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Product Outage/Anomaly: NOAA-19 AMSU-A Channel-1 Blackbody Lower Gross Limit Violation, Issued: May 20, 2011, 1700 UTC

Topic: NOAA-19 AMSU-A Channel-1 Blackbody Lower Gross Limit Violation

Date/Time Issued: May 20, 2011, 1700 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: NOAA-19 AMSU-A Channel-1 Level-1b Data and All Related Products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 18, 2011

Date/Time of Expected End: May 20, 2011, Time 17:00 UTC

Length of Outage: 2 Days

Details/Specifics of Change: NOAA-19 AMSU-A channel-1 blackbody view data occasionally fell below its gross filtering limit of 14000. Its rate of decline is about 6 per week. Users might see relevant quality indicator changes and product impacts. The gross filtering limit was changed from 14000 to 13500 on 20 May 2011 approximately at 17:00z. The channel-1 blackbody lower gross limit violation shall be avoided.

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A


ppp@nesdis.noaa.gov

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