Subject: Administrative: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule Issued: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080808020003080602060703 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule *Date/Time Issued**:*May 22, 2014 1510UTC* * *Product(s) or Data Impacted:*See list below. ** *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* May 22, 2014 14:48:58 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 22/05/14 at 14:48:58 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 22/2014: 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 EUMETSAT Website 27 May 2014 17:00 - 21:00 UTC Essential maintenance of the EUMETSAT web service will result in an outage to the following online services: - EUMETSAT website, including Extranets - EUMEDS - EUMITS - Online Registration Tool - Anomaly Processing Tool Other web applications linked to from the EUMETSAT website will be available through direct URLs only, e.g.: - UNS:http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/dataHome.do - OSSI:http://www.eumetsat.int/ossi/webpages/about.html - MMAM:http://oiswww.eumetsat.int/UMS/webapps/metopb/mmams/generated/show/all - Product Navigator:http://navigator.eumetsat.int - EOP:https://eoportal.eumetsat.int - Data Centre online ordering:http://archive.eumetsat.int - Metop monitoring:http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/epsreports/html/index.php?instrument=ASCA&sat=M02 METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE 26-28 May 2014 06:30 - 15:15 UTC Essential ground segment maintenance. During this maintenance period there is a risk of a short interruption to the Meteosat-10 data. METEOSAT RSS 26-28 May 2014 06:30 - 15:15 UTC Essential ground segment maintenance. During this maintenance period there is a risk of a short interruption to the Meteosat-9 data. METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE Metop-A MHS The recovery has been completed. Dissemination of L1B products resumed on 21 May 2014 starting from 9:30 UTC sensing time. Product quality is nominal for all five channels. 23 May 2014 - 26 May 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global winds products can be expected. 23 May 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 39390 24 May 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 39411 25 May 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 39419 26 May 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 39440 28 May 2014 12:30 - 19:30 UTC S-NPP - Environmental Satellite Processing Centre (ESPC) annual contingency exercise. ESPC will failover to the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) site. During this time, ATMS and CrIS data from S-NPP will not be available via EUMETCast and the GTS. Data will be available from the NOAA CLASS archive (www.class.noaa.gov/). 31 May 2014 05:12 - 09:12 UTC Metop-A - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 23 May 2014 - 26 May 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT regional winds products can be expected. 23 May 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 39390 24 May 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 39411 25 May 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 39419 26 May 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 39440 since 22 May 2014 09:15 UTC Metop-A EARS ATOVS dissemination with MHS 1a and 1c products has resumed following recovery of the instrument. 28 May 2014 12:30 - 19:30 UTC EARS Service outage. Due to NOAA network testing no EARS data will be available originating from the following NOAA HRPT stations, Gilmore Creek, Miami, Monterey, Ewa Beach, Wallops . THIRD PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS June 2014 Change to Copernicus Global Land Service products: The SPOT-VEGETATION data will be replaced with PROBA-V data. For full details, please seehttp://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2220119.html FUTURE EVENTS METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE 03 June 2014 Changes to the All Sky Radiances (ASR) and Tropospheric Humidity (TH) products - ASR: Update to the BUFR product, affecting only the 'product subtype' in the BUFR section 1 which will be changed from 40 to 41. This will allow users to differentiate between the ASR and the CSR (Clear Sky Radiances) products. - TH: Correction in the generation of the product, resulting in an average difference of about 1 % relative humidity. Test files are available at:ftp://ftp.eumetsat.int/pub/OPS/out/test-data/Test_Files_ASR_TH_2014-05-14/ 03 June 2014 09:00 UTC - 10:00 UTC Essential ground segment maintenance. An outage of the Meteosat-10 product generation is expected, followed by a 3-hour high risk period. METEOSAT RSS 05 June 2014 Update of the calibration coefficient for the four Visible Channels of Meteosat-9 METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 09 June - 22 June 2014 Metop A and Metop B - ASCAT Calibration Outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. 17 June 2014 Update of GOME-2 level 0 to 1b processor to Version 6, with the inclusion of geometrical scene homogeneity and cloud fraction values. For full details and test data, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2220102.html METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 04 June 2014 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. 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 --------------080808020003080602060703 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic:  Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule

Date/Time Issued:  May  22, 2014  1510UTC

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  May 22,  2014  14:48:58 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 22/05/14 at 14:48:58

Seq Nr: 1

Planned activities for week 22/2014:

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

EUMETSAT Website
27 May 2014  17:00 - 21:00 UTC
Essential maintenance of the EUMETSAT web service will result in an
outage to the following online services:
  - EUMETSAT website, including Extranets
  - EUMEDS
  - EUMITS
  - Online Registration Tool
  - Anomaly Processing Tool
Other web applications linked to from the EUMETSAT website will be
available through direct URLs only, e.g.:
  - UNS: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/dataHome.do
  - OSSI: http://www.eumetsat.int/ossi/webpages/about.html
  - MMAM: http://oiswww.eumetsat.int/UMS/webapps/metopb/mmams/
  - Product Navigator: http://navigator.eumetsat.int
  - EOP: https://eoportal.eumetsat.int
  - Data Centre online ordering: http://archive.eumetsat.int
  - Metop monitoring: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/epsreports/html


METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE
26-28 May 2014	06:30 - 15:15 UTC
Essential ground segment maintenance.
During this maintenance period there is a risk of a short interruption
to the Meteosat-10 data.

METEOSAT RSS
26-28 May 2014	06:30 - 15:15 UTC
Essential ground segment maintenance.
During this maintenance period there is a risk of a short interruption
to the Meteosat-9 data.


METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
Metop-A MHS
The recovery has been completed. Dissemination of L1B products resumed
on 21 May 2014 starting from 9:30 UTC sensing time. Product quality
is nominal for all five channels.

23 May 2014 - 26 May 2014
Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration.
Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global
winds products can be expected.
23 May 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 39390
24 May 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 39411
25 May 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 39419
26 May 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 39440

28 May 2014 12:30 - 19:30 UTC
S-NPP - Environmental Satellite Processing Centre (ESPC) annual
contingency exercise.
ESPC will failover to the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
site. During this time, ATMS and CrIS data from S-NPP will not
be available via EUMETCast and the GTS. Data will be available
from the NOAA CLASS archive (www.class.noaa.gov/).

31 May 2014 05:12 - 09:12 UTC
Metop-A - IASI External Calibration
IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available.


REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
23 May 2014 - 26 May 2014
Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration.
Short outages of the ASCAT regional winds products can be expected.
23 May 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 39390
24 May 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 39411
25 May 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 39419
26 May 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 39440

since 22 May 2014  09:15 UTC
Metop-A EARS ATOVS dissemination with MHS 1a and 1c products has
resumed following recovery of the instrument.

28 May 2014 12:30 - 19:30 UTC
EARS Service outage.
Due to NOAA network testing no EARS data will be available originating
from the following NOAA HRPT stations, Gilmore Creek, Miami, Monterey,
Ewa Beach, Wallops .


THIRD PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
June 2014
Change to Copernicus Global Land Service products: The SPOT-VEGETATION
data will be replaced with PROBA-V data.
For full details, please see http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2220119.html


FUTURE EVENTS
METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE
03 June 2014
Changes to the All Sky Radiances (ASR) and Tropospheric Humidity
(TH) products
- ASR: Update to the BUFR product, affecting only the 'product subtype'
in the BUFR section 1 which will be changed from 40 to 41. This will
allow users to differentiate between the ASR and the CSR (Clear Sky
Radiances) products.
- TH: Correction in the generation of the product, resulting in an
average difference of about 1 % relative humidity.
Test files are available at: ftp://ftp.eumetsat.int/pub/OPS/out/test-data/Test_

03 June 2014  09:00 UTC - 10:00 UTC
Essential  ground segment maintenance.
An outage of the Meteosat-10 product generation is expected, followed
by a 3-hour high risk period.


METEOSAT RSS
05 June 2014
Update of the calibration coefficient for the four Visible Channels
of Meteosat-9


METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
09 June - 22 June 2014
Metop A and Metop B - ASCAT Calibration
Outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional
winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey.

17 June 2014
Update of GOME-2 level 0 to 1b processor to Version 6, with the
inclusion of geometrical scene homogeneity and cloud fraction values.
For full details and test data, please
see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2220102.html


METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
04 June 2014
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.
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
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