Date/Time Issued: December
17, 2014
1135 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 17, 2014 10:00:59 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 17/12/14 at 10:00:59 Seq Nr: 3 Planned activities for week 51/2014: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 31 December 2014 (***** UPDATE *****) The EUMETCast-Europe DVB-S service will be stopped. After a date change to 05/01/2015, the DVB-S service provider has decided to maintain the original date of 31/12/2014 for the switch-off of DVB-S. Starting at 10:00 UTC on 31 December, the data streams will be removed step by step. METEOSAT RSS 16 December 2014 09:00 UTC - 18 December 2014 09:00 UTC Monthly RSS interruption Meteosat-9 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. Meteosat-8 RSS image data, rectified to 9.5 deg E, replaces the Meteosat-9 service. The RSS meteorological product service is not available during this timeframe. An outage of 15 minutes (or slightly more) can be expected when switching to and from Meteosat-8. METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 15 December 2014 15:08 UTC Metop-B - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 19 December 2014 08:51 - 09:03 UTC Metop-B - MHS Machine Error Counter Reset A short outage of all MHS products can be expected. 20 December 2014 05:12 - 09:12 UTC Metop-A - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 01 October 2014 - 19 January 2015 - Metop-A 22 December 2014 - 28 February 2015 - Metop-B 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. 16 December 2014 Metop-B In-plane manoeuvre Burn time: 12:01:14.224 UTC duration 5.082 seconds. 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. METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT 16 December 2014 08:38 - 08:44 UTC (Metop-A) 16 December 2014 09:31 - 09:37 UTC (Metop-B) SEM MPED in flight calibration A short outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS >From 11 December 2014 MODIS dbwinds The dissemination of MODIS dbwinds products from Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) has resumed on 11 December 2014. 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 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 Any email message from EUMETSAT is sent in good faith but shall neither be binding nor construed as constituting a commitment by EUMETSAT, except where provided for in a written agreement or contract or if explicitly stated in the email. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of EUMETSAT. This message and any attachments are intended for the sole use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised use, disclosure, dissemination or distribution (in whole or in part) of its contents is not permitted. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system.