Topic: SMOPS outage
Date/Time Issued: August 9th, 2022 1428Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: SMOPS Soil Moisture products
Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 5th, 2022 2000Z
Date/Time of Expected End: August 9th , 2022 1500Z
Length of Event: 91 hours
Details/Specifics of Change: The SMOPS algorithm had an unrecognized
dependency on S-NPP VIIRS data. S-NPP went into safe-hold mode ~16:24:49 UTC on
July 26, 2022; failures only began after it was out for 10 days.
Algorithm has been modified to use either S-NPP or NOAA-20 data (or, eventually,
NOAA-21).
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at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880.
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