Subject: Administrative: Eumetsat Weekly_Operations_Schedule - Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 09/01/14 at 16:04:10 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 03/2014: 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/TechnicalBulletins/EUMETCast/DAT_2082113.html 14 January 2014 09:00 UTC Migration of EUMETSAT?s RMDCN interface at Darmstadt to RMDCN-NG. Some disruptions are expected to occur during the changeover. METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE 14 January 2014 09:00 UTC - 21 January 2014 09:00 UTC Meteosat-10 SEVIRI decontamination During this period, Meteosat-9 image data (rectified to 0 deg) and meteorological products will replace the Meteosat-10 service. An outage of up to two repeat cycles is to be expected when switching to and from Meteosat-9. For more details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2087886.html METEOSAT RSS 14 January 2014 09:00 UTC - 13 February 2014 09:00 UTC Meteosat-9 RSS annual 1-month interruption. Meteosat-9 will take over Meteosat 0-degree service during the Meteosat-10 decontamination period (14 to 21 January 2014). Please see above. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 13 January 2014 14:20 UTC orbit 6861 Metop-B - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 16 January 2014 Addition of Metop-B EARS-NWC products and SNPP EARS-ATMS and EARS-CrIS products from the Kangerlussuaq station. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 16 January 2014 Electro-L N1 Addition of data from channel 4 (IR 3.8) and channel 10 (IR 11.9) to the Electro-L N1 data distribution on EUMETCast. Test data are available at: ftp://ftp.eumetsat.int/pub/EUM/out/OPS/User/Electro-L_N1_Test_Data_Dec2013/ 16 January 2014 Removal of FY-2D and FY-2E data from EUMETCast-Americas. The data will be moved from EUMETSAT Data Channel 11 to EUMETSAT Data Channel 12 (PID: 301, Multicast Address: 224.223.222.35) 16 January 2014 New Copernicus Global Land products, covering South-America, available on EUMETCast: - Directional Albedo (version 1), ALDH - Hemispherical Albedo (version 1), ALBH - Top-of-Canopy Reflectances (version 1), TOC-R - Leaf Area Index (version 1), LAI - Fraction of Green Vegetation Cover (version 1), FCover - Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (version 1), FAPAR For full details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2088076.html JASON-2 15 January 2014 11:00-16:00 UTC Due to major maintenance activities on the ground segment, there is a risk that the Jason-2 OGDRs may be delayed during the indicated time period. 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