Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 50
Date/Time Issued: December 08, 2022 1556Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 8, 2022 1545Z
Date/Time of Expected End: See list Below
Details/Specifics of Change:
| Message number: | 10099 |
| Message creation: | Thu Dec 08 15:45:04 UTC 2022 |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 7582 |
| Rev: | 9 |
| Start Time: | 2021-12-07 00:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-30 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 [Rev.6] Event End date updated [Rev.7] Event End date updated [Rev.8] Event End date updated. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-24 11:03:22.0 |
| Services: | ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8444 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2022-07-28 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-04 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | End time changed from 3 January to 4 January 2023. |
| Revision History: | [Original] GOES-18 ABI L1b data will be distributed in parallel to GOES-17 ABI L1b data from 28 July 2022 to 3 January 2023. Users wishing to receive the parallel GOES-18 ABI L1b data stream should contact our User Service Helpdesk (ops@eumetsat.int). For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/parallel-dissemination-goes-18-abi-data |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-16 16:10:19.0 |
| Services: | GOES Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 8838 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-11-21 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-19 09:00:00.0 |
| Satellites: | MET-10 |
| Subject: | yearly-RSS-interruption |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | Yearly interruption. Meteosat-10 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-03 10:05:43.0 |
| Services: | RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9085 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-07 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-07 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | Release of a new version of EPS-SG IASI-NG L1C, L1D and L2 test datasets (version 2.1). For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/new-version-eps-sg-iasi-ng-l1c-l1d-l2-test-data |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-07 17:01:59.0 |
| Services: |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9084 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-12 00:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-13 23:59:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-B |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | risk-of-delay |
| Detail: | McMurdo MG1 monthly Maintenance. The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system may be interrupted. Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness may be available during this period. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-07 15:44:26.0 |
| Services: | AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B SEM L0 - Metop-B MHS Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-B HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B Multi-Metop Wind Products |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8987 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-12 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-12 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | Release of new Processing Baselines for Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 1 (SL__L1_.004.05.00) and SLSTR L2 SST products (SL__SST.003.07.00). For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/new-sentinel-3-slstr-level-1-and-level-2-sst-processing-baselines-released-soon |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-24 13:43:04.0 |
| Services: | SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3B |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9081 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-12 14:26:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-12 14:32:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Metop-C |
| Subsystem: | ASCAT |
| Subject: | instrument-calibration |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | Gain Compression |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-07 15:05:41.0 |
| Services: | ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C EARS-ASCAT ASCAT AHRPT Metop-C OSI SAF - Products |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8752 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-13 05:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-13 23:59:00.0 |
| Subject: | service-change |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | Start time changed to 05:00 UTC on 13 December 2022. There will be a risk of data outage all day on that day. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Himawari-9 AHI data to replace Himawari-8 AHI data. For full details, see the URL provided below. There will be a risk of data outage from 09:00 to 11:00 UTC on the day of the switch to Himawari-9. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/himawari-9-data-replace-himawari-8-data-soon |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-24 13:31:13.0 |
| Services: | Himawari Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9080 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-13 08:49:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-13 08:56:00.0 |
| 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: | 2022-12-07 15:14:12.0 |
| Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9087 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-13 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-13 09:30:00.0 |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | EARS Dorval Node (Gander & Edmonton Contributing stations) PCCW Data Line Maintenance. A 15 minute disruption within the specified period to the listed EUMETSAT based services is expected. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-08 09:30:17.0 |
| Services: | EARS-ATOVS EARS-AVHRR EARS-MWRI EARS-ATMS EARS-ASCAT EARS-IASI EARS-CrlS EARS-VIIRS EARS-NWC EARS-MERSI EARS-VASS |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9079 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-13 09:37:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-13 09:44:00.0 |
| 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: | 2022-12-07 15:14:03.0 |
| Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9083 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-13 18:23:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-13 18:24:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Jason-3 |
| Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Detail: | Station keeping manoeuvre. The change in semi-major axis will be announced closer to the manoeuvre. OGDR products may be degraded 30 minutes before and up to 2 hours after the manoeuvre. This will affect the sea surface height, but not the wind and wave content in the products. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-08 15:40:12.0 |
| Services: | Jason-3 OGDR |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9057 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-14 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-14 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | NOAA NDE System upgrade, affecting products from GOES-16, GOES-17, SNPP and NOAA-20. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/noaa-nde-system-upgrade |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-30 15:57:24.0 |
| Services: | SNPP - JPSS Copernicus data GOES Products |
| Type: | Planned Maintenance |
| Ann Nr: | 9082 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-15 08:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-15 10:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance |
| Impact: | service-unavailable |
| Detail: | Planned maintenance activity on Data Store and Data Tailor. Services may become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-07 15:20:00.0 |
| Services: | Data Store and Data Tailor Web Service |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8880 |
| Rev: | 3 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-15 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-15 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | The update of the ASCAT regional wind products needs to be postponed again due to unforeseen issues. A new date will be announced soon. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Release of a new version of ASCAT Level 1 PPF (Product Processing Facility), v11.3. For full details and test data, see the URL provided below. [Rev.1] The update of the ASCAT regional wind products is being deferred to a later date (to be announced soon). [Rev.2] The update of the ASCAT regional wind products will take place on 1 December 2022. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/update-ascat-level-1-processing |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-01 13:01:57.0 |
| Services: | ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C EARS-ASCAT OSI SAF - Products |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8980 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-15 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-15 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | SNPP and NOAA-20 CrIS Sensor Data Records (SDRs) will undergo a version change. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/snpp-and-noaa-20-cris-sdrs-version-change |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-23 14:29:41.0 |
| Services: | CrlS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP CrIS Level 1 - JPSS |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8982 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-15 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-15 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | new-product |
| Detail: | Release of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich L3 Non-Time Critical (NTC) products. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/release-sentinel-6-l2p-and-l3-ntc-products |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-23 14:37:00.0 |
| Services: |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8865 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2022-12-15 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2022-12-15 18:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Impact: | risk-of-interruption |
| Detail: | The uplink service for EUMETCast Europe will be handed over to a new provider on 15 December 2022. This should be transparent to users and no change on user side is required. However, an interruption to the service is to be expected during the handover process. From 2 to 15 December, users can test their reception by receiving the EUMETCast Europe traffic from Hotbird-13C, EUMETCast Europe backup satellite. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/new-uplink-service-eumetcast-europe |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-09 16:00:02.0 |
| Services: | EUMETCast-Europe |
| 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 |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8919 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-04 18:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-04 18:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | new-product |
| Detail: | Change of time to 18:00 UTC on 4 January 2023, as announced by NOAA. |
| Revision History: | [Original] GOES-18 to become the operational GOES-West satellite on 4 January 2023. From this date, GOES-18 data streams will replace GOES-17 data streams on EUMETCast. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/goes-18-transition-operations |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-24 15:51:43.0 |
| Services: | GOES Products |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8979 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-19 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-19 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | The release is deferred to 19 January 2023. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Release of a new processor version for Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Radio Occultation Non Time Critical (NTC) data, RO-NTC v3.7. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/new-processor-version-sentinel-6-radio-occultation-data-dec2022 |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-06 15:12:24.0 |
| Services: | NTC Radio Occultation RO L1B Products - S6A |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 9086 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-26 13:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-26 14:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | As part of a series of monthly open, online short sessions on EUMETSAT's data access services, the next session will take place on 26 January 2023 and will focus on how to use EUMETView's latest features. For more details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/data-access-services-eumetview-new-features |
| Issue Time: | 2022-12-07 17:05:42.0 |
| Services: |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 7033 |
| Rev: | 9 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-30 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-30 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | The update has been deferred to January 2023, with exact date to be announced later. |
| 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. [Rev.5] New date: Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated on 15 August 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev.6] New date: Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated in mid-November 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev.7] The update will take place on 24 November 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev.8] The update has been deferred to 7 December 2022. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/changes-pc-compressed-iasi-l1c-data |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-30 14:13:00.0 |
| Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-C |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8993 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-30 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-30 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | product-change |
| Detail: | The release is being deferred to January 2023, with exact date to be announced later. |
| Revision History: | [Original] Release of a new version of IASI Level 2 Product Processing Facility (PPF), v6.7. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/release-iasi-level-2-ppf-version-67 |
| Issue Time: | 2022-11-30 14:13:55.0 |
| Services: | IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B IASI Sounding products- Metop-C |
| Type: | Service Enhancement |
| Ann Nr: | 8794 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2023-01-31 09:00:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2023-01-31 09:00:00.0 |
| Subject: | general-announcement |
| Detail: | A sub-set of precipitation products from the H SAF will be discontinued on 31 January 2023. For full details, see the URL provided below. |
| Revision History: | |
| Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/h-saf-precipitation-products-be-discontinued |
| Issue Time: | 2022-10-19 16:05:17.0 |
| Services: | H-SAF - Products |
| Name: | EUMETSAT |
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| E-mail: | ops@eumetsat.int |
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