Date/Time Issued:
November
28, 2014 0753 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: November 28, 2014 09:52:46 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 28/11/14 at 09:52:46 Seq Nr: 2 Planned activities for week 49/2014: 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 >From 02 December 2014 The daily log files will be based on DVB-S2 and may show inconsistent records for 02 December 2014. EUMETCast Americas and Africa Maintenance 02 December 2014 10:00 UTC Short interruptions can be expected at this time with a few file losses due to ground system upgrades. There is a high risk of interruption from 10:00 UTC to 16:00 UTC. METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE >From 2 December 2014 After the completion of a one-month trial period, the SEVIRI HRV upper window shift will be applied operationally. The HRV upper window is 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. 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 METEOSAT IODC 02 December 2014 - 23:28 UTC Meteosat-7 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre Users may observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours following the manoeuvre. METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 01 December 2014 14:05 UTC Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 01 December 08:00 - 16:00 UTC 02 December 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. 02 December 2014 08:36 - 08:48 UTC S-NPP - VIIRS Lunar Roll During this time ATMS and CrIS data from S-NPP may not be available. 4 December 2014 Global AVHRR Atmospheric Motion Vectors: Correction to the speed bias difference between the Metop A/B and Metop B/A products. This difference was due to the small drift in orbit of the satellites. With this correction, the speed bias and RMS will be similar for the two complementary products. 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. 01 December 14 (***** UPDATE *****) Suomi NPP HRD reconfiguration changes will be implemented including the removal of VIIRS band M7 data. 04 December 14 (***** UPDATE *****) Suomi NPP CriS on-orbit Full Spectrum mode will be implemented. METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT 02 December 2014 08:28 - 08:34 UTC (Metop-A) 02 December 2014 09:21 - 09:27 UTC (Metop-B) SEM MPED in flight calibration A short outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times. 02 December 08:28 - 10:11 Metop-A - SEM TED in flight calibration An outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times. FUTURE EVENTS METEOSAT RSS 13 January 2015 09:00 UTC - 12 February 2015 09:00 UTC Meteosat-9 RSS yearly 1-month interruption. There will be no RSS gap filling coverage from Meteosat-8 during the one month Meteosat-9 RSS outage. For more details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/websi METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 16 December 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. 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