Date/Time Issued:
November
21 2014 1325 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: November 21 2014 10:28:32 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 21/11/14 at 10:28:32 Seq Nr: 2 Planned activities for week 48/2014: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 14 August - 31 December 2014 The EUMETCast-Europe DVB-S2 Basic Service is operational. A parallel operational phase with DVB-S is provided till 31 December 2014, at which date the DVB-S service will end. Further information is available: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2305543.html EUMETCast Africa Maintenance 25 November 2014 10:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC Several short interruptions can be expected in this time period due to ground system upgrades. METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE >From 4 November 2014 The SEVIRI HRV upper window will be shifted Westwards daily at 17:00 UTC in order to cover the Azores and then moved back in its original position at 00:00 UTC. This will be done for a trial period of one month, after which, unless differently announced it is foreseen that the HRV upper window movement will be applied operationally. For full details, see: www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2354871.html 25 November 2014 01:28 UTC Meteosat-10 Attitude Slew Manoeuvre Users may experience degraded image quality for up to 3 hours following the manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded meteorological product quality for up to 3 hours following the manoeuvre. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 25 November 2014 - 27 November 2014 Metop-A - IASI Parameter update for Compensation device test. IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available during the following times. 25 November 2014 06:12 UTC - 08:41 UTC 26 November 2014 05:08 UTC - 09:06 UTC 27 November 2014 08:52 UTC - 11:20 UTC METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 25 November 2014 08:47 - 09:00 UTC Metop-B - MHS Machine Error Counter Reset A short outage of all MHS products can be expected. 24 November 08:00 - 16:00 UTC (***** UPDATE *****) 25 November 08:00 - 16:00 UTC McMurdo Maintenance The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system may be interrupted during these periods and only nominal Arctic timeliness may be available. 25 November 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, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 01 October - 30 December 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT Extensive Calibration Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. 17 November - 30 November 2014 Metop-B - ASCAT Calibrations for transponder maintenance. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products may occur, during satellite passes over Turkey. METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT 25 November 2014 09:13 - 09:19 UTC (Metop-A) 25 November 2014 08:25 - 08:31 UTC (Metop-B) SEM MPED in flight calibration A short outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times. DATA CENTRE 25 November 2014 11:00 UTC - 27 November 11:00 UTC EUMETSAT Data Centre Robot Tape Library upgrade. During this time, no orders will be processed. SAF PRODUCTS 25 November 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. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 10 November 2014 03:00 UTC - 28 November 2014 02:00 UTC MTSAT-2 JMA will switch operations from MTSAT-2 to MTSAT-1R due to ground segment maintenance. MTSAT-1R image data labelled as MTSAT-2 and rectified to 145 degree East will be disseminated. 25 November 2014 Global NOAA ATOVS Service available on EUMETCast-Europe. This service consists of L1 data from the ATOVS instruments onboard NOAA-15 and NOAA-18. For full details, see: www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2418160.html FUTURE EVENTS METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE 02 December 2014 09:00 UTC - 09 December 2014 09:00 UTC Meteosat-10 SEVIRI decontamination During this period, Meteosat-8 image data (rectified to 0 deg) and meteorological products will replace the Meteosat-10 service. For full details, see: www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2418124.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