Subject: Administrative: EUMETSAT Weekly Operations Schedule, Issued: Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 11/07/13 at 13:25:20 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 29/2013: 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/website/home/DataNewsletter/EUMETCast/DAT_2043191.html 18 July 2013 08:00 UTC New EO Portal release, with a new look for the service subscription pages. More details to come. The release will require a downtime period: the EO Portal and log-in to the Data Centre Online Ordering Tool via the EO Portal will be unavailable from 08:00 UTC for up to 4 hours. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 15 July 2013 GOME-2 instruments on Metop-A and Metop-B: Start of GOME-2 tandem operations phase. 1) GOME-2 on Metop-A: Switch of nominal swath width to 960 km. This will reduce the ground pixel sizes for measurements at nominal integration times of 0.1875 to 40 by 40 km. Polarisation device measurements (PMD) ground pixel sizes will be reduced to 40 by 5 km. 2) GOME-2 on Metop-A: The monthly narrow swath scanning period will be replaced with one day of scanning using a 320 km swath. 3) GOME-2 on Metop-B: Nominal scanning will be unaffected (1920 km swath). 4) GOME-2 on Metop-B: The monthly narrow scanning sequence will be removed from the 29 days repeat cycle. For details on the 29 days on-board timeline sequence for both instruments, please refer to: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/epsreports/html/tl.php?sat=M01 http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/epsreports/html/tl.php?sat=M02 15 July 2013 05:12 - 09:12 UTC Metop-A - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. 15 July 2013 04:44 UTC orbit 34956 Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 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/website/home/News/DAT_2055486.html 18 July 2013 ATOVS Level 2 products from Metop-B available on EUMETCast For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2047683.html METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT For current information please see: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17 SAF Products 15 July 2013 The following O3M SAF products from Metop-B will be available on EUMETCast: - NRT Absorbing Aerosol Index (NAR) - Near Real Time Ozone Profiles (NOP) - Near Real Time Total Column (NTO) For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2055950.html 18 July 2013 New release of Precipitation rate at ground by MW conical scanners (PR-OBS-1) and Precipitation rate at ground by MW cross-track scanners (PR-OBS-2) from H SAF. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2056122.html FUTURE EVENTS METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 25 July 2013 ASCAT L1 Sigma0 at Full Sensor Resolution product available on EUMETCast. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2056116.html THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 23 July 2013 Early dissemination of SARAL/AltiKa data on EUMETCast For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2056160.html SAF Products 25 July 2013 O3M SAF Near Real Time Ozone Profiles and Near Real Time Total Column BUFR products available on EUMETCast Africa and moving from channel SAF-Europe to SAF-Africa. Users in the Ku-band footprint already receiving these products should ensure they update their station setup to be able to continue receiving them. For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2056105.html 06 August 2013 07:10 UTC - 06 August 2013 07:30 UTC EUMETCast Americas Satellite replacement: Service will be moved from NSS806 to SES6 at the same location. All downlink parameters are unchanged. During this period a service outage of 2 minutes is expected. Users are recommended to restart their reception stations after this period in case of problems. 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