Subject: Administrative:  Eumetsat
Weekly Operations Schedule

Issued on 31/01/14 at 10:56:25

Seq Nr: 2

Planned activities for week 06/2014:


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

The Operational Service Status Indicator (OSSI) on EUMETSAT website now
includes Third Party Data Services (GOES-EAST, GOES-WEST and MTSAT).


METEOSAT RSS
14 January 2014  09:00 UTC - 13 February 2014  09:00 UTC
Meteosat-9 RSS annual 1-month interruption.


METEOSAT IODC
30 January 2014 - 27 March 2014
Meteosat-7 Spring 2014 eclipse season
Slots 37 to 43 may not be available.

31 January 2014 - 11 February 2014
Meteosat-7 Sun Co-linearity
Slot 16 and 17 may be interrupted or unavailable.


METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
04 February 2014 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
04 February 2014
Addition of Metop-B products from the Muscat station in EARS-ATOVS
and EARS-ASCAT services.

05 February 2014 13:29 UTC orbit 37873
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.


THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
31 January - 3 February 2014	(*** UPDATE ***)
OSCAT products from ISRO will be unavailable due to a switch-off of
the SCAT instrument onboard Oceansat-2

06 February 2014
Update to SARAL/AltiKa processing software.
For full details, please
see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2091965.html


FUTURE EVENTS
METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
18 February 2014 - 20 February 2014
Metop-A - IASI External Calibration
IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available.

25 February 2014
Update to Metop-A ASCAT calibration to reflect the calibration model
used in the reprocessing of the Metop-A ASCAT Level 1 data.
For full details, please
see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2093341.html


METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL & REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
19 February 2014
Metop-B 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.
Exact outage times to be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.




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