Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 50

Date/Time Issued: December 05, 2019 1619Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.

Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 05, 2019 1601Z (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)

Date/Time of Expected End: See table in detail for on and off switch time

Length of Outage: N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:

Message number: 6455
Message creation: Thu Dec 05 16:01:30 GMT+00:00 2019


Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 4920
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: There is an issue with the latest EUMETCast software package, affecting Linux operating systems when the Tellicast client software (version 2.14.5) is used in combination with the Safenet drivers. A new alpha version of Tellicast, with a fix of the issue, is available for download. See the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4451027.html
Issue Time: 2019-06-27 11:18:18.0
Services:



Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5355
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-14 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-04-15 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: GOME-2
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: risk-of-degradation
Detail: The Metop-A satellite with GOME-2 on-board is currently in drifting orbit. As a consequence there are periods during which the GOME-2 instrument is not able to carry out its daily solar calibration measurement. The third such period will be from 14 November 2019 to 14 April 2020. During this period, the solar mean reference spectrum provided in the Metop-A GOME-2 level-1B product will be automatically replaced by a modelled solar spectrum using information on solar activity from Metop-B. Therefore, it is expected that the quality of both level-1B and level-2 products might undergo slight changes during this period, and there will be an associated risk of degraded product quality for Metop-A GOME-2 products.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-11-29 07:48:28.0
Services: GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-A
GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A
AC SAF - Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5323
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2019-11-18 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-16 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: ASCAT
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Calibrations to support transponder test. Outages of products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. [Rev. 2]: End date updated.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-11-13 14:58:20.0
Services: ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5398
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-03 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-12 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-delay
Detail: McMurdo HDR receiver replacement will be performed. There is a risk of interruption to the enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system in this period. Therefore there is a risk of only nominal Arctic timeliness being available in this period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-11-27 15:43:35.0
Services: AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B
SEM L0 - Metop-B
AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B
MHS Level 1 - Metop-B
HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B
ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
Multi-Metop Wind Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5402
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-04 14:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-02-26 14:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: risk-of-degradation
Detail: Drift to a new orbital position. During this period, Metop-C will not be following the reference orbit, with a drifting ground track and phase with respect to Metop-B. Some instrument products may be degraded. A small impact on the number and quality of AVHRR wind products might be observed during this period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-11-29 08:41:07.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-C
AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-C
IASI Sounding products- Metop-C
AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-C
MHS Level 1 - Metop-C
Multi-sensor Products - Metop-C
IASI Level 1 - Metop-C
EARS-ATOVS
EARS-AVHRR
EARS-IASI
AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-C
A-DCS AHRPT Metop-C
AVHRR AHRPT Metop-C
HIRS AHRPT Metop-C
IASI AHRPT Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C
MHS AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5411
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-05 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: Update to the Medium Resolution Sea Ice Drift product (OSI-407-a) from OSI SAF. The new version re-introduces an ice mask to limit areas in which to compute ice drift. This removes outliers along the ice edge and in coastal zones. Furthermore, the code has been optimized to reduce processing time. The data format is unchanged. Sample files along with their metadata can be found here: ftp://ftp.dmi.dk/sat/.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-03 14:36:58.0
Services: OSI SAF - Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5424
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-09 05:12:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-09 09:12:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: External Calibration
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 13:32:38.0
Services: IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
EARS-IASI
IASI AHRPT Metop-B
OSI SAF - Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5392
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-09 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-09 09:00:00.0
Subject: new-product
Detail: New Sentinel-5P Aerosol Layer Height product to be available on EUMETCast Europe. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4741227.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-11-27 12:22:18.0
Services: Sentinel-5P

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5404
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-09 10:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-09 10:20:00.0
Satellites: MET-8
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Due to ground segment maintenance there is a risk of interruption of the IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 image data and IODC meteorological products for the 10:00 UTC repeat cycle.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-11-29 10:54:25.0
Services: IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5425
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-09 14:11:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-09 14:18:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: ASCAT
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Gain Compression
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 13:34:50.0
Services: ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
EARS-ASCAT
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-B
OSI SAF - Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5426
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-10 08:34:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-10 08:41:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 13:35:49.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5423
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-10 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-10 09:07:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 13:31:02.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5422
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-10 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
Satellites: MET-10
Subject: monthly-RSS-interruption
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Monthly interruption. Meteosat-10 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. Meteosat-9 RSS image data, rectified to 9.5 deg E, replaces the Meteosat-10 service. The RSS meteorological product service is not available during this timeframe. An outage of 15 minutes (or slightly more) can be expected when switching to and from Meteosat-9.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 13:22:47.0
Services: RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5427
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-10 09:40:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-10 09:47:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 13:36:53.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5428
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-10 09:40:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-10 11:23:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: SEM
Component: TED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 13:54:40.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5391
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2019-12-11 11:47:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-11 12:22:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A
Subject: out-of-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: The exact times will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. [Rev. 2] Event Start and End times revised. Reduced data quality for OLCI and SRAL should be expected for data sensed during this period. Reduced data quality for SLSTR can be expected from XX:XX to XX:XX
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 12:36:56.0
Services: OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5420
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-11 20:28:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-11 20:31:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A
Subsystem: SRAL
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-03 12:43:18.0
Services: SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5353
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2019-12-12 08:56:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-12 13:05:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: IASI TOP upload to update the reduced spectra for the on-board processing. Users should expect an instrument outage of around 50 minutes at some point on that day. The exact time will be announced closer to the event. [Rev:2] Event start time and Event end time updated.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 14:05:43.0
Services: IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
EARS-IASI
IASI AHRPT Metop-B
OSI SAF - Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5293
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
Subject: service-change
Detail: Regional EARS data from the USA will no longer be available on EUMETCast from 12/12/2019. For more details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4682634.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-23 12:49:46.0
Services: EARS-ATOVS

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5429
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-18 12:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-18 12:00:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3B
Subject: in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: The exact times will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-05 10:15:27.0
Services: OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B
OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3B
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3B
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5421
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-03-02 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-03-02 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: The NOAA Direct Broadcast Real-Time Network (DBRTN) data, currently distributed on EUMETCast, will be removed on 2 March 2020. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4759427.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-12-04 11:30:54.0
Services: NDB (NOAA Direct Broadcast)

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5159
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-06-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-06-01 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: A new BUFR encoding sequence will be introduced in June 2020 for all EUMETSATM-bM-^@M-^Ys wind products. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below.
Url: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4593260.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-09-11 16:22:14.0
Services: 0M-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-A
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar winds - Metop-C
Multi-Metop Wind Products

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