Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule, Week 19 Issue 3 (Update of announcement 4763)

Date/Time Issued: May 06, 2019 1415Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 06, 2019 1343Z (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: | 5787 | Message creation: | Mon May 06 13:43:25 GMT+00:00 2019

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 3867
Rev: | 6
Start Time: | 2018-06-04 19:02:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-31 23:59:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | ASCAT Extensive Maintenance. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey during the mentioned period.[Rev2]: Updated End time and date. [Rev3]: End date updated.[Rev4]: End date updated. [Rev5] End date updated. [Rev 6] : End date updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-02-15 08:56:09.0
Services: | ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A EARS-ASCAT ASCAT AHRPT Metop-A OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 4443
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-01-11 01:00:00.0
Satellites: | FY-2E
Subject: | service-change
Detail: | The FY-2E satellite at 86.5 deg East has been replaced by the FY-2H satellite at 79 deg East as of 11th Jan 2019. The dissemination of FY-2H products will start as soon as they are available to EUMETSAT.
Issue Time: | 2019-01-11 14:32:38.0
Services: | FY-2 Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4764
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-06 11:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-06 12:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Ground Segment Maintenance. Low risk of data interruption.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-30 15:26:53.0
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: | 4769
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-06 15:08:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-06 15:14:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Gain Compression
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-05-02 15:16:44.0
Services: | ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C EARS-ASCAT ASCAT AHRPT Metop-C OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4762
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-07 08:23:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-07 08:30:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-30 14:57:12.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4761
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-07 08:23:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-07 10:06:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | TED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-30 14:56:16.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4760
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-07 08:50:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-07 08:57:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-30 14:52:23.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4765
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-07 11:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-07 11:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Ground Segment Maintenance. Low risk of data interruption.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-30 15:28:42.0
Services: | AVHRR Level 1 - NOAA HIRS Level 1 - NOAA AMSU-A Level 1 - NOAA MHS Level 1 - NOAA ATOVS Sounding products - NOAA

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4763
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2019-05-07 11:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-09 22:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | NOAA Backup site exercise. There is a risk for interruption or delays during this period. [Rev 2] Updated to add JPSS data.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-05-06 13:28:18.0
Services: | ATMS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP CrlS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP VIIRS EDR - Suomi-NPP VIIRS EDR - JPSS CrIS Level 1 - JPSS ATMS Level 1 - JPSS Marine Products - Suomi-NPP Atmospheric Products - Suomi-NPP

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4767
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-07 11:58:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-07 11:59:00.0
Satellites: | MET-11
Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | Attitude Slew Manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded image quality and degraded meteorological product quality up to a few hours after the manoeuvre.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-05-02 13:45:56.0
Services: | 0M-0 SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data 0M-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4773
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-08 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-08 16:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | On 8 May 2019 there will be an update to the system that provides the auxiliary data required by the GRAS algorithms. The auxiliary data includes Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) ephemerides, GPS clock bias, and GPS navigation data, among others. There will be no change to the GRAS algorithms. The update will be performed during working hours, between 8 and 16 UTC, with a small risk of an interruption in the GRAS data production.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-05-03 08:46:52.0
Services: | GRAS Level 1 - Metop-A GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C ROM SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4704
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2019-05-08 13:06:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-08 13:06:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | Routine in-plane manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. The exact burn time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. [Rev. 2] Start and end time updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-30 14:54:01.0
Services: | AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B SEM L0 - Metop-B AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B MHS Level 1 - Metop-B HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B IASI 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 AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B A-DCS AHRPT Metop-B AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-B ASCAT AHRPT Metop-B AVHRR AHRPT Metop-B GRAS AHRPT Metop-B GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-B HIRS AHRPT Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B IASI AHRPT Metop-B MHS AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4766
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-09 08:23:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-09 08:35:00.0
Satellites: | Sentinel-3B
Subsystem: | SRAL
Subject: | instrument-special-operation
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Between the Event Start and End Times, SRAL will be manually commanded to "Stand by" for ~2 mins in order to change the TC_NAV source from GNSS to DORIS. Degradation of data can be expected for ~2-4 mins after the activity due to manual commanding of SRAL mode transitions (Open loop <-> Close loop)
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-05-02 13:39:02.0
Services: | SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4758
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-09 18:50:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-09 19:49:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | GOME-2
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | GOME2 monthly measurements of GOME-2 polarisation (PMD) data in raw readout mode (PMDRAW). The AC SAF Near Real Time Total Column products (Total Column Ozone, the Total Column NO2, and the Tropospheric NO2) will be unavailable.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-30 14:26:23.0
Services: | GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-B AC SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4768
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-09 19:44:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-09 20:43:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | GOME-2
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | GOME2 monthly measurements of GOME-2 polarisation (PMD) data in raw readout mode (PMDRAW). The AC SAF Near Real Time Total Column products (Total Column Ozone, the Total Column NO2, and the Tropospheric NO2) will be unavailable.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-05-02 14:16:03.0
Services: | GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-B AC SAF - Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 4679
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-14 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-14 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | IASI Level 2 BUFR products to be upgraded to use WMO descriptors. For full details and sample data, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4331228.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-03 15:04:18.0
Services: | IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4739
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-05-22 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-05-22 09:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | Routine in-plane manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. The exact burn time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-24 15:21:25.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-A AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-A AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-A MHS Level 1 - Metop-A HIRS Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Level 1 - Metop-A ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-A GRAS Level 1 - Metop-A ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-A IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-A Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-A A-DCS AHRPT Metop-A AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-A ASCAT AHRPT Metop-A AVHRR AHRPT Metop-A HIRS AHRPT Metop-A GRAS AHRPT Metop-A MHS AHRPT Metop-A GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A IASI AHRPT Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 4654
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-06-04 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-06-04 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Change to Meteosat 0M-0 Geostationary Nowcasting cloud products distributed on EUMETCast Europe. For full details and sample data, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4326631.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-03-27 14:24:05.0
Services: | 0M-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 4759
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-06-28 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-06-28 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | New algorithm for the Meteosat Active Fire Monitoring (FIR) product to be rolled-out towards end of June 2019 (exact date to be announced in due course). For full details and sample data of the new FIR product, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4372427.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-04-30 14:34:04.0
Services: | 0M-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 4573
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-10 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-10 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Discontinuation of the Meteosat 0M-0 Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimate (MPE) product. This product is being replaced with the PR-OBS-3B product from the H SAF. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4286429.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-02-27 13:52:40.0
Services: | 0M-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products

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