Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule, Week 16
Date/Time Issued: April 09, 2020 1440Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 09, 2020 1415Z (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:
| Message number: | 6795 |
| Message creation: | Thu Apr 09 14:15:03 UTC 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: | 5 |
| Start Time: | 2020-01-06 00:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-06-29 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. [Rev. 3] End date updated to 19th April 2020.[Rev. 4] End date updated. [Rev. 5] End date updated. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-09 06:53:06.0 |
| Services: |
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A ASCAT Level 1 - 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: | 5574 |
| Rev: | 4 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-07 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-07 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. [Rev. 3] The second phase of the deployment using the changed RSN auxiliary files is further postponed to 7th April 2020. [Rev 4]: The deployment is postponed to a future date. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-03-24 13:50:33.0 |
| Services: |
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-A GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5743 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-09 06:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-05-01 12:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | GOES17 |
| Subject: | instrument-special-operation |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | NOAA will conduct a GOES-West ABI Cooling Timeline test from 9th of April – 1st of May every day between 06:00 to 12:00 UTC. During this test phase, GOES-17 operations mode will change from MODE 6 to MODE 3, and this will affect the GOES-West ABI Level 1B data distribution on EUMETCast. For full details, see the URL provided below. There is a risk of missing or degraded data during this time period. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4930965.html |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-03-19 10:22:14.0 |
| Services: |
GOES Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5807 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-13 14:31:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-13 14:38:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-A |
| Subsystem: | ASCAT |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | Gain Compression |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-08 14:09:39.0 |
| Services: |
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A EARS-ASCAT ASCAT AHRPT Metop-A OSI SAF - Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5806 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-14 04:50:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-14 08:50:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-A |
| Subsystem: | IASI |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | External Calibration |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-08 14:07:49.0 |
| Services: |
IASI Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A EARS-IASI IASI AHRPT Metop-A OSI SAF - Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5804 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-14 08:28:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-14 08:35:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-B |
| Subsystem: | SEM |
| Component: | MEPED |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-08 14:05:29.0 |
| Services: |
SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5802 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-14 08:54:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-14 09:01:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-A |
| Subsystem: | SEM |
| Component: | MEPED |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-08 14:03:40.0 |
| Services: |
SEM L0 - Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5803 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-14 08:54:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-14 10:37:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-A |
| Subsystem: | SEM |
| Component: | TED |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | SEM TED in flight calibration. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-08 14:04:37.0 |
| Services: |
SEM L0 - Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5805 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-14 09:21:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-14 09:28:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-C |
| Subsystem: | SEM |
| Component: | MEPED |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-08 14:06:30.0 |
| Services: |
SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5800 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-15 05:58:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-15 05:59:00.0 |
| Satellites: | MET-8 |
| 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: | 2020-04-08 13:59:34.0 |
| Services: |
IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5799 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-15 07:30:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-15 17:30:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Sentinel-3A,Sentinel-3B |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | risk-of-delay |
| Detail: | Copernicus Online Data Access (CODA) users might experience delays or short interruptions whilst accessing products. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-08 11:02:09.0 |
| Services: |
OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A SRAL L2P Marine Products - S3A OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3B SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3B SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B |
| 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: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5801 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-15 09:58:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-15 09:59:00.0 |
| 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: | 2020-04-08 14:00:24.0 |
| Services: |
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5791 |
| Rev: | 2 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-16 08:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-16 11:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-A |
| Subsystem: | GOME-2 |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | risk-of-degradation |
| Detail: | GOME-2 Level 1B product - switch back to daily solar irradiance measurements. The GOME-2 Level 1B processing will switch back from the solar model to the use of daily solar irradiance measurements. A small impact on Level 2 product quality is possible. [Rev. 2] Details updated. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-09 06:48:30.0 |
| Services: |
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-A |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 5798 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-16 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-16 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | Update to Sentinel-3B OLCI L1 Processing Baseline, bringing improvements in OLCI-B geometric calibration, particularly in the along-track bias and at the camera edges in the across-track direction (especially at the camera 1 and 2 interfaces). |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-08 10:22:55.0 |
| Services: |
OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 5758 |
| Rev: | 2 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-19 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-08-02 00:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-A |
| Subsystem: | GOME-2 |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Detail: | During the indicated period, GOME on Metop-A will perform sun calibrations with an increased frequency alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise rotation of the scanning unit. Data disruptions are not expected but possible. [Rev. 2] End Date/Time updated. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-03 06:47:20.0 |
| Services: |
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-A GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 5762 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-19 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-08-15 09:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-A |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | Metop-A Technology Test Campaign II (two) execution: possible data disruptions or outages. More information will be given in specific instruments announcements. [Rev. 2] End date/time updated. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-02 15:06:03.0 |
| Services: |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 5699 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-22 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-22 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | SNPP CrIS Sensor Data Records (SDRs) will switch to full spectral resolution (FSR) mode on 22/04/2020. This change will affect both the global and regional data. On the same date, the distribution of SNPP CrIS SDRs in the current nominal spectral resolution (NSR) mode will be stopped. For full details and for sample SNPP CrIS FSR data, see the URL provided below. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4901893.html |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-02-28 12:51:04.0 |
| Services: |
CrlS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP EARS-CrlS |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 5781 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-04-22 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-04-22 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | Update to EARS-IASI L2 processing. The configuration of the processing chain for Metop-A has been updated after the irrecoverable degradation of Metop-A/MHS channel 2. This channel is now discarded from the combined microwave-infrared retrieval to recover the product yield and quality from Metop-A. This is implemented in the latest patch of the IASI L2 version 6.5, also deployed in the global processing. The update also involves small changes to the product format. For sample files of the updated EARS-IASI L2 data, please see the FTP link provided below. |
| Url: | ftp://ftp.eumetsat.int/pub/OPS/out/test-data/Test-data-for-External-Users/EARS-IASI-L2_V6.5/ |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-01 12:34:44.0 |
| Services: |
EARS-IASI |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 5797 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-05-27 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2020-05-27 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | Change to SNPP VIIRS AMV BUFR encoding sequence. For full details and sample files using the new BUFR sequence, see the URL provided below. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4939421.html |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-04-08 12:12:35.0 |
| Services: |
VIIRS EDR - Suomi-NPP |
| 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 EUMETSAT’s 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: |
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 |
| Name: | EUMETSAT |
| Address: |
Eumetsat-Allee 1 D-64295 Darmstadt Germany |
| Telephone: | +49 6151 807 3660/3770 |
| Fax: | +49 6151 807 3790 |
| E-mail: | ops@eumetsat.int |
| Internet: | www.eumetsat.int |