Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 49 Issue 5 (addition of 5414, update of 5372)

Date/Time Issued: December 04, 2019 1112Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 04, 2019 1049Z (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: | 6440
Message creation: | Wed Dec 04 10:49:21 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: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5128
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2019-09-30 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-05 09:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Metop-A Technology Test Campaign I (one) execution: possible data disruptions or outages. More information will be given in specific instruments announcements. [Rev. 2] End date updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-25 16:11:27.0
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: | 2019-11-29 07:48:28.0
Services: | GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-A GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A AC SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5323
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2019-11-18 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-16 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.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-13 14:58:20.0
Services: | ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5315
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-11-25 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-04 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | AMSU-A
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | End of Life technology test for AMSU.Short interruptions can be expected during the testing.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-10-30 13:40:07.0
Services: | AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-A AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-A OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5390
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-02 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-02 16:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A,Metop-B,Metop-C
Subsystem: | GRAS
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | There will be an upgrade to the auxiliary data on which the GRAS higher level products rely. This will not affect the format of the GRAS products, but there will be a small risk of interruption in the data production during the maintenance period.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 09:38:23.0
Services: | GRAS Level 1 - Metop-A GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5403
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-02 10:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-02 10:20:00.0
Satellites: | MET-8
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Due to ground segment maintenance there is a risk of interruption of the IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 image data and IODC meteorological products for the 10:00 UTC repeat cycle.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-29 10:55:02.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5398
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-03 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-12 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-delay
Detail: | McMurdo HDR receiver replacement will be performed. There is a risk of interruption to the enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system in this period. Therefore there is a risk of only nominal Arctic timeliness being available in this period.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 15:43:35.0
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: | 5394
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-03 08:04:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-03 08:11:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 14:56:06.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5397
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-03 08:45:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-03 08:52:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 14:58:35.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5395
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-03 09:19:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-03 09:26:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 14:56:55.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5396
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-03 09:19:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-03 11:02:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | TED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 14:57:36.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5399
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-03 15:26:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-03 15:26:00.0
Satellites: | Jason-3
Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | Station keeping manoeuvre. The semi-major axis will be increased by 9.7 m resulting in radial orbit errors in the OGDRs. 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.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 15:50:14.0
Services: | Jason-3 OGDR

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5414
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-04 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-04 00:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | For the release of the new IASI Level 2 PPF version 6.5 on 04/12/2019, (see the URL below), the Data Centre is updating its ordering system to support the generation of the BUFR version of the two new products from AC SAF (Ozone and Nitric Acid). A further announcement will be made when this is completed.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-04 10:45:14.0
Services: | EUMETSAT Data Centre

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5408
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-04 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-04 09:00:00.0
Subject: | new-product
Detail: | Start of distribution of two new IASI Level 2 products from AC SAF, Ozone and Nitric Acid, part of the release of IASI L2 PPF Version 6.5. For full details, see the related URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4686627.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-03 10:14:23.0
Services: | AC SAF - Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5295
Rev: | 3
Start Time: | 2019-12-04 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-04 17:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Release of new IASI Level 2 PPF (Product Processing Facility) version 6.5. For full details and test data, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: Date changed from 05/12/2019 to 04/12/2019. [Rev. 3] End time updated. Please note that the deployment is expected to take up to four hours, during which the products will be unavailable. This will be followed by a high risk period of four hours.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4686627.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-02 15:48:36.0
Services: | IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B IASI Sounding products- Metop-C AC SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5409
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-04 10:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-04 10:20:00.0
Satellites: | MET-8
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Due to ground segment maintenance there is a risk of interruption of the IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 image data and IODC meteorological products for the 10:00 UTC repeat cycle.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-03 13:22:38.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5330
Rev: | 3
Start Time: | 2019-12-04 13:28:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-04 13:40:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subject: | out-of-plane-manoeuvre
Detail: | Out-of-plane manoeuvre. Some instrument data will be unavailable or degraded during this period.The exact burn time and instrument affected outage will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. [Rev 2] Manoeuvre Execution time updated. Burn time = 13:28:25 UTC. Burn duration = 751.254 seconds. [Rev. 3] Updated Burn duration to 675.338 seconds.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-03 09:44:55.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-C AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-C IASI Sounding products- Metop-C MHS Level 1 - Metop-C Multi-sensor Products - Metop-C IASI Level 1 - Metop-C EARS-ATOVS EARS-AVHRR EARS-IASI A-DCS AHRPT Metop-C AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-C AVHRR AHRPT Metop-C HIRS AHRPT Metop-C IASI AHRPT Metop-C MHS AHRPT Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5402
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-04 14:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-02-26 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.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-29 08:41:07.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-C IASI Sounding products- Metop-C AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-C MHS Level 1 - Metop-C Multi-sensor 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: | 5411
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-05 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Update to the Medium Resolution Sea Ice Drift product (OSI-407-a) from OSI SAF. The new version re-introduces an ice mask to limit areas in which to compute ice drift. This removes outliers along the ice edge and in coastal zones. Furthermore, the code has been optimized to reduce processing time. The data format is unchanged. Sample files along with their metadata can be found here: ftp://ftp.dmi.dk/sat/.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-03 14:36:58.0
Services: | OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5410
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-05 10:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-05 10:20:00.0
Satellites: | MET-8
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Due to ground segment maintenance there is a risk of interruption of the IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 image data and IODC meteorological products for the 10:00 UTC repeat cycle.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-03 13:24:08.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5393
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-05 13:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-05 14:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Internet provider change in Eumetsat. Some internet-based applications might be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 14:27:26.0
Services: | Web Service

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5372
Rev: | 3
Start Time: | 2019-12-05 15:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-05 17:30:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Change at NOAA to the VIIRS Active Fire product from SNPP and NOAA-20: addition of a persistent anomaly flag and change to filenames: 'v1r1' will become 'v1r2', e.g.: AF_v1r2_npp_s201910220013452_e201910220015094_c201910220110200-122800_0.nc.gz. [Rev 2]: Date updated. [Rev 3]: Times updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-12-04 08:20:03.0
Services: | VIIRS EDR - Suomi-NPP VIIRS EDR - JPSS

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5400
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-07 18:13:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-07 19:54:00.0
Satellites: | Suomi NPP
Subject: | VIIRS Lunar Roll
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Lunar Calibration.The exact time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 16:05:01.0
Services: | ATMS Level 1 - JPSS VIIRS EDR - JPSS CrIS Level 1 - JPSS EARS-VIIRS SNPP-JPSS

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5401
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-07 19:01:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-07 19:08:00.0
Satellites: | NOAA-20
Subject: | VIIRS Lunar Roll
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Lunar Calibration.The exact time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 16:06:17.0
Services: | ATMS Level 1 - JPSS CrIS Level 1 - JPSS VIIRS EDR - JPSS SNPP-JPSS

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5392
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-09 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-09 09:00:00.0
Subject: | new-product
Detail: | New Sentinel-5P Aerosol Layer Height product to be available on EUMETCast Europe. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4741227.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 12:22:18.0
Services: | Sentinel-5P

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5404
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-09 10:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-09 10:20:00.0
Satellites: | MET-8
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Due to ground segment maintenance there is a risk of interruption of the IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 image data and IODC meteorological products for the 10:00 UTC repeat cycle.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-29 10:54:25.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5353
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-10 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-10 09:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | IASI
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | IASI TOP upload to update the reduced spectra for the on-board processing. Users should expect an instrument outage of around 50 minutes at some point on that day. The exact time will be announced closer to the event.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-28 07:09:45.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B EARS-IASI IASI AHRPT Metop-B OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5391
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-11 12:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-11 12:00:00.0
Satellites: | Sentinel-3A
Subject: | out-of-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | The exact times will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-11-27 10:37:02.0
Services: | OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5293
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
Subject: | service-change
Detail: | Regional EARS data from the USA will no longer be available on EUMETCast from 12/12/2019. For more details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4682634.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-10-23 12:49:46.0
Services: | EARS-ATOVS

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-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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