Product(s) Involved/Affected: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS, SEM, in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service, will not be available.
The AVHRR GDS Level 1 products and AVHRR regional data from Metop-C will be temporarily degraded
Details/Specifics of Change: A Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver was performed on Sep 27, 2023 (JDAY 270) with preparations starting at 08:07 UTC. For this maneuver some instruments did not produce data.
The data outage times are listed below. Data from the outage period will not be recovered nor distributed. The manual selection of optimal TED and MEPED calibrations for the SEM
instrument will be performed at 16:14:53 UTC.
Instrument |
Deactivation Time |
Normal Operation |
AMSU-A1 |
08:07:16 |
14:04:02 |
AMSU-A2 |
08:07:16 |
14:04:02 |
HIRS |
N/A |
N/A |
IASI |
08:07:16 |
14:04:02 |
MHS |
08:07:16 |
14:04:02 |
SEM |
08:07:16 |
14:04:02 |
GOME |
11:24:08 |
14:47:55 |
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