Topic: Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 51
   
Date/Time Issued: December 10, 2020  1623Z
     
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.

Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 10, 2020 1549Z  (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:7461
Message creation:Thu Dec 10 15:49:53 UTC 2020


Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:5475
Rev:10
Start Time:2020-01-06 00:00:00.0
End Time:2021-04-01 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. [Rev. 3] End date updated to 19th April 2020.[Rev. 4] End date updated. [Rev. 5] End date updated. [Rev. 6] End date updated. [Rev 7] End date updated. [Rev 8] End date updated. [Rev 9] End date updated. [Rev. 10] End date updated.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-11-27 12:17:02.0
Services:ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:5596
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-01-29 00:00:00.0
End Time:2021-12-31 23:59:00.0
Satellites:Metop-A
Subsystem:HRPT
Subject:general-announcement
Impact:data-unavailable
Detail:HRPT switching zone drift. Risk of interruption. The Metop-A satellite is currently in drifting orbit. As a consequence the geographical zones, defined to control the switching times of the satellite HRPT system, are drifting westwards at a rate of 0.02 degree per day. Users near the borders of switching zones might experience small changes in their acquisition times of the HRPT signal. On-board timings will be updated approximately every 8 months to compensate for the drift geolocation. A dedicated announcement will be issued in advance of each of these updates.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-02-03 10:12:03.0
Services:A-DCS AHRPT Metop-A
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-A
AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-A
AVHRR AHRPT Metop-A
IASI AHRPT Metop-A
HIRS AHRPT Metop-A
GRAS AHRPT Metop-A
MHS AHRPT Metop-A
GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type:Service Enhancement
Ann Nr:6159
Rev:2
Start Time:2020-08-05 09:00:00.0
End Time:2020-08-05 09:00:00.0
Subject:general-announcement
Detail:Tellicast client software release 2.14.6 is now available for Windows and Linux. For details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: URL updated, following the launch of the new EUMETSAT website on 16 November 2020.
Url:https://www.eumetsat.int/new-tellicast-client-software-packages
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-11-16 08:33:06.0
Services:

Type:Service Enhancement
Ann Nr:6259
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-09-15 00:00:00.0
End Time:2021-05-15 00:00:00.0
Satellites:NOAA-15,NOAA-19
Subsystem:AVHRR
Subject:general-announcement
Detail:NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) engineers will activate switching for NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 AVHRR Channel 3A / 3B for the period of 15 September 2020 to 14 May 2021. Switching to Channel 3A will occur during this period over the predefined box encompassing the Alaska Region (box coordinates 50°N to 75°N and 173°E to 135°W). NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 AVHRR will switch between Channel 3B and Channel 3A to support snow and ice detection and monitoring activities over Alaska Region. For more details please refer to the URL link below.
Url:https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2020/MSG258010404.html
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-09-15 10:11:37.0
Services:AVHRR Level 1 - NOAA
EARS-AVHRR

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6467
Rev:2
Start Time:2020-12-09 07:22:00.0
End Time:2020-12-14 10:00:00.0
Satellites:Metop-C
Subsystem:IASI
Subject:instrument-decontamination
Impact:data-unavailable
Detail:200K IASI decontamination including new TOP upload. New CS coding table will be uploaded for the Moon Acquisition. The reduced spectra will be also updated. Interruptions will be observed during the activity. The exact time will be announced closer to the event. [Rev. 2] Start and End time updated.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-10 09:03:35.0
Services:IASI Sounding products- Metop-C
IASI Level 1 - Metop-C
EARS-IASI
IASI AHRPT Metop-C

Type:Service Enhancement
Ann Nr:6508
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-10 09:00:00.0
End Time:2020-12-10 09:00:00.0
Subject:product-change
Detail:Release of a new Processing Baseline, PB 2.74A/1.52B, for Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 1. This Processing Baseline introduces in OLCI Level-1 processing a regular use of most recent dark measurements to limit the impact of periodic noise in the dark signal. It also includes updates in geometric calibration parameters for the year 2021 and in meteo data interpolation.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-08 13:37:10.0
Services:OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6499
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-13 23:00:00.0
End Time:2020-12-14 05:00:00.0
Subject:ground-segment-maintenance
Impact:risk-of-interruption
Detail:EARS Kangerlussuaq Core Station Data line Maintenance. There may be disruption to all imager based services during the maintenance period.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-03 08:32:43.0
Services:EARS-ASCAT
EARS-IASI
EARS-ATOVS
EARS-AVHRR
EARS-ATMS
EARS-CrlS
EARS-NWC
EARS-VIIRS
EARS-VASS
EARS-MERSI

Type:Service Enhancement
Ann Nr:6484
Rev:2
Start Time:2020-12-14 09:00:00.0
End Time:2020-12-14 09:00:00.0
Subject:product-change
Detail:Release of a new Processing Baseline, i2r71-MARINE, for the Sentinel-3 SLSTR SST products. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: Change of date.
Url:https://www.eumetsat.int/new-sentinel-3-slstr-processing-baseline-released-soon
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-03 15:40:09.0
Services:SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6528
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-14 13:48:00.0
End Time:2020-12-14 13:54:00.0
Satellites:Metop-C
Subsystem:ASCAT
Subject:instrument-calibration
Impact:data-unavailable
Detail:Gain Compression
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:56:54.0
Services:ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C
EARS-ASCAT
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-C
OSI SAF - Products

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6529
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-15 04:30:00.0
End Time:2020-12-18 16:30:00.0
Satellites:Metop-B
Subject:ground-segment-maintenance
Impact:data-delayed
Detail:McMurdo Black Island annual Maintenance. The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system will be interrupted. Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness will be available during the following periods: from 15 to 18 December 2020, daily between 04:30 and 16:30 UTC.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 14:00:48.0
Services:SEM L0 - Metop-B
AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B
AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B
MHS Level 1 - Metop-B
HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B
ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B
Multi-Metop Wind Products

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6527
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-15 08:11:00.0
End Time:2020-12-15 08:18:00.0
Satellites:Metop-C
Subsystem:SEM
Component:MEPED
Subject:instrument-calibration
Impact:data-unavailable
Detail:SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:55:42.0
Services:SEM L0 - Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6525
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-15 08:59:00.0
End Time:2020-12-15 09:06:00.0
Satellites:Metop-B
Subsystem:SEM
Component:MEPED
Subject:instrument-calibration
Impact:data-unavailable
Detail:SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:53:07.0
Services:SEM L0 - Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6523
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-15 09:25:00.0
End Time:2020-12-15 09:32:00.0
Satellites:Metop-A
Subsystem:SEM
Component:MEPED
Subject:instrument-calibration
Impact:data-unavailable
Detail:SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:51:16.0
Services:SEM L0 - Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6524
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-15 09:25:00.0
End Time:2020-12-15 11:08:00.0
Satellites:Metop-A
Subsystem:SEM
Component:TED
Subject:instrument-calibration
Impact:data-unavailable
Detail:SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:52:09.0
Services:SEM L0 - Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6520
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-15 10:50:00.0
End Time:2020-12-15 11:00:00.0
Satellites:GOES-16
Subject:instrument-calibration
Detail:A GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 15 December 2020 at the indicated times. From 10:50 to 10:55 UTC, GOES-16 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G16_s20203501050[SSS]_e20203501055[SSS]_c202035010[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. From 10:55 to 11:00 UTC, no ABI data will be available. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 11:00 UTC.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:24:33.0
Services:GOES Products

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6521
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-15 16:00:00.0
End Time:2020-12-15 16:10:00.0
Satellites:GOES-16
Subject:instrument-calibration
Detail:A GOES-16 ABI routine desert monitoring calibration scan is planned on 15 December 2020 at the indicated times. As a result, no ABI data will be available from 16:00 to 16:05 UTC. From 16:05 to 16:10 UTC, GOES-16 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G16_s20203501605[SSS]_e20203501610[SSS]_c202035016[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 16:10 UTC
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:23:32.0
Services:GOES Products

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6522
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-15 21:58:00.0
End Time:2020-12-15 21:59:00.0
Satellites:MET-8
Subject:in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact:data-degraded
Detail:East-West Station Keeping Manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded image quality and degraded meteorological product quality up to a few hours after the manoeuvre.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:49:19.0
Services:IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6519
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-16 07:49:00.0
End Time:2020-12-16 08:00:00.0
Satellites:Sentinel-3B
Subject:in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact:data-degraded
Detail:Reduced data quality for SRAL should be expected for data sensed during this period. Reduced data quality for SLSTR can be expected from approximately 07:39 to 09:46
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:35:08.0
Services:SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3B
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B
SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3B
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6530
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-16 11:00:00.0
End Time:2020-12-16 17:00:00.0
Satellites:Metop-B
Subject:ground-segment-maintenance
Impact:risk-of-interruption
Detail:Comms link Maintenance. The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system might be interrupted. Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness might be available during this period
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 14:34:04.0
Services:AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
SEM L0 - Metop-B
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B
ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B
HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B
MHS Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6518
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-16 11:28:00.0
End Time:2020-12-16 12:06:00.0
Satellites:Sentinel-3A
Subject:out-of-plane-manoeuvre
Impact:data-degraded
Detail:Reduced data quality for SRAL should be expected for data sensed during this period. Reduced data quality for SLSTR can be expected from approximately 11:18 to 15:24
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:37:44.0
Services:SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6534
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-17 10:00:00.0
End Time:2020-12-17 13:00:00.0
Subject:ground-segment-maintenance
Impact:risk-of-delay
Detail:LSA SAF ground segment maintenance. There is a high risk of delays on the MSG products during the maintenance period.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-10 09:42:33.0
Services:LSA SAF - Products

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6531
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-18 07:00:00.0
End Time:2020-12-18 13:00:00.0
Satellites:Metop-B
Subject:ground-segment-maintenance
Impact:risk-of-interruption
Detail:Comms link Maintenance. The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system might be interrupted. Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness might be available during this period.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 14:36:37.0
Services:AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B
AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B
MHS Level 1 - Metop-B
SEM L0 - 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
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6526
Rev:1
Start Time:2020-12-20 05:12:00.0
End Time:2020-12-20 09:12:00.0
Satellites:Metop-B
Subsystem:IASI
Subject:instrument-calibration
Impact:data-unavailable
Detail:External Calibration
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 13:54:19.0
Services:IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
IASI AHRPT Metop-B
EARS-IASI
OSI SAF - Products

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6532
Rev:1
Start Time:2021-01-14 08:00:00.0
End Time:2021-01-14 17:00:00.0
Satellites:Metop-B
Subject:ground-segment-maintenance
Impact:no-impact
Detail:Routine update of Metop-B IASI ground configuration files. The purpose is to update the scan mirror reflectivity coefficients. No impact on the data is expected.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 14:46:36.0
Services:IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
EARS-IASI

Type:Service Enhancement
Ann Nr:5159
Rev:6
Start Time:2021-01-20 09:00:00.0
End Time:2021-01-20 09:00:00.0
Subject:product-change
Detail:A new BUFR encoding sequence will be introduced in June 2020 for all EUMETSAT’s wind products. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: Date changed to 7 October 2020. To facilitate user transition, AMV products encoded in the new BUFR sequence will be distributed on the GTS in parallel to the currently operational AMV products, from 15 July until 6 October 2020. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 3]: Date changed to mid-January 2021. Exact date will be announced in due course. Periods of parallel dissemination on the GTS have also been updated. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 4]: Dates of parallel dissemination on the GTS have been updated for the AMV products from Meteosat-8 and Meteosat-11. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 5]: Date updated to 20 January 2021. [Rev. 6]: URL updated, following the launch of the new EUMETSAT website on 16 November 2020.
Url:https://www.eumetsat.int/new-bufr-wind-products
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-11-16 08:36:06.0
Services: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

Type:Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr:6533
Rev:1
Start Time:2021-01-21 08:00:00.0
End Time:2021-01-21 17:00:00.0
Satellites:Metop-C
Subject:ground-segment-maintenance
Impact:no-impact
Detail:Routine update of Metop-C IASI ground configuration files. The purpose is to update the scan mirror reflectivity coefficients. No impact on the data is expected.
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-12-09 14:46:15.0
Services:IASI Level 1 - Metop-C
EARS-IASI

Type:Service Enhancement
Ann Nr:6480
Rev:1
Start Time:2021-02-01 09:00:00.0
End Time:2021-02-01 09:00:00.0
Subject:service-change
Detail:From 01/02/2021, the EUMETCast Europe restoration (back-up) capacity will be migrated from EUTELSAT 21B to Hotbird 13. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url:https://www.eumetsat.int/migration-eumetcast-europe-restoration-capacity-hotbird-13
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-11-26 11:53:37.0
Services:EUMETCast-Europe

Type:Service Enhancement
Ann Nr:6269
Rev:2
Start Time:2021-07-29 09:00:00.0
End Time:2021-07-29 09:00:00.0
Subject:service-change
Detail:Sentinel-3 OLCI Level-1 Full Resolution Near Real Time data will be removed from EUMETCast Satellite on 29 July 2021. Alternative services to access these data are available. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: URL updated, following the launch of the new EUMETSAT website on 16 November 2020.
Url:https://www.eumetsat.int/S3-olci-l1-nrt-on-eumetcast-satellite-removed
Status:scheduled
Issue Time:2020-11-16 08:37:15.0
Services:OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B

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