Topic: Metop-B Out of Plane Maneuver

Date/Time Issued: October 29, 2018 2225Z

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-B will be temporarily degraded

Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 31, 2018 0830Z

Date/Time of Expected End: October 31, 2018 1515Z

Length of Outage: 6 hours, 45 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change:

A Metop-B Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Oct 31, 2018 (JDAY 304) with preparations starting at 0830Z.

For this maneuver some instruments will not be producing 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 1638Z and 1639Z respectively.

Instrument

Deactivation Time

Normal Operation

AMSU-A1

0830

1419

AMSU-A2

0831

1421

HIRS

0832

1408

IASI

0830

1423

MHS

0832

1413

SEM

0831

1418

GOME

1151

1515

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