Topic: Major ESPC Network Maintenance 

Date/Time Issued:  May 3, 2021 1147 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  All operational legacy products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 3, 2021 1430 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End:  May 4, 2021 1830 UTC

Length of Event:  Approximately 4 Hours (Intermittent Delays/Outages)

Details/Specifics of Change:  The Environmental Satellite Processing Center (ESPC) will be performing major network maintenance from Monday, May 3rd and Tuesday, May 4th between 1430 - 1830 UTC each day on legacy ESPC production systems. As a result, there may be intermittent delays and outages for operational legacy products during the maintenance window.  

This maintenance will NOT be done on a Critical Weather Day, nor if there are other significant operational issues warranting postponement. 

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at (301)817-4799. 

Web Site(s) for applicable information: See https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/messages.html for this and other satellite related messages.

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THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS MAY BE IMPACTED:

- GOES Reformatter & Histogram (Non-McIDAS)

- GOES 4km VIS for Meteo France

- SSMI / SSMIS TDRs, SDRs, RDRs

- WINDSAT

- POES / MetOp-A Level 1B, 1B*, Granules:

  -- AMSU-A

  -- AVHRR FRAC / GAC / LAC

  -- DCS

  -- GOME

  -- HIRS

  -- HRPT

  -- MHS

  -- SBUV

  -- SEM

PRODUCTS DEGRADED or DELAYED:

These are POES / MetOp-A derived products that use 1Bs, 1B*s, Granules:

- ACSPO

- ATOVS

- bRR

- BTPW

- CLAVR-X

- Coastwatch AVHRR

- GOME

- GVI  (short Polarprod outage will have minimal impact to this daily product)

- GVPS (short Polarprod outage will have minimal impact to this daily product)

- HMS (short Polarprod outage will cause only short delay to polar imagery)

- IASI

- IMS-24 (short Polarprod outage will cause only short delay to polar imagery)

- IMS-4 (short Polarprod outage will cause only short delay to polar imagery)

- MGVI

- MIRS

- MSPPS

- MSPPS-AOI

- POES-SST/Aerosol

- Polar Mapping

- RadBud

- SBUV V8

- SMOPS

- SST & Aerosols

- TOAST (short Polarprod outage will have minimal impact to this daily product)

All products that use Shared File System (SFS) for data input or data distribution may be affected.  This includes:

McIDAS products distributed via the GeoDist servers:

geodist1 (DPD, GEICP, and NPT)

geodist4 (M1, M2, MIRS, and PLR)

geodist5 (MOD)

AWIPS Composites for GINI

PDA products:

ADT

AMSUTC

Arctic Imagery Products

ASDTA Smoke

AVHRR-CD-Winds

Blended SST

CoastWatch AVHRR

CoastWatch VIIRS SST

Coral Reef Monitoring

CSBT

eTRaP

FIMMA

Four Satellite Composite

GASP

GBBEP

Geo SST

Get-D

GGCP

GHE

GICP

GIS-FIRE-WEB

GIS-PRODS

GIS-SNOW-WEB

GLST

GMGSI

GOES Winds

GPM BUFR

GSIP v3

HMS

MIRS High Res

MODIS Dust Mask

MODIS-WINDS

MTCSWA

MTROPS

MTSAT * Winds

OHC

Prodmon

SAR Hi-Res Winds

SFOV

SPE

TCFP

Volcano

WF-ABBA