Subject: Product Outage/Anomaly, DMSP F17 Data Quality Issue, Issued: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_T5Hgangp6e1XP4/5dbribQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Topic:*DMSP F17 SSMIS Data Quality Issue* * *Date/Time**Issued:*April 15, 2016 1455Z *Product(s) or Data Impacted: *DMSP F17 SSMIS EDR products *Date/Time of Initial Impact:*April 10, 2016* *** *Date/Time of Expected End:* TBD *Length of Outage:*TBD *Details/Specifics of Change: * FNMOC reports that the changes in SADLAG recently commanded on F17 show a negative impact on SSMIS channel 16, which results a degradation to the derived EDR products including wind speed, sea ice concentration, rain rate over land, TPW, and surface type. Users are suggested to use the data cautiously. FNMOC will continue monitoring the data and keep users posted** *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_T5Hgangp6e1XP4/5dbribQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Topic: DMSP F17 SSMIS Data Quality Issue

Date/Time Issued:  April 15, 2016 1455Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: DMSP F17 SSMIS EDR products

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  April 10, 2016

Date/Time of Expected End: TBD

Length of Outage: TBD

Details/Specifics of Change:  FNMOC reports that the changes in SADLAG recently commanded on F17 show a negative impact on SSMIS channel 16, which results a degradation to the derived EDR products including wind speed, sea ice concentration, rain rate over land, TPW, and surface type. Users are suggested to use the data cautiously. FNMOC will continue monitoring the data and keep users posted

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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