Product(s) or Data Impacted: 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-A will be temporarily degraded
Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 21, 2018
(JDAY 080) 0810Z
Date/Time of Expected End: March 21, 2018
(JDAY 080) 1367Z
Length of Outage: ~6 Hours
Details and Specifics of Change:A Metop-A In
Plane Maneuver will be performed March
21, 2018. The SEM instrument will
be placed into Maneuver Mode at 0810 UTC on March 21, 2018 and
returned back to
its Normal Operating Mode at 1357 UTC that same day. Data from the outage period
will not be
recovered nor distributed