Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 34

Date/Time Issued: August 18, 2022 1552Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: .August 18, 2022 1451Z (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)

Date/Time of Expected End: See table in detail for on and off switch time(s).
Details/Specifics of Change:

Message number: | 9539
Message creation: | Thu Aug 18 14:51:07Z 2022

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 7582
Rev: | 7
Start Time: | 2021-12-07 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-10-03 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Event End date updated
Revision History: | [Original] Calibrations to support transponder test.. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. [Rev. 2] Event End date updated. [Rev. 3] Event End date updated. [Rev.4] Event End date updated. [Rev.5] Event End date updated [Rev.6] Event End date updated
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-07-12 08:08:02.0
Services: | ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8521
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-01 00:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | The 300m Burnt Area V1.2.1 (BA) from the Copernicus Global Land Service has been discontinued since June 2022. The Copernicus Global Land Service is preparing to release version 3 of the 300m Burnt Area (BA) product. More details will be available in due course.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-02 14:11:11.0
Services: | Copernicus Global Land service

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8591
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-22 20:15:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-25 23:15:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-delay
Detail: | McMurdo MG1 monthly Maintenance. The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system may be interrupted. Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness may be available during this period. The maintenance period is the following: on 22 August from 20:15 to 21:15 UTC and from 22:00 to 23:00 UTC, on 23 August from 01:20 to 02:20 UTC, from 20:00 to 21:00 UTC and from 21:30 to 22:30, on 24 August from 02:40 to 03:40 UTC, from 19:30 to 20:30 UTC and from 21:15 to 22:15, on 25 August from 02:15 to 03:15 UTC and from 19:15 to 23:15 UTC.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-18 14:10:31.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B MHS Level 1 - Metop-B AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B Multi-Metop Wind Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 7414
Rev: | 4
Start Time: | 2022-07-19 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-10-20 08:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Updates to start and end times of the parallel dissemination of the old and new formats of Meteosat meteorological products. The times indicated (08:00 UTC) should be read as being 08:00 - 10:00 UTC.
Revision History: | [Rev.1] File formats of Meteosat meteorological products distributed on EUMETCast are planned to be updated in October 2022. At the same time, there will be a small change in the timestamp of the AMV products distributed on the GTS. For full details and test data, see the URL provided below. [Rev.2] The operational switch to the new WMO compliant format for the Meteosat meteorological products distributed on EUMETCast will take place on 20 October 2022. There will be a parallel dissemination on EUMETCast of the old and new formats from 19 July to 20 October 2022.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/change-file-formats-meteosat-meteorological-products
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-07-07 13:44:14.0
Services: | 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8444
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-07-28 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2023-01-03 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | GOES-18 ABI L1b data will be distributed in parallel to GOES-17 ABI L1b data from 28 July 2022 to 3 January 2023. Users wishing to receive the parallel GOES-18 ABI L1b data stream should contact our User Service Helpdesk (ops@eumetsat.int). For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/parallel-dissemination-goes-18-abi-data
Issue Time: | 2022-07-13 15:48:18.0
Services: | GOES Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8519
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-06 06:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-09-04 12:00:00.0
Satellites: | GOES-17
Subject: | instrument-special-operation
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | NOAA will conduct a GOES-West ABI Cooling Timeline Operation from 06 August – 04 September 2022, every day from 06:00 to 12:00 UTC. During this phase, GOES-17 operations mode will change from MODE 6 to MODE 3, and this will affect the GOES-West ABI data distribution on EUMETCast. GOES-17 L2 products (ASR and CSR) are expected to be missing throughout the GOES-17 ABI cooling timeline periods. For full details, see the URL provided below. Users wishing to receive the MODE 3 data should contact our User Helpdesk at ops@eumetsat.int.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/goes-17-abi-mode-3-cooling-timeline-implementation-2022
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-03 07:20:39.0
Services: | GOES Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8532
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-12 20:30:00.0
End Time: | 2022-10-02 01:30:00.0
Satellites: | MET-9
Subject: | eclipse-season
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 20:30 to 23:00 in the given time period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-03 14:06:49.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8586
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-20 11:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-20 11:10:00.0
Satellites: | GOES-16
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Detail: | A GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 20 August 2022. Between 11:00 and 11:05 UTC GOES-16 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G16_s20222321110[SSS]_e20222321115[SSS]_c202223211[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 11:10 UTC
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-18 11:29:56.0
Services: | GOES Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8587
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-20 16:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-20 16:10:00.0
Satellites: | GOES-16
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Detail: | A GOES-16 ABI routine desert monitoring calibration scan is planned on 20 August 2022 from 16:00 UTC o 16:05 UTC. Between 16:05 UTC and 16:10 UTC GOES-16 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G16_s20222321605[SSS]_e20222321610[SSS]_c202223216[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 16:10 UTC
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-18 11:34:08.0
Services: | GOES Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8585
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-22 14:43:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-22 14:50:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Gain Compression
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-17 13:36:28.0
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: | 8581
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-23 07:30:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-23 12:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | service-unavailable
Detail: | Planned maintenance activity on Data Store, Data Tailor and EUMETView. Services may become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-17 13:17:33.0
Services: | Data Store and Data Tailor Web Service EUMETView

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8588
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-23 07:35:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-23 07:50:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | NOAA ground segment testing exercise. There is a risk of interruption to Metop-C data in the indicated time period
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-18 11:49:19.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C IASI Sounding products- Metop-C AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-C AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-C ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C AVHRR Polar winds - Metop-C MHS Level 1 - Metop-C IASI Level 1 - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C Multi-sensor Products - Metop-C GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-C GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C OSI SAF - Products AC SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8583
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-23 08:13:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-23 08:20:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-17 13:34:26.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8584
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-23 09:06:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-23 09:13:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-17 13:35:12.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8582
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-24 07:30:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-24 11:30:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | service-degraded
Detail: | Planned maintenance activity on Data Store, Data Tailor and EUMETView. Services may show reduced performance during the maintenance period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-17 13:29:11.0
Services: | Data Store and Data Tailor Web Service EUMETView

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8590
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-24 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-24 11:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Commercial Radio Occultation service maintenance with a risk of interruptions in the indicated time window.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-18 14:04:25.0
Services: | Commercial Radio Occultation data

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8580
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-25 08:03:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-25 08:39:00.0
Satellites: | Sentinel-3A
Subject: | out-of-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-17 12:18:15.0
Services: | SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3A SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8589
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-25 13:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-09-02 13:00:00.0
Satellites: | GOES-17
Subject: | instrument-maintenance
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | GOES-17 ABI Focal Plane Module (FPM) Set Point adjustment will be performed to mitigate the impacts of the elevated focal plane module (FPM) temperatures on infrared imagery. During the given time window when the setpoint is above 88 K, the Clear Sky Radiances and All Sky Radiances (CSR/ASR) products will not be produced. For more information see URL below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/documents/GOES-17%20ABI%20Saturated%20Prediction%20Reference%20Tools%20February%202022%20.pdf
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-18 14:43:49.0
Services: | GOES Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8531
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-25 22:30:00.0
End Time: | 2022-10-14 01:30:00.0
Satellites: | MET-10
Subject: | eclipse-season
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 22:30 to 01:00 next day in the given time period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-03 14:05:08.0
Services: | RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8530
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-29 23:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-10-15 01:30:00.0
Satellites: | MET-11
Subject: | eclipse-season
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 23:00 to 01:30 next day in the given time period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-03 14:07:11.0
Services: | 0° SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8559
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-08-31 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-31 08:01:00.0
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.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-08-10 14:11:05.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B MHS Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B Multi-Sensor Products - 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 GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-B GRAS AHRPT Metop-B HIRS AHRPT Metop-B MHS AHRPT Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B IASI AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8060
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2022-10-05 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-10-05 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | [REV 1] The CSR product will be discontinued on 5 October 2022 instead of the originally planned date of 30 June 2022.
Revision History: | [Original] Meteosat SEVIRI Clear Sky Radiances (CSR) product to be discontinued. For more details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/meteosat-csr-product-be-discontinued
Issue Time: | 2022-06-23 08:18:18.0
Services: | 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 7033
Rev: | 6
Start Time: | 2022-11-15 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-11-15 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | New date: Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated in mid-November 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: | [Rev.1] Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated in November 2021 (exact date to be announced in due course). For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: The update is being deferred to Q1 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. [Rev. 3]: A live test data stream has been put in place. For details on how to access the data and how to use them, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 4]: The update is being deferred to Q4 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. [Rev.5] New date: Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated on 15 August 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/changes-pc-compressed-iasi-l1c-data
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-07-13 15:38:21.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 7329
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2022-12-23 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-12-23 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | The transponder migration for the EUMETCast Europe High Volume Service will include a parallel downlink period where the old and new transponders will be used from 24 November to 23 December 2022. The service on the old transponder will stop on 23 December 2022.
Revision History: | [Rev.1] Transponder migration for the EUMETCast Europe High Volume Service planned for Q3 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetcast-europe-service-transponder-migration
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-12 11:44:14.0
Services: | EUMETCast-Europe

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