Subject: Product Outage/Anomaly: Metop-A ATOVS Sounding anomaly , This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_M3fD1nrXszwj7HrKhMwoIw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Topic:*Metop-A ATOVS Sounding anomaly *Date/Time**Issued:*December 2, 2015 1629Z ** *Product(s) or Data Impacted: * ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-A *Date/Time of Initial Impact:*December 2, 2015 1406Z ** *Date/Time of Expected End:*TBD *Length of Outage:*TBD *Details/Specifics of Change:* Due to the degradation of the HIRS instrument on Metop-A, the quality of the ATOVS Sounding products has decreased below specification. Therefore the near real-time dissemination (via Eumetcast and GTS) of Metop-A ATOVS Sounding products will be discontinued. *Contact Information for Further Information:* ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880** *Web Site(s) for applicable information:* N/A 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.govor (301) 817-3880 . Please note: it maytake up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request. --Boundary_(ID_M3fD1nrXszwj7HrKhMwoIw) Content-type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Topic:  Metop-A ATOVS Sounding anomaly 

Date/Time Issued:  December 2, 2015  1629Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-A

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  December 2, 2015  1406Z

Date/Time of Expected End:  TBD

Length of Outage:  TBD

Details/Specifics of Change:  Due to the degradation of the HIRS instrument on Metop-A, the quality of the ATOVS Sounding products has decreased below specification. Therefore the near real-time dissemination (via Eumetcast and GTS) of Metop-A ATOVS Sounding products will be discontinued.

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

Web Site(s) for applicable information:  N/A

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