Topic:  Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 27

Date/Time Issued: July 04, 2022 1425Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: July 04, 2022 1412Z (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: 9287
Message creation: Mon Jul 04 14:12:31 UTC 2022

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7582
Rev: 6
Start Time: 2021-12-07 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-08-01 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: ASCAT
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Event End date updated
Revision History: [Original] Calibrations to support transponder test.. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. [Rev. 2] Event End date updated. [Rev. 3] Event End date updated. [Rev.4] Event End date updated. [Rev.5] Event End date updated
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-05-10 14:35:29.0
Services: ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 8230
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-04-25 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-31 23:59:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: Jupyter Notebook Competition: EUMETSAT, in partnership with ECMWF, EEA and Mercator Ocean International, is running a new Jupyter Notebook Competition. The aim of the competition is to try to build a community-driven resource of notebooks on the Copernicus WEkEO online platform that will empower others to start their own journeys with Earth observation data. The competition runs until 31 July 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History:
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/science-blog/new-jupyter-notebook-competition
Issue Time: 2022-05-19 13:43:36.0
Services:
Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 8383
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-06-27 10:36:00.0
End Time: 2022-06-27 10:36:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: CFOSAT SWIM Level 2 data (distributed on EUMETCast) have been upgraded to Version 6. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History:
Url: https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/news/front-page-news/news-detail.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2756
Issue Time: 2022-06-30 12:55:09.0
Services:
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8355
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2022-06-29 07:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-05 18:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Event end date updated.
Revision History: [Original] EARS St. Denis Contributing Station Upgrade maintenance between 29 June 2022 and 04 July 2022, each day between 07:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC. There may be disruption to all St. Denis acquired EARS services during the indicated maintenance periods.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-07-04 14:08:16.0
Services: EARS-ATOVS
EARS-ASCAT
EARS-IASI
EARS-CrlS
EARS-ATMS

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 8382
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-06-30 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-06-30 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: GOES-18 ABI Level 1 test data are now available for users. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History:
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/goes-18-abi-test-data-available
Issue Time: 2022-06-30 12:46:56.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 8384
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-06-30 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-06-30 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: New release of Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 2 reprocessed datasets. With this release, the full OLCI L2 mission time series based on the latest Baseline Collection 3 is now available to users. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History:
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/new-release-olci-l2-reprocessed-datasets
Issue Time: 2022-06-30 13:04:34.0
Services: OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8378
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-05 08:27:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-05 08:34:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-06-29 14:22:55.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8379
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-05 08:27:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-05 10:10:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: SEM
Component: TED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM TED in flight calibration.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-06-29 14:23:50.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8381
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-05 08:30:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-07 10:04:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Due to maintenance, there will be no support for NOAA-19 from the EUMETSAT Svalbard Ground Station. Therefore NOAA-19 data for the listed orbits will not be acquired at Svalbard and will be unavailable on EUMETCast.
Revision History:
Orbits: 69098,69099,69112,69113,69127
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-06-30 12:37:33.0
Services: AVHRR Level 1 - NOAA
AMSU-A Level 1 - NOAA
MHS Level 1 - NOAA
ATOVS Sounding products - NOAA
HIRS Level 1 - NOAA

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8380
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-05 09:20:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-05 09:27:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-06-29 14:24:53.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8385
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-05 14:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-05 14:10:00.0
Satellites: GOES-17
Subject: instrument-special-operation
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: NOAA will stop the GOES-17 ABI instrument on 5 July 2022 from 1400 - 1410Z in order to update the solar exclusion zone.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-06-30 15:29:37.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8393
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-06 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-06 12:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Svalbard Station EPS-SG PDAD Tests. There may be disruption to the listed EUMETSAT based services.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-07-04 09:26:48.0
Services: EARS-AVHRR
EARS-ATOVS
EARS-MWRI
EARS-ATMS
EARS-CrlS
EARS-VIIRS
EARS-VASS
EARS-NWC
EARS-MERSI

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 8361
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-07 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-07 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: Release of a new Sentinel-3 Altimetry Processing Baseline (PB): SM__WAT.005.01, the first PB of the new Baseline Collection (BC) 005. This new BC introduces several important changes and improvements to the Sentinel-3 Altimetry Marine products, in terms of scientific content for both L1 and L2 products. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History:
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/new-sentinel-3-altimetry-processing-baseline-collection-005
Issue Time: 2022-06-23 12:05:16.0
Services: SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
MWR Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B
MWR Level 1 Products - S3B
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8394
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-07 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-07 13:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Kangerlussuaq Station EPS-SG PDAD Tests. There may be disruption to the listed EUMETSAT based services.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-07-04 09:28:36.0
Services: EARS-AVHRR
EARS-ATOVS
EARS-MWRI
EARS-ASCAT
EARS-IASI
EARS-ATMS
EARS-CrlS
EARS-VIIRS
EARS-NWC
EARS-VASS
EARS-MERSI

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8377
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-07 23:30:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-08 04:30:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: EARS Maspalomas Core Station Data line maintenance. There may be disruption to the listed EUMETSAT based services.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-06-29 14:51:38.0
Services: EARS-ATOVS
EARS-AVHRR
EARS-MWRI
EARS-ASCAT
EARS-IASI
EARS-ATMS
EARS-CrlS
EARS-VASS
EARS-VIIRS
EARS-NWC
EARS-MERSI

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8391
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-09 11:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-09 11:10:00.0
Satellites: GOES-16
Subject: instrument-calibration
Detail: A GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 9 July 2022. Between 11:00 and 11:05 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_s20221901110[SSS]_e20221901115[SSS]_c202219011[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 11:10 UTC
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-07-01 12:14:43.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8392
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-09 15:10:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-09 15:20:00.0
Satellites: GOES-17
Subject: instrument-calibration
Detail: A GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 9 July 2022. Between 15:10 and 15:15 UTC GOES-17 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_G17_s20221901510[SSS]_e20221901515[SSS]_c202219015[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 15:20 UTC.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-07-04 07:35:01.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8351
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-13 06:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-13 18:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B, Metop-C
Subsystem: GRAS
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: The Radio occultation Support Network (RSN) provides auxiliary data that are essential for the generation of high quality GRAS products. A software upgrade on 13 July 2022 will fix several small anomalies in the system that is responsible for generating the RSN data. The upgrade will improve the robustness of the system as well. No impact on the production of GRAS data is expected.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-06-21 10:50:08.0
Services: GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 8386
Rev: 0
Start Time: 2022-07-13 10:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-13 14:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: service-degraded
Detail: Planned maintenance activity on the EOPortal. The service will become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period, impacting the authentication on the Data Store, Data Tailor, EUMETView, CODA and Data Centre services.
Revision History:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-06-30 15:39:19.0
Services: EUMETSAT Data Centre
Web Service
Copernicus Online Data Access
Data Store and Data Tailor Web Service
EUMETView

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7033
Rev: 5
Start Time: 2022-08-15 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-08-15 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: New date: Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated on 15 August 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: [Rev.1] Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated in November 2021 (exact date to be announced in due course). For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: The update is being deferred to Q1 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. [Rev. 3]: A live test data stream has been put in place. For details on how to access the data and how to use them, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 4]: The update is being deferred to Q4 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/changes-pc-compressed-iasi-l1c-data
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-05-18 14:44:54.0
Services: IASI Level 1 - Metop-A
IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 8060
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2022-10-05 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-10-05 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: [REV 1] The CSR product will be discontinued on 5 October 2022 instead of the originally planned date of 30 June 2022.
Revision History: [Original] Meteosat SEVIRI Clear Sky Radiances (CSR) product to be discontinued. For more details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/meteosat-csr-product-be-discontinued
Issue Time: 2022-06-23 08:18:18.0
Services: 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7414
Rev: 3
Start Time: 2022-10-20 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-10-20 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Revision History: [Rev.1] File formats of Meteosat meteorological products distributed on EUMETCast are planned to be updated in October 2022. At the same time, there will be a small change in the timestamp of the AMV products distributed on the GTS. For full details and test data, see the URL provided below. [Rev.2] The operational switch to the new WMO compliant format for the Meteosat meteorological products distributed on EUMETCast will take place on 20 October 2022. There will be a parallel dissemination on EUMETCast of the old and new formats from 19 July to 19 October 2022.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/change-file-formats-meteosat-meteorological-products
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-06-22 10:09:57.0
Services: 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7329
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2022-12-23 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-12-23 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: The transponder migration for the EUMETCast Europe High Volume Service will include a parallel downlink period where the old and new transponders will be used from 24 November to 23 December 2022. The service on the old transponder will stop on 23 December 2022.
Revision History: [Rev.1] Transponder migration for the EUMETCast Europe High Volume Service planned for Q3 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetcast-europe-service-transponder-migration
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2022-05-12 11:44:14.0
Services: EUMETCast-Europe

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