Subject: Administrative: GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder East-West This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050609060609030802030708 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder East-West scan mirror emissivity coefficients will be updated on November 25, 2014. *Date/Time Issued:* November 24, 2014 1730 UTC *Product(s) or Data Impacted:* GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder GVAR Data * **Date/Time of Initial Impact:* November 25, 2014 2100 UTC * **Date/Time of Expected End: * Permanent Change * **Length of Outage:* N/A * **Details/Specifics of Change:* On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, the new scan mirror emissivity coefficients for GOES-15 Sounder will be promoted to the GOES Operations during housekeeping at 2045 UTC. The existing GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder East-West emissivity coefficients in use since GOES-15 Post Launch Test have been in slight error, and the new emissivity coefficients delivered by the instrument vendor will correct these errors. Upon this changeover users can expect to see small improvement in accuracy of the GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder calibrated radiances, most noticeably on channel 8 (11 um band). The improvement is not uniform, and will depend on both the detected Earth scene temperature and the time-of-day (via the diurnally varying temperature of the Sounder scan mirror). * **Contact Information for Further Information: * ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 * **Web Site(s) for applicable information:* See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other satellite related messages. See http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/calibration/index.html for more on GOES calibration and emissivity. This message was sent by ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov. You have been sent this and other notifications because you have opted in to receive it. If for any reason, you wish to unsubscribe, please contact ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880. Please note: it may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request. --------------050609060609030802030708 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic:  GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder East-West scan mirror emissivity coefficients will be updated on November 25, 2014.

Date/Time Issued:  November 24, 2014  1730 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder GVAR Data

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  November 25, 2014  2100 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End:  Permanent Change

Length of Outage:  N/A

Details/Specifics of Change: 

On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, the new scan mirror emissivity coefficients for GOES-15 Sounder will be promoted to the GOES Operations during housekeeping at 2045 UTC.

The existing GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder East-West emissivity coefficients in use since GOES-15 Post Launch Test have been in slight error, and the new emissivity coefficients delivered by the instrument vendor will correct these errors. Upon this changeover users can expect to see small improvement in accuracy of the GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder calibrated radiances, most noticeably on channel 8 (11 um band).  The improvement is not uniform, and will depend on both the detected Earth scene temperature and the time-of-day (via the diurnally varying temperature of the Sounder scan mirror).

Contact Information for Further Information:  ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information:
See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other satellite related messages.
See http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/calibration/in for more on GOES calibration and emissivity.

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