Topic: Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 36
Date/Time Issued: August 31, 2023 1148Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 31, 2023 1134Z
Date/Time of Expected End: See list below
Details/Specifics of Change:
| Message number: | 10951 |
| Message creation: | Thu Aug 31 11:34:55 UTC 2023 |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9204 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-31 09:39:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Sentinel-3B |
| Subsystem: | SRAL |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Detail: | Starting 31/01/2023 09:39:49 S3B will start performing SRAL external calibrations over a transponder site in Leonessa. To conduct this transponder pass, the on-board Digital Elevation Model (DEM) altitude value must be temporarily updated in RAM, and is reverted immediately after the pass. A short outage immediately before and after the pass will be introduced, and data should be considered degraded as per non-nominal acquisition mode, for a total duration of approx.27 seconds over the transponder location (42.61607° N, 13.03780° E) for all relative orbits number (RON) 306 - from cycle 75 (inclusive) onwards. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-25 17:19:20.0 |
| Services: | SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9205 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-02-02 10:28:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Sentinel-3B |
| Subsystem: | SRAL |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Detail: | Starting 02/02/2023 10:28:30 S3B will start performing SRAL external calibrations over a corner reflector site in Spain. To conduct this pass, the on-board Digital Elevation Model (DEM) altitude value must be temporarily updated in RAM, and is reverted immediately after the pass. A short outage immediately before and after the pass will be introduced, and data should be considered degraded as per non-nominal acquisition mode, for a total duration of approx.26 seconds over the transponder location (42.052°N, 0.7300° E) for all relative orbits number (RON) 335 - from cycle 75 (inclusive) onwards |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-01-25 17:19:08.0 |
| Services: | SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9258 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-02-14 20:35:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Sentinel-3A |
| Subsystem: | SRAL |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Detail: | Starting 14/02/2023 20:35:57 S3A will start performing SRAL external calibrations over a transponder in Leonessa, Italy. To conduct this transponder pass, the on-board Digital Elevation Model (DEM) altitude value must be temporarily updated in RAM, and is reverted immediately after the pass. A short outage immediately before and after the pass will be introduced, and data should be considered degraded as per non-nominal acquisition mode, for a total duration of approx.28 seconds over the transponder location (42.61607° N, 13.03780° E) for all relative orbits number (RON) 270 from cycle 95 (inclusive) onwards |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-02-08 09:22:43.0 |
| Services: | SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9420 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-03-20 15:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-21 15:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | MET-9 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | From 20/03/2023, the daily Meteosat-9 Upper HRV Window shift time will change from 14:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC to better optimise the illumination for the Spring/Summer season. The 15:00 UTC shift time will remain in place until 21 September 2023 included. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-03-17 08:52:52.0 |
| Services: | IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9447 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-04-12 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | service-change |
| Detail: | Data access from the Data Centre is being migrated to the Data Store, for easier and faster access. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/transition-data-centre-data-store |
| Issue Time: | 2023-03-29 13:44:49.0 |
| Services: | EUMETSAT Data Centre |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9782 |
| Rev: | 3 |
| Start Time: | 2023-07-18 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-06 23:59:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | Event End Time Updated. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Following the release on EUMETCast of Level-1B NOAA-procured Spire Radio Occultation data processed by EUMETSAT, and L2 product generated by the ROM SAF, on 20 June 2023 (see URL provided below for reference), NOAA will switch from Spire to another data provider, PlanetiQ, on 18 July 2023, corresponding to the start of their next 6-month delivery order. As we need to adapt our processor to the new PlanetiQ data, a gap in the provision of NOAA commercial RO data is to be expected starting 18 July. An announcement will be issued as soon as we have a date for the start of dissemination of the new PlanetiQ data. [Rev.1] ROM SAF will restart providing L2 RO data based on NOAA L1B Commercial Radio Occultation data (this time based on PlanetIQ input) on the 21 August 2023. [Rev.2] Please disregard the previous updated message. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/noaa-procured-radio-occultation-data-eumetcast-soon |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-31 11:16:50.0 |
| Services: | ROM SAF - Products Commercial Radio Occultation data |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9846 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-07-25 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | As the public release of the new MTG-I1 data is approaching, with the distribution of pre-operational FCI L1c data currently planned for October 2023, we have released a dedicated web page capturing all users need to know to get ready for accessing and using the data. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/getting-ready-data-first-mtg-missions |
| Issue Time: | 2023-07-26 14:35:41.0 |
| Services: |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9838 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-08-09 20:15:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-30 23:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | MET-9 |
| Subject: | eclipse-season |
| Impact: | risk-of-degradation |
| Detail: | There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 20:15 to 23:00 in the given time period. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-07-27 06:46:45.0 |
| Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9839 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-08-23 23:15:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-10-12 02:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | MET-10 |
| Subject: | eclipse-season |
| Impact: | risk-of-degradation |
| Detail: | There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 23:15 to 02:00 next day in the given time period. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-07-27 06:47:05.0 |
| Services: | 0° SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9940 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-08-28 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2024-01-01 00:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-C |
| Subsystem: | ASCAT |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | 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 Madrid |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-23 14:57:08.0 |
| Services: | ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9840 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-08-28 22:30:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-10-15 00:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | MET-11 |
| Subject: | eclipse-season |
| Impact: | risk-of-degradation |
| Detail: | There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 22:30 to 01:30 next day in the given time period. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-07-27 14:26:59.0 |
| Services: | RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9957 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-02 11:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-02 11:10:00.0 |
| Satellites: | GOES-16 |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Detail: | A GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 2 September 2023. Between 11:00 and 11:05 UTC GOES-16 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_G16_s2023245110[SSS]_e20232451115[SSS]_c202324511[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 11:10 UTC |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-28 07:58:42.0 |
| Services: | GOES Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9942 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-03 14:21:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-04 08:04:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-B |
| Subsystem: | IASI |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | External Calibration (Moon intrusion) |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-24 11:41:07.0 |
| Services: | IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-B EARS-IASI OSI SAF - Products IASI AHRPT Metop-B |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9943 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-03 15:14:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-04 08:57:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-C |
| Subsystem: | IASI |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | External Calibration. (Moon Intrusion). |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-24 11:53:37.0 |
| Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-C IASI Sounding products- Metop-C EARS-IASI IASI AHRPT Metop-C OSI SAF - Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9946 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-04 15:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-04 15:10:00.0 |
| Satellites: | GOES-18 |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Detail: | A GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 4 September 2023. Between 15:00 and 15:05 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_s20232471500[SSS]_e20232471505[SSS]_c202324715[mmssSSS]-136002_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 15:10 UTC. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-25 09:43:45.0 |
| Services: | GOES Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9944 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-05 07:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-07 15:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | Lannion Station Antenna Chains - MEOS Server Upgrades v5.4.5. There may be disruption to the listed EUMETSAT based services during the maintenance period daily between 07:00 and 15:00 UTC. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-24 12:02:41.0 |
| Services: | EARS-AVHRR EARS-MWRI EARS-ATOVS EARS-ASCAT EARS-IASI EARS-ATMS EARS-NWC EARS-CrlS EARS-VIIRS EARS-MERSI EARS-VASS |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9961 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-05 08:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-07 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: | 2023-08-30 14:37:10.0 |
| Services: | Data Store and Data Tailor Web Service |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9959 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-05 08:44:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-05 08:51:00.0 |
| 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: | 2023-08-30 14:30:52.0 |
| Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9960 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-05 08:44:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-05 10:27:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-C |
| Subsystem: | SEM |
| Component: | TED |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | SEM TED in flight calibration. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-30 14:31:30.0 |
| Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9779 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-05 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-26 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | The current Sentinel-3 Altimetry product for Africa will be replaced by a new Sentinel-3 land hydrology thematic product at the end of September 2023 (exact date to be announced). To facilitate user transition to the new product, both current and new products will be distributed in parallel for a period of three weeks, from 5 to 26 September 2023. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/sentinel-3-altimetry-product-africa-be-replaced |
| Issue Time: | 2023-07-12 09:42:15.0 |
| Services: |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9958 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-05 09:32:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-05 09:39:00.0 |
| 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: | 2023-08-30 14:30:08.0 |
| Services: | SEM AHRPT Metop-B SEM L0 - Metop-B |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9962 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-07 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-07 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | Following the release on EUMETCast of Level-1B NOAA-procured Spire Radio Occultation data processed by EUMETSAT, and L2 product generated by the ROM SAF, on 20 June 2023, NOAA switched from Spire to another data provider, PlanetiQ, on 18 July 2023, corresponding to the start of their next 6-month delivery order. L1 and L2 processors have now been adapted to the new PlanetiQ data by EUMETSAT Central Facility and ROM SAF, respectively. Both L1B and L2 PlanetiQ data will start being distributed via EUMETCast Europe and EUMETCast Terrestrial from 7 September 2023. |
| Revision History: | |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-30 15:48:44.0 |
| Services: | Commercial Radio Occultation NOAA |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9730 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-11 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-11 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | Change of date from 31 July to 11 September 2023. |
| Revision History: | [Original] The EUMETCast Terrestrial service will undergo reorganisation on 31 July 2023. This change is intended to optimise the bandwidth usage on the service. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetcast-terrestrial-reorganisation |
| Issue Time: | 2023-06-29 13:05:36.0 |
| Services: | EUMETCast-Terrestrial |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9748 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-12 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-12 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | The distribution of two IODC H SAF Precipitation products on EUMETCast Africa will be stopped on 12 September 2023. The products are: H63 'Precipitation rate at ground by GEO/IR supported by LEO/MW - IODC' and H90 'Accumulated Precipitation at ground by blended MW and IR - IODC'. This is due to EUMETCast Africa bandwidth considerations. |
| Revision History: | |
| Issue Time: | 2023-06-28 13:51:44.0 |
| Services: | H-SAF - Products |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9921 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-09-28 12:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-09-28 13:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | Training Session on how to access the data during the transition from Eumetsat Data Centre to Data Store. For more information please refer to the URL link below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/data-access-services-how-interact-data-access-apis-through-swagger-ui |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2023-08-17 11:52:58.0 |
| Services: |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9778 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-10-12 11:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-11-16 14:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | A series of sessions to provide training on using the Data Tailor is scheduled between 12 October and 16 November 2023. For full details and to register for the sessions, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/customise-data-tailor-products |
| Issue Time: | 2023-07-11 13:41:16.0 |
| Services: |
| 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 |
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