Subject: EUMETSAT Weekly_Operations_Schedule_20130521143024.txt Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 21/05/13 at 14:30:24 Seq Nr: 3 Planned activities for week 21/2013: 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") The EUMETCast Europe service will be upgraded from DVB-S to the DVB-S2 standard in August 2014. For detailed information, please see http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/DataAccess/EUMETCast/SP_2013041693924407?l=en METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE 22 May 2012 02:13 UTC Meteosat-10 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre Users may experience degraded image quality for up to 3 hours following the manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded meteorological product quality for up to 3 hours following the manoeuvre. 23 May 2013 08:00 - 15:00 UTC Essential ground segment maintenance. During this maintenance period there is a risk of a short interruption to the mission data. METEOSAT RSS 22 May 2013 Rapid Scan Active Fire Monitoring Product available on EUMETCast For more details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/833150?l=en 22 May 2013 09:00 - 13:00 UTC Essential ground segment maintenance. During this maintenance period there is a risk of interruption to the Rapid Scan Service. METEOSAT IODC (***** UPDATE ****) 21 May 2013 09:28 UTC Infrared Channel gain change from 12 to 11. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 11 May 2013 -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 20 May 2013 - 07:40 UTC orbit 34162 Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 23 May 2013 07:00 - 15:00 UTC 24 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. 25 May 2013 19:14 UTC orbit 34240 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). 27 May 2013 to 13 June 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 28 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 METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT For current information please see: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17 SAF PRODUCTS 25 May 2013 19:14 UTC orbit 34240 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. FUTURE EVENTS METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE 4 June 2013 Change in dissemination time of the Divergence Product (DIV) The product will be disseminated five minutes earlier. METEOSAT RSS 27 May 2013 09:00 UTC - 29 May 2013 09:00 UTC Monthly RSS interruption Meteosat-9 Rapid Scanning Service will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning. As a test in view of future operational implementation, Meteosat-8 RSS SEVIRI image data will be provided in place of the Meteosat-9 RSS image data during this timeframe (no meteorological products from Meteosat-8 will be disseminated). An outage of 15 minutes (or slightly more) can be expected when switching to and from Meteosat-8. 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 28 May 2013 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: 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