Topic:M-B Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule

Date/Time Issued: February 21, 2020 1457Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:M-B See list below.

Date/Time of Initial Impact:M-B February 21, 2020 1437ZM-B (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)

Date/Time of Expected End:M-B See table in detail for on and off switch time M-B

Length of Outage:M-B N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:



Message number: 6684
Message creation: Fri Feb 21 14:37:34 GMT+00:00 2020


Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 4920
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: There is an issue with the latest EUMETCast software package, affecting Linux operating systems when the Tellicast client software (version 2.14.5) is used in combination with the Safenet drivers. A new alpha version of Tellicast, with a fix of the issue, is available for download. See the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4451027.html
Issue Time: 2019-06-27 11:18:18.0
Services:

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5355
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-14 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-04-15 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: GOME-2
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: The Metop-A satellite with GOME-2 on-board is currently in drifting orbit. As a consequence there are periods during which the GOME-2 instrument is not able to carry out its daily solar calibration measurement. The third such period will be from 14 November 2019 to 14 April 2020. During this period, the solar mean reference spectrum provided in the Metop-A GOME-2 level-1B product will be automatically replaced by a modelled solar spectrum using information on solar activity from Metop-B. Therefore, it is expected that the quality of both level-1B and level-2 products might undergo slight changes during this period, and there will be an associated risk of degraded product quality for Metop-A GOME-2 products.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-01-10 07:39:08.0
Services: GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-A
GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A
AC SAF - Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5475
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2020-01-06 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-04-01 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: ASCAT
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Calibrations to support transponder test. Outages of products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. [Rev. 2] End date updated.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-10 14:53:52.0
Services: ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5596
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-01-29 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-31 23:59:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: HRPT
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: HRPT switching zone drift. Risk of interruption. The Metop-A satellite is currently in drifting orbit. As a consequence the geographical zones, defined to control the switching times of the satellite HRPT system, are drifting westwards at a rate of 0.02 degree per day. Users near the borders of switching zones might experience small changes in their acquisition times of the HRPT signal. On-board timings will be updated approximately every 8 months to compensate for the drift geolocation. A dedicated announcement will be issued in advance of each of these updates.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-03 10:12:03.0
Services: A-DCS AHRPT Metop-A
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-A
AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-A
AVHRR AHRPT Metop-A
IASI AHRPT Metop-A
HIRS AHRPT Metop-A
GRAS AHRPT Metop-A
MHS AHRPT Metop-A
GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5600
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-01-30 08:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Due to system maintenance, the SARAL service is in a risk-state and product degradation or losses can be expected, until further notice. This is affecting all SARAL products distributed on EUMETCast.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-01-30 16:16:27.0
Services: SARAL Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5470
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2020-01-31 16:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-02 16:00:00.0
Subject: service-change
Detail: NOAA plans to terminate the GOES-15 Imager service on 31 January 2020. The GOES-15 Imager L1b data in netCDF format provided by EUMETSAT will stop being distributed on EUMETCast at the same time. [Rev. 2]: End date updated. NOAA has announced an extension of the GOES-15 imager service to 2 March 2020. The provision by EUMETSAT of GOES-15 L1b data in netCDF will continue until then.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-01-30 10:17:31.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5580
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2020-02-03 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-03 17:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: IASI Level 2 Patch installation V6.5.9 and System upgrade. Correction of two anomalies detected on the IASI L2 V 6.5 which is operational since the 4th December 2019: - Cloud: cloud top temperature values were sometimes incorrectly supplied although no clouds could actually be retrieved. All cloud parameters are now reset to NaN in the absence of a cloud retrieval. - SO2: Information about missing input IASI data were not copied into the SO2 quality flag, which was also preventing the use of forecast data instead of IASI L2 profiles when those were of degraded quality. The correct processing and flagging have been restored. Please note that an outage of up to 8 hours during working hours might be encountered. [Rev. 2] The maintenance is postponed to a future date.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-03 17:14:15.0
Services: IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A
IASI Sounding products- Metop-C
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5566
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-07 20:30:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-30 20:30:00.0
Satellites: MET-8
Subject: eclipse-season
Impact: risk-of-degradation
Detail: There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 20:30 to 23:00 in the given time period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-01-22 16:24:40.0
Services: IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5574
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2020-02-12 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-12 17:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A,Metop-B,Metop-C
Subsystem: GRAS
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Software Release of GRAS PPF. Changes to the GRAS Level 1 product algorithms. The algorithm changes include technical improvements and bug fixes, as well as support to the changed data formats of the auxiliary files provided by the Radio Occultation Support Network (RSN). This message refers to the second phase of the deployment which will use the changed RSN auxiliary files (after a first phase planned to take place on 04 February 2020). [Rev. 2] The second phase of the deployment will no longer take place on 12 February 2020, it is postponed to a future date.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-05 16:36:56.0
Services: GRAS Level 1 - Metop-A
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5665
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-20 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-20 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: EUMETSAT Polar System-Second Generation (EPS-SG) simulated 3MI Level 1B test data are now available for user familiarisation. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4880877.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 14:51:49.0
Services:

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5675
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-20 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-20 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: New Metop AVHRR Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) Climate Data Records are now available to users. Two datasets have been released: AVHRR Polar AMVs Climate Data Record and AVHRR Global (dual) AMVs Climate Data Record. These two datasets are Thematic Climate Data Records (TCDRs) produced for the Copernicus Climate Change Service. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4884927.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-20 11:40:26.0
Services: AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-A
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
Multi-Metop Wind Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5671
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-24 12:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-24 16:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: data-delayed
Detail: Comms link Maintenance. The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system might be interrupted. Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness might be available during this period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 15:43:28.0
Services: AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B
MHS Level 1 - Metop-B
SEM L0 - Metop-B
AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B
HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B
ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B
Multi-Metop Wind Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5661
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-24 14:58:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-24 19:19:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A
Subsystem: OLCI
Subject: instrument-special-operation
Impact: risk-of-delay
Detail: As a result of a Twilight Test to be performed, additional OLCI scientific data will be generated during the following sensing times: 14:58:32 - 15:57:55; 16:39:30 - 17:38:53 and 18:20:59 - 19:19:52. This operation might have an impact on the production of all S3A products.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-18 11:34:53.0
Services: OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5567
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-24 22:30:00.0
End Time: 2020-04-13 01:00:00.0
Satellites: MET-10
Subject: eclipse-season
Impact: risk-of-degradation
Detail: There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 22:30 to 01:00 next day in the given time period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-01-22 16:27:24.0
Services: RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5663
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-25 07:30:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-27 17:30:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-delay
Detail:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 11:22:45.0
Services: OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3B
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B
OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3B
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5668
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-25 08:42:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-25 08:49:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 15:03:15.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5667
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-25 09:07:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-25 09:14:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 15:01:58.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5669
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-25 09:35:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-25 09:42:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 15:04:03.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5583
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-25 11:15:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-07 12:15:00.0
Satellites: MET-10
Subject: Sun-colinearity
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Sun Co-linearity. Repeat cycles 11:15 to 12:15 may be affected.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-01-29 15:48:45.0
Services: RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5674
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-26 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-11 00:00:00.0
Subject: Sun-interference
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Sun interference may affect the EUMETCast broadcast satellites. Users might experience lower signal margin or outages on EUMETCast. The exact times and durations of the signal degradation or outages depend on the reception location.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-20 11:36:03.0
Services: EUMETCast-Europe
EUMETCast-Africa

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5678
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-26 04:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-26 10:00:00.0
Satellites: Himawari-8
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Due to a system change of the HimawariCloud system by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) there is a risk of interruption of Himawari-8 Image data in the given time period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-21 12:26:52.0
Services: Himawari Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5666
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-26 05:58:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-26 05:59:00.0
Satellites: MET-10
Subject: in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: East-West Station Keeping Manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded image quality and degraded meteorological product quality up to a few hours after the manoeuvre.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 14:59:43.0
Services: RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5670
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-26 07:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-28 15:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Maspolamas EARS Station Data Line Provider Change. There may be disruption to all Maspalomas acquired EARS services during the indicated maintenance period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 15:11:43.0
Services: EARS-ASCAT
EARS-IASI
EARS-ATMS
EARS-ATOVS
EARS-AVHRR
EARS-CrlS
EARS-VASS
EARS-VIIRS
EARS-NWC

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5591
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2020-02-26 07:51:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-03 10:30:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: instrument-decontamination
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: IASI Decontamination. [Rev. 2] Date/Time Updated.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 15:07:53.0
Services: IASI Level 1 - Metop-C
IASI Sounding products- Metop-C
EARS-IASI
IASI AHRPT Metop-C
OSI SAF - Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5637
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2020-02-26 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-26 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: Change to processing standards of SARAL/AltiKa Operational Geophysical Data Records (OGDR). For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: Change of date from 25/02/2020 to 26/02/2020.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4868376.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-21 12:35:52.0
Services: SARAL Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5672
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-26 14:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-26 20:00:00.0
Satellites: NOAA-20
Subject: instrument-maintenance
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: NOAA-20 ATMS Planned Outage due to EEPROM data write activity.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 15:53:30.0
Services:

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5568
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-27 23:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-04-12 01:30:00.0
Satellites: MET-11
Subject: eclipse-season
Impact: risk-of-degradation
Detail: There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 23:00 to 01:30 next day in the given time period
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-01-22 16:29:43.0
Services: 0M-BM-0 SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
0M-BM-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5584
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-02-28 12:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-09 13:00:00.0
Satellites: MET-11
Subject: Sun-colinearity
Impact: risk-of-degradation
Detail: Sun Co-linearity. Repeat cycles 12:00 to 13:00 may be affected.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-01-29 15:51:07.0
Services: 0M-BM-0 SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
0M-BM-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5421
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-03-02 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-02 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: The NOAA Direct Broadcast Real-Time Network (DBRTN) data, currently distributed on EUMETCast, will be removed on 2 March 2020. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4759427.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 11:30:54.0
Services: NDB (NOAA Direct Broadcast)

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5676
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-03-10 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-10 09:00:00.0
Satellites: MET-8,MET-9,MET-10,MET-11
Subsystem: SEVIRI
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Update of the calibration coefficients of the SEVIRI solar channels (VIS-0.6, VIS-0.8, VIS-1.6, HRVIS). The aging of the radiometer requires an update of the coefficients approximately every 3 years. This will result in very small changes in the meteorological products, with a corresponding small improvement in the quality of the products.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-20 12:01:02.0
Services: 0M-BM-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products
0M-BM-0 SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5673
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-03-25 10:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-25 10:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: As part of a consolidation of EUMETCast channel usage, the channels used for the distribution of SAF data and some other data will change on 25/03/2020. Users should make sure they change their channel configuration in order to be able to continue receiving these data after 25/03/2020. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4884710.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-20 11:24:30.0
Services: IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
IASI Sounding products- Metop-C
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C
EARS-ASCAT
AC SAF - Products
LSA SAF - Products
OSI SAF - Products
ROM SAF - Products
CM SAF - Products
H-SAF - Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5664
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-04-15 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-04-15 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: The EUMETCast channels on which SNPP CrIS and ATMS global and regional data are distributed will change on 15/04/2020. There will be a period of 3 weeks (from 26/03 to 15/04/2020) during which the data will be distributed in parallel on the current channels and the new channels. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4880881.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2020-02-19 14:24:49.0
Services: CrlS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP
ATMS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP
EARS-ATMS
EARS-CrlS

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5159
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-06-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-06-01 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: A new BUFR encoding sequence will be introduced in June 2020 for all EUMETSATM-bM-^@M-^Ys wind products. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below.
Url: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4593260.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-09-11 16:22:14.0
Services: 0M-BM-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-A
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar winds - Metop-C
Multi-Metop Wind Products

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