Topic: Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver

Date/Time Issued: Sep 29, 2023  05:21 UTC

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

     
Date/Time (UTC) Initial Implementation:  Sep 27, 2023 (JDAY 270) 08:07 UTC

Date/Time (UTC) Expected End:              Sep 27, 2023 (JDAY 270) 14:48 UTC

Length of Outage:                                     ~ 6.5 hours

 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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