Subject: Administrative: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule Issued: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040907020409030702020109 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule *Date/Time Issued**:*April 23, 2014 1645 UTC* * *Product(s) or Data Impacted:*See list below. ** *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* April 23, 2014 12:03:53 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 23/04/14 at 12:03:53 Seq Nr: 2 Planned activities for week 17/2014: 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)") EUMETCast Training Channel now available The EUMETCast Training Channel gives access to training resources and software. For more details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2193496.html METEOSAT RSS 23 April 2014 07:30 - 10:00 UTC Due to ground segment maintenance there may be a risk of loss to image products and associated meteorological products. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE Metop-A MHS Hardware failure Investigation into the anomaly has been progressing through on-board diagnostic testing. The failure is believed to be most likely due to a short-circuit of two independent heater switches. However, the testing has demonstrated that it should be possible to reach an operational state in a safe configuration through alteration of existing procedures on-ground, possibly in combination with onboard software changes. The instrument manufacturer is currently performing a detailed assessment of the failure scenario, which is a prerequisite to the continuation of further diagnostic testing. MHS L1B and ATOVS L2 products are expected to remain unavailable for several weeks. Metop-B and NOAA-19 products are unaffected and will continue to be available. 21 April 2014 14:38 UTC orbit 38939 Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 24 April 2014 - 27 April 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global winds products can be expected. 24 April 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 38978 25 April 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 38999 26 April 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 39007 27 April 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 39028 METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 24 April 2014 - 27 April 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT regional winds products can be expected. 24 April 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 38978 25 April 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 38999 26 April 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 39007 27 April 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 39028 EARS-ATOVS 23 April 2014, The dissemination of EARS-ATOVS products for METOP-A will be resumed for all products from the HIRS and AMSU-A instruments. Please note: The ATOVS (HIRS) Level 1d products will not contain MHS data until further notice. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS From 31 March 2014 14:00 UTC and until further notice, Data from Electro-L N1 are not available. Oceansat-2 Due to an irrecoverable OSCAT instrument failure, the following services are now discontinued: - OSCAT L2A ISRO product - OSCAT L2B ISRO product - OSCAT Winds at 50 km Swath Grid (provided through the OSI SAF) SARAL 24 April 2014 Update to SARAL BUFR products. For more details and test data, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2095904.html JASON-2 (***** NEW UPDATE ******) 25 April 2014 08:57 UTC Jason-2 Manoeuvre. OGDR, OGDR-SSHA and OGDR-BUFR products may be degraded for 2 hours after the manoeuvre. This will affect the sea surface height, but not the wind and wave content in the products. FUTURE EVENTS METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 29 April 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. 29 April 2014 New Polar Multi-Sensor Aerosol Optical Properties product available on EUMETCast-Europe For full details, please see:www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2162725.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 --------------040907020409030702020109 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations ScheduleDate/Time Issued: April
23, 2014 1645 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 23, 2014 12:03:53 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 23/04/14 at 12:03:53 Seq Nr: 2 Planned activities for week 17/2014: 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)") EUMETCast Training Channel now available The EUMETCast Training Channel gives access to training resources and software. For more details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2193496.html METEOSAT RSS 23 April 2014 07:30 - 10:00 UTC Due to ground segment maintenance there may be a risk of loss to image products and associated meteorological products. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE Metop-A MHS Hardware failure Investigation into the anomaly has been progressing through on-board diagnostic testing. The failure is believed to be most likely due to a short-circuit of two independent heater switches. However, the testing has demonstrated that it should be possible to reach an operational state in a safe configuration through alteration of existing procedures on-ground, possibly in combination with onboard software changes. The instrument manufacturer is currently performing a detailed assessment of the failure scenario, which is a prerequisite to the continuation of further diagnostic testing. MHS L1B and ATOVS L2 products are expected to remain unavailable for several weeks. Metop-B and NOAA-19 products are unaffected and will continue to be available. 21 April 2014 14:38 UTC orbit 38939 Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 24 April 2014 - 27 April 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global winds products can be expected. 24 April 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 38978 25 April 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 38999 26 April 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 39007 27 April 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 39028 METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 24 April 2014 - 27 April 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT regional winds products can be expected. 24 April 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 38978 25 April 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 38999 26 April 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 39007 27 April 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 39028 EARS-ATOVS 23 April 2014, The dissemination of EARS-ATOVS products for METOP-A will be resumed for all products from the HIRS and AMSU-A instruments. Please note: The ATOVS (HIRS) Level 1d products will not contain MHS data until further notice. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS >From 31 March 2014 14:00 UTC and until further notice, Data from Electro-L N1 are not available. Oceansat-2 Due to an irrecoverable OSCAT instrument failure, the following services are now discontinued: - OSCAT L2A ISRO product - OSCAT L2B ISRO product - OSCAT Winds at 50 km Swath Grid (provided through the OSI SAF) SARAL 24 April 2014 Update to SARAL BUFR products. For more details and test data, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2095904.html JASON-2 (***** NEW UPDATE ******) 25 April 2014 08:57 UTC Jason-2 Manoeuvre. OGDR, OGDR-SSHA and OGDR-BUFR products may be degraded for 2 hours after the manoeuvre. This will affect the sea surface height, but not the wind and wave content in the products. FUTURE EVENTS METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 29 April 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. 29 April 2014 New Polar Multi-Sensor Aerosol Optical Properties product available on EUMETCast-Europe For full details, please see: www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2162725.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--------------040907020409030702020109--