Subject: Administrative: EUMETSAT Weekly Operations Schedule, Issued: Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 25/06/13 at 14:33:35 Seq Nr: 4 Planned activities for week 26/2013: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 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 26 June 2013 EUMETSAT will be re-launching its website. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/CorporateNews/834021 25 June 2013 Due to a change in the numerical weather prediction model from ECMWF, there is a 24-hour risk of outage or degraded quality (starting at 23:00 UTC) to all meteorological products from the Meteosat 0 Degree Service, Rapid Scan Service and IODC service, EPS level-2 products from IASI, AHVRR Polar Winds, Jason and EARS-NWC products. The generation and dissemination of ATOVS sounding products derived from Metop and NOAA-19 satellites will be suspended from 12:00 UTC until further notice. For more details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/834048?l=en METEOSAT RSS 25 June 2013 09:00 UTC - 27 June 2013 09:00 UTC Monthly RSS interruption Meteosat-9 Rapid Scanning Service will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. Meteosat-8 will take over the Rapid Scanning Service during this timeframe. METEOSAT IODC 26 June 2013 - 00:28 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 25 June 2013 Update of the Metop-B ASCAT level 1 calibration to reflect the results of the first three-transponders calibration campaign. 25 June 2013 08:00 - 12:00 UTC Metop-A GRAS instrument maintenance No GRAS data will be available during this maintenance period. ***UPDATE*** Postponed to a later date The distribution on EUMETCast of ATOVS Level 2 products from Metop-B, originally planned for 26 June 2013, is now postponed due to issues of incompatibility with the new ECMWF forecast model (see above entry under GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION) 26 June 2013 - 29 June 2013 Metop-B - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global winds products can be expected. 26 June 2013 07:16 UTC orbit 4001 27 June 2013 18:17 UTC orbit 4022 28 June 2013 08:15 UTC orbit 4030 29 June 2013 19:15 UTC orbit 4051 METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 26 June 2013 - 29 June 2013 Metop-B - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT regional winds products can be expected. 26 June 2013 07:16 UTC orbit 4001 27 June 2013 18:17 UTC orbit 4022 28 June 2013 08:15 UTC orbit 4030 29 June 2013 19:15 UTC orbit 4051 METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 26 June 2013 13:40 34691 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 JASON-2 25 June 2013 Update of the OSTM/Jason-2 processing chain, in order to adapt to the ECMWF model vertical resolution increase on 25 June. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/833858?l=en FUTURE EVENTS METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE 01 July 2013 08:00 UTC - 09 July 2013 09:15 UTC Meteosat-10 SEVIRI decontamination During this timeframe, Meteosat-8 image data and meteorological products will be provided in place of those from Meteosat-10. The data will be rectified to 0 degree. An outage of 15 minutes is to be expected when switching to and from Meteosat-8. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/833724?l=en METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 17 July 2013 IASI Level 2 Sounding Products available on EUMETCast Africa and moving from channel EPS-11 to EPS-Africa Users in the Ku-band footprint already receiving these products should ensure they update their station setup to be able to continue receiving the products. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/833995?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 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.