Topic: Legacy SMOPS Retirement

Retirement of Legacy SMOPS Products scheduled for May 07, 2024,

Date/Time Issued: March 8, 2024 2149Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: Legacy SMOPS Products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 07, 2024

Date/Time of Expected End: May 07, 2024

Length of Outage: TBD

Details/Specifics of Change:

The NESDIS Operational Soil Moisture Products(SMOPS) products were migrated to (NESDIS Common Cloud Framework(NCCF) on March 7, 2024. OSPO/ESPC will stop the production of the legacy SMOPS on May 07, 2024. Users should switch to SMOPS_Blend_Daily_Archive for SMOPS archive data. Please make a note on the shortname and filename change in NCCF and pay attention to the information provided in the table below for the product filename and PDA short name. OSPO will stop providing SMOPS 6 hourly GRIB2 products on PDA. If any user needs this data, please contact SMOPS product POC(liqun.ma@noaa.gov)

Filename and PDA shortname change:

NCCF SMOPS PDA Short Name	NCCF SMOPS PDA Filename Pattern	Current Operation SMOPS PDA Short Name	Current Operation SMOPS PDA Filename Pattern
		SMOPS-6_Hourly	NPR_SMOPS_CMAP_D\d{10}\.gr2
SMOPS_Blend_Daily_Archive	NPR-SMOPS-CMAP-archv_v4r0_blend_s202311170000000_e202311172359599_c202311190715053.nc	SMOPS-Daily_Archive	NPR_SMOPS_CMAP_D\d{8}\.nc

List of Scientific Changes: Added input data from Metop-C and removed SMOS

Please note: This upgrade will not be performed during Critical Weather Day (CWD).

Also, the contents of this release are subject to change based on user readiness, customer feedback, and management approval.

Additional ESPC notifications will provide further details and updates concerning this release. User feedback and questions should be directed to Liqun Ma(liqun.ma@noaa.gov)

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