Date/Time Issued:
December 4, 2014 1610
UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 4, 2014 14:25:59 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 04/12/14 at 14:25:59 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 50/2014: 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 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 METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 08 December 2014 05:12 - 09:12 UTC Metop-B - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. Metop-A - 10 December 2014 13:14 UTC - 11 December 2014 18:56 UTC Metop-B - 10 December 2014 12:25 UTC - 11 December 2014 18:05 UTC IASI External Calibration (Moon Intrusion) Short interruptions can be expected to IASI GDS Level 1C, atmospheric temperature and water vapour, cloud parameters, ozone and trace gases and emissivity 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. METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT 09 December 2014 09:24 - 09:30 UTC (Metop-A) 09 December 2014 08:35 - 08:41 UTC (Metop-B) SEM MPED in flight calibration A short outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times. 09 December 08:35 - 10:18 Metop-B - SEM TED in flight calibration An outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times. JASON-2 10 December 2014 05:01 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 METEOSAT RSS 13 January 2015 09:00 UTC - 10 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