Subject: Administrative: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule Issued:
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*Topic: *Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule
*Date/Time Issued**:*April 20*,*2015 1635 UTC*
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*Product(s) or Data Impacted:*See list below.
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*Date/Time of Initial Impact:* April 20, 2015 14:56:14 UTC (from
theEumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)
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*Date/Time of Expected End:***See table in detail for on and off switch
time******
*Length of Outage:*N/A*
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*Details/Specifics of Change:*
Weekly Operations Schedule
Issued on 20/04/15 at 14:56:14
Seq Nr: 3
Planned activities for week 17/2015:
GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION
Meteosat Straylight.
Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Winter/Spring 2015 are available
on EUMETSAT website:
http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Data/ServiceStatus/index.html
(See section Meteosat > Straylight Predictions (XML))
METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE
22 April 2015 09:00 UTC
Introduction of MSG MPEF (Meteorological Product Extraction Facility)
Release 2.1.
Main changes in this release include a new version of RTTOV (Radiative
Transfer Model) and improvements to the OCA (Optimal Cloud Analysis)
product.
For full details and test data (for both EUMETCast and GTS),
see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2602960.html
22 April 2015 09:00 UTC
An outage of up to 1 hour, followed by a high risk period of 3 hours,
associated to the MSG MPEF Release 2.1 (see above) can be expected.
22 April 2015 13:00 - 13:15 UTC
Essential ground segment maintenance.
During this maintenance period there is a risk of interruption to
the 0-Degree Service.
METEOSAT RSS
22 April 2015 13:00 - 13:15 UTC
Essential ground segment maintenance.
During this maintenance period there is a risk of interruption to
the Rapid Scan Service.
22 April 2015
Addition of alternative calibration coefficients to the L1.5 header
for Meteosat-9, based on GSICS inter-calibration. This is done as
part of the MSG MPEF Release 2.1 (see announcement above).
For full details,
see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2602960.html
22 April 2015 09:00 UTC
An outage of up to 1 hour, followed by a high risk period of 3 hours,
associated to the MSG MPEF Release 2.1 (see above) can be expected.
METEOSAT IODC
21 April 2015 - 05:58 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
20 April 2015 14:08 UTC
Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression
A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected
21 April 2015
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 AHRPT DIRECT READOUT
21 April 2015 08:31 - 10:40 UTC
Metop-A - SEM TED in flight calibration
An outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times
21 April 2015 08:31 - 08:37 UTC (Metop-A)
21 April 2015 09:25 - 09:31 UTC (Metop-B)
SEM MPED in flight calibration
A short outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times.
REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
22 April 2015 09:00 UTC
Metop-B data from the Canadian Gander HRPT station will be added to
the EARS-ATOVS, - AVHRR, -ASCAT, -IASI and -NWC services.
Metop-A data from the Canadian Gander HRPT station will be added to
the EARS-ATOVS, - AVHRR, -ASCAT and -IASI services.
Metop-B data from the Canadian Edmonton HRPT station will be added
to the EARS-ATOVS and -IASI services.
SAF PRODUCTS
21 April 2015 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.
22 April 2015 12:30 - 15:30 UTC (***** UPDATE *****)
Essential ground segment maintenance at H-SAF Rome.
During this maintenance period there will be no H-SAF data available
followed by potential brief outages between 15:30 to 19:00 UTC.
THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
10 March 2015 - 25 April 2015
MTSAT-2 Eclipse Operations
The 15:00 image may be degraded.
23 April 2015
SSMIS data from the DMSP-F18 satellite
available on EUMETCast Europe For full details,
see:www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2616159.html
FUTURE EVENTS
METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
28 April 2015 (postponed from 22 April)
Metop-A 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.
METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
20 April 2015 - 22 April 2015
Essential ground segment maintenance
During this maintenance period there is a risk of interruption to
METOP products.
05 May 2015 - 07 May 2015
Essential ground segment maintenance
During this maintenance period there is a risk of short interruption
or delay of all METOP-B products.
SAF PRODUCTS
28 April 2015
Discontinuation of OSI SAF Metop-A ASCAT 12.5 km Hamming window
based winds.
For full details,
see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2568133.html
DATA CENTRE
28 April 2015 08:00 UTC - 30 April 2015 15:00 UTC
Data Centre Servers Major Upgrade
During this time, no orders will be processed and the data set
catalogue will not be updated.
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
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Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule
Date/Time Issued:
April 20, 2015 1635 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted:
See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact:
April 20, 2015 14:56:14 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 20/04/15 at 14:56:14
Seq Nr: 3
Planned activities for week 17/2015:
GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION
Meteosat Straylight.
Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Winter/Spring 2015 are available
on EUMETSAT website:
http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Data/ServiceStatus/in
(See section Meteosat > Straylight Predictions (XML))
METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE
22 April 2015 09:00 UTC
Introduction of MSG MPEF (Meteorological Product Extraction Facility)
Release 2.1.
Main changes in this release include a new version of RTTOV (Radiative
Transfer Model) and improvements to the OCA (Optimal Cloud Analysis)
product.
For full details and test data (for both EUMETCast
and GTS), see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2602960.html
22 April 2015 09:00 UTC
An outage of up to 1 hour, followed by a high risk period of 3 hours,
associated to the MSG MPEF Release 2.1 (see above) can be expected.
22 April 2015 13:00 - 13:15 UTC
Essential ground segment maintenance.
During this maintenance period there is a risk of interruption to
the 0-Degree Service.
METEOSAT RSS
22 April 2015 13:00 - 13:15 UTC
Essential ground segment maintenance.
During this maintenance period there is a risk of interruption to
the Rapid Scan Service.
22 April 2015
Addition of alternative calibration coefficients to the L1.5 header
for Meteosat-9, based on GSICS inter-calibration. This is done as
part of the MSG MPEF Release 2.1 (see announcement above).
For full details, see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2602960.html
22 April 2015 09:00 UTC
An outage of up to 1 hour, followed by a high risk period of 3 hours,
associated to the MSG MPEF Release 2.1 (see above) can be expected.
METEOSAT IODC
21 April 2015 - 05:58 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
20 April 2015 14:08 UTC
Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression
A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected
21 April 2015
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 AHRPT DIRECT READOUT
21 April 2015 08:31 - 10:40 UTC
Metop-A - SEM TED in flight calibration
An outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times
21 April 2015 08:31 - 08:37 UTC (Metop-A)
21 April 2015 09:25 - 09:31 UTC (Metop-B)
SEM MPED in flight calibration
A short outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times.
REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
22 April 2015 09:00 UTC
Metop-B data from the Canadian Gander HRPT station will be added to
the EARS-ATOVS, - AVHRR, -ASCAT, -IASI and -NWC services.
Metop-A data from the Canadian Gander HRPT station will be added to
the EARS-ATOVS, - AVHRR, -ASCAT and -IASI services.
Metop-B data from the Canadian Edmonton HRPT station will be added
to the EARS-ATOVS and -IASI services.
SAF PRODUCTS
21 April 2015 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.
22 April 2015 12:30 - 15:30 UTC (***** UPDATE *****)
Essential ground segment maintenance at H-SAF Rome.
During this maintenance period there will be no H-SAF data available
followed by potential brief outages between 15:30 to 19:00 UTC.
THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
10 March 2015 - 25 April 2015
MTSAT-2 Eclipse Operations
The 15:00 image may be degraded.
23 April 2015
SSMIS data from the DMSP-F18 satellite available on EUMETCast
Europe For full details, see: www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2616159.html
FUTURE EVENTS
METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
28 April 2015 (postponed from 22 April)
Metop-A 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.
METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
20 April 2015 - 22 April 2015
Essential ground segment maintenance
During this maintenance period there is a risk of interruption to
METOP products.
05 May 2015 - 07 May 2015
Essential ground segment maintenance
During this maintenance period there is a risk of short interruption
or delay of all METOP-B products.
SAF PRODUCTS
28 April 2015
Discontinuation of OSI SAF Metop-A ASCAT 12.5 km Hamming window
based winds.
For full details, see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2568133.html
DATA CENTRE
28 April 2015 08:00 UTC - 30 April 2015 15:00 UTC
Data Centre Servers Major Upgrade
During this time, no orders will be processed and the data set
catalogue will not be updated.
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
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