Topic:M-B Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 51 Issue 2 (Update of announcements 5452)

Date/Time Issued: December 18, 2019 0935Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact:M-B December 18, 2019M-B 09:26:16M-B (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)

Date/Time of Expected End:M-B See table in detail for on and off switch time M-B

Length of Outage:M-B N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:

Message number: | 6490
Message creation: | Wed Dec 18 09:26:16 GMT+00:00 2019

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 4920
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | There is an issue with the latest EUMETCast software package, affecting Linux operating systems when the Tellicast client software (version 2.14.5) is used in combination with the Safenet drivers. A new alpha version of Tellicast, with a fix of the issue, is available for download. See the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4451027.html
Issue Time: | 2019-06-27 11:18:18.0
Services: |

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5355
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-11-14 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-04-15 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | GOME-2
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | The Metop-A satellite with GOME-2 on-board is currently in drifting orbit. As a consequence there are periods during which the GOME-2 instrument is not able to carry out its daily solar calibration measurement. The third such period will be from 14 November 2019 to 14 April 2020. During this period, the solar mean reference spectrum provided in the Metop-A GOME-2 level-1B product will be automatically replaced by a modelled solar spectrum using information on solar activity from Metop-B. Therefore, it is expected that the quality of both level-1B and level-2 products might undergo slight changes during this period, and there will be an associated risk of degraded product quality for Metop-A GOME-2 products.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-13 08:04:09.0
Services: | GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-A GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A AC SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5323
Rev: | 3
Start Time: | 2019-11-18 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-23 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Calibrations to support transponder test. Outages of products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. [Rev. 2]: End date updated. [Rev. 3]: End date updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 15:06:24.0
Services: | ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5402
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2019-12-04 14:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-02-19 14:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | Drift to a new orbital position. During this period, Metop-C will not be following the reference orbit, with a drifting ground track and phase with respect to Metop-B. Some instrument products may be degraded. A small impact on the number and quality of AVHRR wind products might be observed during this period. [Rev. 2]: End date updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-13 08:04:21.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-C AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-C MHS Level 1 - Metop-C Multi-sensor Products - Metop-C IASI Sounding products- Metop-C IASI Level 1 - Metop-C EARS-ATOVS EARS-AVHRR EARS-IASI AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-C A-DCS AHRPT Metop-C AVHRR AHRPT Metop-C HIRS AHRPT Metop-C IASI AHRPT Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C MHS AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5454
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | EUMETSAT Polar System-Second Generation (EPS-SG) simulated Radio Occultation Level 1B test data are now available for user familiarisation. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4772437.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 15:31:19.0
Services: |

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5455
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | EUMETSAT Polar System - Second Generation (EPS-SG) simulated Microwave Sounder Level 1B and Level 2 test data are now available for user familiarisation. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4772634.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 15:30:39.0
Services: |

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5457
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | A simulated Level 1B dataset of the Infrared Sounder (IRS) which will fly on Meteosat Third Generation sounding satellites (MTG-S) is now available for user familiarisation. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4773827.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-12 13:28:29.0
Services: |

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5458
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-12 16:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-12 16:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Filename change for the MODIS Long-Wave Sea Surface Temperature product distributed on EUMETCast. Example of old filename: A2019299.L3m_DAY_SST_sst_4km.nc. Example of new filename: AQUA_MODIS.20191210.L3m.DAY.SST.sst.4km.NRT.nc.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-12 16:33:43.0
Services: | MODIS Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5461
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-14 04:30:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-14 16:30:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | data-delayed
Detail: | McMurdo Critical Maintenance. The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system will be interrupted. Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness will be available during this period.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-13 08:10:09.0
Services: | AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B SEM L0 - Metop-B AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B MHS Level 1 - Metop-B HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B Multi-Metop Wind Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5462
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-15 04:30:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-15 16:30:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | data-delayed
Detail: | McMurdo Critical Maintenance. The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system will be interrupted. Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness will be available during this period.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-13 08:11:05.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B MHS Level 1 - Metop-B HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-B ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B Multi-Metop Wind Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5456
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-16 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-16 17:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A,Metop-B,Metop-C
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | A patch to the AVHRR L2 AMV (Atmospheric Motion Vectors) processor will be deployed to fix a problem that results in the loss of 5-10% of the winds. There will be an interruption of up to 3 hours in the generation of the AVHRR L2 AMV products during the indicated time period.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-12 13:23:11.0
Services: | AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-A AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B AVHRR Polar winds - Metop-C Multi-Metop Wind Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5448
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-16 14:30:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-16 14:36:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Gain Compression
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 14:22:15.0
Services: | ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C EARS-ASCAT ASCAT AHRPT Metop-C OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5447
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-17 05:12:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-17 09:12:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | IASI
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 14:20:30.0
Services: | IASI Sounding products- Metop-C IASI Level 1 - Metop-C EARS-IASI IASI AHRPT Metop-C OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5443
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-17 08:15:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-17 08:22:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 14:14:48.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5446
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-17 08:53:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-17 09:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 14:19:24.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5453
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-17 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-17 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Release of a new Sentinel-3B OLCI Level 1 Processing Baseline, PB 1.34. This new PB will improve the accuracy of OLCI-B geometric calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 15:17:28.0
Services: | OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5445
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-17 09:30:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-17 09:37:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 14:18:08.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5429
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2019-12-18 08:16:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-18 08:29:00.0
Satellites: | Sentinel-3B
Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | The exact times will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. [Rev. 2] Start/End times revised. Reduced data quality for SRAL should be expected for data sensed during this period. Reduced data quality for SLSTR can be expected from 08:16 to approximately 10:23
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 11:48:02.0
Services: | OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3B SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5452
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2019-12-18 16:22:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-18 16:23:00.0
Satellites: | NOAA-20
Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Drag Make-Up manoeuvre (DMU). This may cause data to be unavailable or degraded. The exact time will be announced closer to the manoeuvre.[Rev 2] Event start and end time updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-18 09:23:54.0
Services: | ATMS Level 1 - JPSS CrIS Level 1 - JPSS

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5444
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-21 04:50:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-21 09:50:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | IASI
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | External Calibration
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 14:16:12.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A EARS-IASI IASI AHRPT Metop-A OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5442
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-21 14:09:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-22 15:55:00.0
Satellites: | Jason-3
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | data-delayed
Detail: | Ground Station Maintenance. Jason-3 OGDR products will be late during the following periods: 2019/12/21 between 14:09 and 18:57 UTC and on 2019/12/22 between 10:55 and 15:55 UTC.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 14:13:22.0
Services: | Jason-3 OGDR

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5450
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-01-06 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-02-03 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. During this period, there will be no RSS gap filling by Meteosat-9.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 16:39:52.0
Services: | RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5441
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-01-13 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-01-20 09:00:00.0
Satellites: | MET-11
Subject: | instrument-decontamination
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEVIRI decontamination. Meteosat-9 will cover the Full Earth Scan service during the decontamination period. An outage of up to two repeat cycles can be expected when switching to and from Meteosat-9. Meteosat-9 data will also be disseminated on EUMETCast Europe one week before and one week after Meteosat-11 decontamination, i.e. from 06/01 to 27/01/2020. Users wishing to receive the parallel Meteosat data streams on EUMETCast should register with our User Helpdesk (ops@eumetsat.int). For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4762227.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-12 14:46:22.0
Services: | 0M-BM-0 SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data 0M-BM-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5451
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-01-21 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-01-21 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | A new Processing Baseline, PB 2.61, introducing major enhancements to the Sentinel-3 Altimetry products, is planned to be released on 21 January 2020. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4762430.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 15:03:16.0
Services: | MWR Level 1 Products - S3A SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A MWR Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5449
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-01-27 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-02-03 09:00:00.0
Satellites: | MET-9
Subject: | instrument-decontamination
Detail: | SEVIRI decontamination. Meteosat-9 will not be available as backup spacecraft for the Full Earth Scan service in the event of Meteosat-11 anomalies. Meteosat-10 will be the backup spacecraft instead. For full details, see the related URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4762227.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-11 14:53:03.0
Services: | 0M-BM-0 SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data 0M-BM-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5421
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-03-02 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-03-02 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | The NOAA Direct Broadcast Real-Time Network (DBRTN) data, currently distributed on EUMETCast, will be removed on 2 March 2020. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4759427.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-04 11:30:54.0
Services: | NDB (NOAA Direct Broadcast)

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5159
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-06-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-06-01 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | A new BUFR encoding sequence will be introduced in June 2020 for all EUMETSATM-bM-^@M-^Ys wind products. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below.
Url: | http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4593260.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-09-11 16:22:14.0
Services: | 0M-BM-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-A AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B AVHRR Polar winds - Metop-C Multi-Metop Wind Products

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