Subject: Administrative:  Eumetsat
Weekly Operations Schedule

Issued on 06/02/14 at 15:30:08

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Planned activities for week 07/2014:

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).

11 February 2014 15:00 - 15:30 UTC
Risk of short interruption to the EUMETCast-Americas service during
this period, due to maintenance work at the uplink station.


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

13 February 2014 09:00 UTC
Meteosat-9 RSS image data dissemination will resume.
Dissemination of meteorological products is not expected to start
before 14 February 2014.


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
10 February 2014
18:55 - 19:55 UTC (Metop-A)
19:45 - 21:26 UTC (Metop-B)
GOME-2 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).

10 February 2014  14:41 UTC orbit 7259
Metop-B - ASCAT Gain Compression
A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected.


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


SAF PRODUCTS
10 February 2014  18:55 - 19:55 UTC (Metop-A)
		   19:45 - 21:26 UTC (Metop-B)
GOME-2 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
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