Subject: Administrative: Termination of the MiRS F16 SSMIS Products
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*Topic: *Termination of the MiRS F16 SSMIS Products *
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*Date/Time Issued**:*February 24, 2014 1610 UTC*
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*Product(s) or Data Impacted:*Microwave Integration Retrieval System
(MiRS) F16 SSMIS products, including: Rain Rate, Total Precipitable
Water, Cloud Liquid Water over ocean, Ice Water Path, Snow Cover, Sea
Ice Concentration, Snow Water Equivalent, Land Surface Temperature,
Surface Emissivity over land and snow for all SSMIS channels,
Temperature and Moisture Profiles.
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*Date/Time of Initial Impact:* February 24, 2014, 16:00:00 UTC
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*Date/Time of Expected End:*N/A****
*Length of Outage:*N/A*
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*Details/Specifics of Change:*The quality of MiRS F16 SSMIS temperature
and moisture products has degraded substantially due to the failure of
F16 sounding channels since late of October, 2013. This degradation
also
put observable impacts on the MiRS surface and precipitation products,
such as, total precipitable water, rainfall rate, etc. Based on the
impact assessments results, NESDIS has terminated the production
for the
MiRS DMSP F16 products.
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Topic: Termination
of the MiRS F16 SSMIS Products
Date/Time Issued: February
24, 2014 1610 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Microwave Integration Retrieval
System (MiRS) F16 SSMIS products, including: Rain Rate, Total
Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water over ocean, Ice Water
Path, Snow Cover, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Water Equivalent,
Land Surface Temperature, Surface Emissivity over land and snow
for all SSMIS channels, Temperature and Moisture Profiles.
Date/Time of Initial Impact:
February 24, 2014, 16:00:00 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: N/A
Length of Outage:
N/A
Details/Specifics of Change:The quality
of MiRS F16 SSMIS temperature and moisture products has degraded
substantially due to the failure of F16 sounding channels since
late of October, 2013. This degradation also put observable
impacts on the MiRS surface and precipitation products, such as,
total precipitable water, rainfall rate, etc. Based on
the impact
assessments results, NESDIS has terminated the production for the
MiRS DMSP F16 products.
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