Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 3 Issue 3 (Addition of Announcement 9188)
Date/Time Issued: January 17, 2023 1343Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 17, 2023 1221Z
Date/Time of Expected End: See list Below
Details/Specifics of Change:
| Message number: | 10215 |
| Message creation: | Tue Jan 17 12:21:54 UTC 2023 |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 7582 |
| Rev: | 10 |
| Start Time: | 2021-12-07 00:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-03-31 00:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-C |
| Subsystem: | ASCAT |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | Event End date updated. Users should be aware that in addition to Turkey, passes over Spain are also affected. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Calibrations to support transponder test.. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. [Rev. 2] Event End date updated. [Rev. 3] Event End date updated. [Rev.4] Event End date updated. [Rev.5] Event End date updated [Rev.6] Event End date updated [Rev.7] Event End date updated [Rev.8] Event End date updated. [Rev.9] Event End date updated. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-11 16:30:54.0 |
| Services: | ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9175 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-16 07:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-31 15:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | Planned maintenance activity on Data Store and Data Tailor. Services may become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-11 10:25:48.0 |
| Services: | Data Store and Data Tailor Web Service |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8880 |
| Rev: | 4 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-16 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-16 12:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | The update of the ASCAT regional wind products (EARS-ASCAT) will take place on 16 January 2023. There will be a risk of outage during the indicated time period. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Release of a new version of ASCAT Level 1 PPF (Product Processing Facility), v11.3. For full details and test data, see the URL provided below. [Rev.1] The update of the ASCAT regional wind products is being deferred to a later date (to be announced soon). [Rev.2] The update of the ASCAT regional wind products will take place on 1 December 2022. [Rev.3] The update of the ASCAT regional wind products needs to be postponed again due to unforeseen issues. A new date will be announced soon. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/update-ascat-level-1-processing |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-10 17:15:54.0 |
| Services: | ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C EARS-ASCAT OSI SAF - Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9181 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-16 16:15:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-16 18:55:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-B |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | risk-of-delay |
| Detail: | McMurdo Maintenance. The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system may be impacted during the following maintenance period. Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness may be available during this period. The maintenance period is the following: on DOY 016/16 January: 1615-1715Z and 1755-1855Z. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-11 13:38:51.0 |
| Services: | AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B SEM L0 - Metop-B MHS Level 1 - Metop-B HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B Multi-Metop Wind Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9177 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-17 08:24:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-17 08:31:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-C |
| Subsystem: | SEM |
| Component: | MEPED |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-11 10:32:24.0 |
| Services: | SEM AHRPT Metop-C SEM L0 - Metop-C |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9179 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-17 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-20 09:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | MET-10 |
| Subject: | monthly-RSS-interruption |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | Monthly interruption. Meteosat-10 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. Please note that the interruption will last 72 hours instead of the usual 48 hours, due to a special test. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-12 12:05:37.0 |
| Services: | RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9180 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-17 09:06:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-17 09:08:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Sentinel-3B |
| Subsystem: | OLCI |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-11 10:52:14.0 |
| Services: | OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3B |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9176 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-17 09:13:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-17 09:20:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-B |
| Subsystem: | SEM |
| Component: | MEPED |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-11 10:31:19.0 |
| Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9173 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-17 13:09:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-17 13:17:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Sentinel-6A |
| Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Detail: | The altitude information in the altimetry products may be degraded during the manoeuvre. The radiometer data in the radiometer and altimetry products may be degraded for the duration between the attitude mode transitions. This will affect the sea surface height, but not the wind and wave content in the altimetry products. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-11 08:20:58.0 |
| Services: | NRT Microwave AMR L2 Products - S6A NRT Altimetry LR L2 Products - S6A NRT Altimetry HR L2 Products - S6A NRT P4 HR L2P (SLA) - S6A STC Altimetry LR L2 Products - S6A STC Altimetry LR L1B Products - S6A STC Microwave AMR L2 Products - S6A STC Altimetry HR L1A Products - S6A STC Altimetry HR L1B Products - S6A STC Altimetry HR L2 Products - S6A STC P4 HR L2P (SLA) - S6A STC P4 HR L3 (SLA) - S6A NTC Altimetry LR L1B Products - S6A NTC Altimetry HR L2 Products - S6A NTC Altimetry LR L2 Products - S6A NTC Altimetry HR L1B Products - S6A NTC Altimetry HR L1A Products - S6A NTC Microwave AMR L2 Products - S6A NTC P4 LR L2P (SLA) - S6A NTC P4 HR L2P (SLA) - S6A |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9174 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-18 07:05:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-18 07:16:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Sentinel-3A |
| Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Detail: | Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-11 09:58:53.0 |
| Services: | SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3A SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9150 |
| Rev: | 3 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-18 12:49:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-18 12:50:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-C |
| Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Revision History: | [Original] Routine in-plane manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. The exact burn time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. [Rev.1] Manoeuvre Execution time updated. Burn time: 12:49:46 UTC. Duration 6.978 seconds. [Rev.2] Details updated to reflect outages per instrument: SEM from 08:24 to 14:11 UTC and GOME from 11:47 to 13:28 UTC. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-13 09:03:21.0 |
| Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-C AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-C MHS Level 1 - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C IASI Level 1 - Metop-C GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-C GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C A-DCS AHRPT Metop-C AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-C ASCAT AHRPT Metop-C AVHRR AHRPT Metop-C GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-C GRAS AHRPT Metop-C IASI AHRPT Metop-C MHS AHRPT Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8979 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-19 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-19 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | The release is deferred to 19 January 2023. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Release of a new processor version for Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Radio Occultation Non Time Critical (NTC) data, RO-NTC v3.7. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/new-processor-version-sentinel-6-radio-occultation-data-dec2022 |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-06 15:12:24.0 |
| Services: | NTC Radio Occultation RO L1B Products - S6A |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9188 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-19 10:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-19 11:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | Maintenance of EUMETCast Europe service is planned on 19/01/2023 from 10:00 UTC to 11:00 UTC. No impact is expected but a low risk of interruption on EUMETCast Europe High Volume Service on Transponder 2 cannot be excluded. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-17 11:15:17.0 |
| Services: | EUMETCast-Europe |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9185 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-19 14:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-19 16:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | EARS Kangerlussuaq and Gander Stations Maintenance. There may be disruption to the listed EUMETSAT based services. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-13 14:55:31.0 |
| Services: | EARS-ATOVS EARS-ASCAT EARS-MWRI EARS-AVHRR EARS-NWC EARS-IASI EARS-CrlS EARS-ATMS EARS-VIIRS EARS-VASS EARS-MERSI |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9182 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-19 19:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-19 19:10:00.0 |
| Satellites: | GOES-18 |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Detail: | A GOES-18 ABI routine desert monitoring calibration scan is planned on 19 January 2023 from 19:00 UTC to 19:05 UTC. Between 19:05 UTC and 19:10 UTC GOES-18 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G18_s20230191905[SSS]_e20230191910[SSS]_c202301919[mmssSSS]-136002_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 19:10 UTC |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-12 11:58:45.0 |
| Services: | GOES Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9183 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-20 15:20:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-20 15:30:00.0 |
| Satellites: | GOES-18 |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Detail: | A GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 20 January 2023. Between 15:20 and 15:25 UTC GOES-18 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G18_s20230201520[SSS]_e202230201525[SSS]_c202302015[mmssSSS]-136002_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 15:30 UTC. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-12 12:03:29.0 |
| Services: | GOES Products |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9086 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-26 13:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-26 14:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | As part of a series of monthly open, online short sessions on EUMETSAT's data access services, the next session will take place on 26 January 2023 and will focus on how to use EUMETView's latest features. For more details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/data-access-services-eumetview-new-features |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-07 17:05:42.0 |
| Services: |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8982 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-30 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-30 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | new-product |
| Detail: | The release is being deferred to early 2023, with exact date to be announced soon. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Release of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich L3 Non-Time Critical (NTC) products. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/release-sentinel-6-l2p-and-l3-ntc-products |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-14 13:09:08.0 |
| Services: |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8794 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-31 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-31 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | A sub-set of precipitation products from the H SAF will be discontinued on 31 January 2023. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/h-saf-precipitation-products-be-discontinued |
| Issue Time: | 2022-10-19 16:05:17.0 |
| Services: | H-SAF - Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9178 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-02-01 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-02-01 09:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-B |
| Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Detail: | Routine in-plane manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. The exact burn time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-11 10:34:41.0 |
| Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B MHS Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B ASCAT AHRPT Metop-B A-DCS AHRPT Metop-B AVHRR AHRPT Metop-B AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-B GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-B GRAS AHRPT Metop-B HIRS AHRPT Metop-B MHS AHRPT Metop-B IASI AHRPT Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9184 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-02-08 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-02-08 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | Update to SNPP/NOAA-20 OMPS Ozone Nadir Profile product. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/update-omps-ozone-nadir-profile-product |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-13 11:32:00.0 |
| Services: | SNPP - JPSS Copernicus data |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9166 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-02-16 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-02-16 12:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-B |
| Subsystem: | IASI |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | IASI TOP upload (on-board processing update). Users should expect an instrument outage of around 50 minute at some point during this period. We will up-date the on board reduced spectra. The exact time will be announced closer to the event. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-06 10:00:44.0 |
| Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-B |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 7033 |
| Rev: | 10 |
| Start Time: | 2023-02-28 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-02-28 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | The update has been deferred to 28 February 2023. |
| Revision History: | [Rev.1] Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated in November 2021 (exact date to be announced in due course). For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: The update is being deferred to Q1 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. [Rev. 3]: A live test data stream has been put in place. For details on how to access the data and how to use them, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 4]: The update is being deferred to Q4 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. [Rev.5] New date: Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated on 15 August 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev.6] New date: Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated in mid-November 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev.7] The update will take place on 24 November 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev.8] The update has been deferred to 7 December 2022. [Rev.9] The update has been deferred to January 2023, with exact date to be announced later. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/changes-pc-compressed-iasi-l1c-data |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-22 13:38:57.0 |
| Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-C |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8993 |
| Rev: | 2 |
| Start Time: | 2023-02-28 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-02-28 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | The release is being deferred to 28 February 2023. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Release of a new version of IASI Level 2 Product Processing Facility (PPF), v6.7. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev.1] The release is being deferred to January 2023, with exact date to be announced later. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/release-iasi-level-2-ppf-version-67 |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-22 13:43:35.0 |
| Services: | IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B IASI Sounding products- Metop-C |
| 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 |