product news:http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/832338?l=en as well as the web pages describing both services in more detail: ATMS:http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Satellites/GroundNetwork/EARSSystem/SP_201305894856911?l=en CrIS:http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Satellites/GroundNetwork/EARSSystem/SP_201305895754935?l=en METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT For current information please see:http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17 16 May 2013 08:37 - 13:38 UTC Metop-A HRPT modulation change. During this maintenance period there is a risk of HRPT interruption. SAF PRODUCTS 13 May 2013 06:00 - 07:00 UTC O3MSAF maintenance period. During this maintenance period there will be a delay to production and distribution of the Near Real Time Ozone Profiles (NOP) product in both BUFR and HDF5 formats on EUMETCast. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 11 May 2013 Change to TAMSAT Rainfall Anomaly products distributed on EUMETCast The time period for calculation of the rainfall anomalies will be changed: anomalies have so far been calculated against a 10-year average from 2000 to 2009 inclusive; from the first dekad of May 2013 anomalies will be calculated against a 30-year average from 1983 to 2012. JASON-2 16 May 2013 01:14 UTC Jason-2 manoeuvre A temporary degradation of the quality of all products is to be expected starting at the time of the manoeuvre. FUTURE EVENTS METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 13 June 2013 The update of Metop-A GOME-2 level-1 data with new instrument calibration key-data has been shifted from the originally planned 7 May 2013 to 13 June 2013. The update is in preparation for the forthcoming tandem operation phase of both instruments on Metop-A and Metop-B. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS May 2013 (exact date to be confirmed in due course) Oceansat-2 - Update of processing software to version 1.4: - Change in the correction factor for brightness temperature - Change in rain water flagging algorithm based on noise Test files are available at:ftp://ftp.eumetsat.int/pub/EUM/out/OPS/User/Oceansat-2_Test_Data_April_2013/ 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