Subject: Administrative: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule Issued: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070803040104080808030003 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule *Date/Time Issued**:*March 6, 2014 1546 UTC* * *Product(s) or Data Impacted:*See list below. ** *Date/Time of Initial Impact:*March 6 , 2014 14:56:01 UTC (from theEumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message) ** *Date/Time of Expected End:***See table in detail for on and off switch time****** *Length of Outage:*N/A* * *Details/Specifics of Change:* Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 06/03/14 at 14:56:01 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 11/2014: 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 Meteosat Straylight. During eclipse seasons,stray light affects the way the spacecraft instrument is commanded. There are periods where the black body calibration is performed after the instrument retrace instead of prior to it. This delays files for the time of the calibration (approximately three minutes) which then affects the data timeliness in the same way. This nominal calibration activity during eclipse season will therefore cause periods of noticeable delays to reception of data by Users. Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Winter/Spring 2014 are available on EUMETSAT Website: www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/ServiceStatus/index.htm?l=en (See section "Straylight Predictions (XML)") 12 March 2014 09:00 - 12:00 UTC Risk of short interruption to the EUMETCast-Americas service during this period, due to maintenance work at the uplink station. METEOSAT RSS 11 March 2014 06:00 UTC - 13 March 2014 09:00 UTC Monthly RSS interruption Meteosat-9 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. Meteosat-8 RSS image data, rectified to 9.5 deg E, replaces the Meteosat-9 service. The RSS meteorological product service is not available during this timeframe. An outage of 15 minutes (or slightly more) can be expected when switching to and from Meteosat-8. METEOSAT IODC 30 January 2014 - 27 March 2014 Meteosat-7 Spring 2014 eclipse season Slots 37 to 43 may not be available. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 10 March 2014 08:35 UTC - 15 March 2014 09:02 UTC Metop-B - IASI Decontamination IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. 11 March 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). METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 12 March 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 SAF PRODUCTS 11 March 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. S-NPP PROVISIONAL DATA 11 March 2014 Due to system maintenance at NOAA's NPP Data Exploitation ground segment, there is a risk of outage of global NPP products. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS Effective from 24 February 2014 15:00 UTC and until further notice Stop of the dissemination via EUMETCast of ISRO OSCAT data as they currently have degraded quality. From 21 February 2014 08:00 UTC and until further notice FY-3B Due to a failure of the MWTS instrument on board FY-3B satellite, the dissemination of MWTS data on EUMETCast has stopped. 02 March 2014 - 10 March 2014 MTSAT-2 Due to sun co-linearity the 03:00 UTC files may be unavailable. FUTURE EVENTS GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 03 April 2014 Removal of the MSG Administration Messages and change of format for MSG news messages sent via EUMETCast. For more details, please see:www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2107074.html METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 26 March 2014 METOP-B - Out-of-plane manoeuvre All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS, SEM, in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service, will not be available. The AVHRR GDS Level 1 products and AVHRR regional data from Metop-B will be temporarily degraded. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 18 March 2014 Change of EUMETCast channel for the 'Copernicus Global Land Service - Africa' data stream The data will move from EUMETSAT Data Channel 3 to TPC-5 channel. For more details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2095896.html?lang=EN&pState=1&unCacher=292 24 April 2014 (postponed from the initial date of 13 March 2014) Update to SARAL BUFR products. For more details and test data, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2095904.html 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 --------------070803040104080808030003 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic:  Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule

Date/Time Issued: March 6,  2014  1546 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  See list below.

Date/Time of Initial Impact:March 6 ,  2014  14:56:01 UTC  (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)

Date/Time of Expected End:  See table in detail for on and off switch time  

Length of Outage:  N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:

Weekly Operations Schedule

Issued on 06/03/14 at 14:56:01

Seq Nr: 1

Planned activities for week 11/2014:
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/Techn

Meteosat Straylight.
During eclipse seasons,stray light affects the way the spacecraft
instrument is commanded. There are periods where the black body
calibration is performed after the instrument retrace instead of prior
to it. This delays files for the time of the calibration (approximately
three minutes) which then affects the data timeliness in the same
way. This nominal calibration activity during eclipse season will
therefore cause periods of noticeable delays to reception of data
by Users.
Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Winter/Spring 2014 are available
on EUMETSAT Website:
www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/ServiceStatus/index.htm?l=en
(See section "Straylight Predictions (XML)")

12 March 2014 09:00 - 12:00 UTC
Risk of short interruption to the EUMETCast-Americas service during
this period, due to maintenance work at the uplink station.


METEOSAT RSS
11 March 2014  06:00 UTC - 13 March 2014  09:00 UTC
Monthly RSS interruption
Meteosat-9 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled
Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance.
Meteosat-8 RSS image data, rectified to 9.5 deg E, replaces the
Meteosat-9 service. The RSS meteorological product service is not
available during this timeframe.
An outage of 15 minutes (or slightly more) can be expected when
switching to and from Meteosat-8.


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


METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
10 March 2014 08:35 UTC - 15 March 2014 09:02 UTC
Metop-B - IASI Decontamination
IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available.

11 March 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).


METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
12 March 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


SAF PRODUCTS
11 March 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.


S-NPP PROVISIONAL DATA
11 March 2014
Due to system maintenance at NOAA's NPP Data Exploitation ground
segment, there is a risk of outage of global NPP products.


THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
Effective from 24 February 2014 15:00 UTC and until further notice
Stop of the dissemination via EUMETCast of ISRO OSCAT data as they
currently have degraded quality.

>From 21 February 2014 08:00 UTC and until further notice
FY-3B
Due to a failure of the MWTS instrument on board FY-3B satellite,
the dissemination of MWTS data on EUMETCast has stopped.

02 March 2014 - 10 March 2014
MTSAT-2
Due to sun co-linearity the 03:00 UTC files may be unavailable.


FUTURE EVENTS
GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION
03 April 2014
Removal of the MSG Administration Messages and change of format for
MSG news messages sent via EUMETCast.
For more details, please see: www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2107074.html


METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
26 March 2014
METOP-B - Out-of-plane manoeuvre
All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS,
SEM, in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service,
will not be available.
The AVHRR GDS Level 1 products and AVHRR regional data from Metop-B
will be temporarily degraded.


THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
18 March 2014
Change of EUMETCast channel for the 'Copernicus Global Land Service -
Africa' data stream
The data will move from EUMETSAT Data Channel 3 to TPC-5 channel.
For more details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/webs

24 April 2014 (postponed from the initial date of 13 March 2014)
Update to SARAL BUFR products.
For more details and test data, please
see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2095904.html




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
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