Topic:  Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule

Date/Time Issued: February 26, 2015   1543 UTC

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact:   February  26, 2015  1454  UTC  (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:

Weekly Operations Schedule

Issued on 26/02/15 at 14:54:01

Seq Nr: 1

Planned activities for week 10/2015:

GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION
Meteosat Straylight.
Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Winter/Spring 2015 are available
on EUMETSAT website:
http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Data/ServiceStatus/in
(See section Meteosat > Straylight Predictions (XML))

26 February 2015 - 15 March 2015
Sun interference may affect the EUMETCast broadcast satellites.
Users might experience lower signal margin or outages on EUMETCast.
The exact times and durations of the signal degradation or outages
depend on the reception location.
Please see: http://www.satellite-calculations.com/Satellite/suninterf
Satellite information:
- EUMETCast Europe DVB-S2: EUTELSAT 10A
- EUMETCast Africa: EUTELSAT 5 WEST A
- EUMETCast Americas: SES-6


METEOSAT RSS
05 March 2015  09:00 - 15:00 UTC
Essential ground segment maintenance.
During this maintenance period there is a risk of interruption to
the Rapid Scan Service.


METEOSAT IODC
27 January 2015 - 28 March 2015
Meteosat-7 Spring eclipse season
Slots 38 to 43 may not be available.


METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
01 March 2015 00:34 - 00:49 UTC
S-NPP - VIIRS Lunar Roll
During this time ATMS and CrIS data from S-NPP may not be available.

03 March 2015 09:59 - 10:15 UTC
Metop-B - MHS Machine Error Counter Reset A short outage of all MHS
products can be expected.

05 March 2015 05:12 - 09:12 UTC
Metop-B - IASI External Calibration
IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available.


METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT
03 March 2015 08:45 - 08:51 UTC (Metop-A)
03 March 2015 09:39 - 09:45 UTC (Metop-B) SEM MPED in flight
calibration A short outage of all SEM products can be expected at
these times.


REGIONAL DATA SERVICES
11 February 2015 - 08 March 2015
Muscat: EARS-ATOVS and ASCAT products will not be available from
Muscat HRPT station due to scheduled maintenance.


DATA CENTRE
03 March 2015  09:00 UTC to 14:00 UTC
Data Centre Archive Database Maintenance
During this time, there will be no access to the Data Centre online
ordering application, and no order will be processed.


THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
05 March 2015
MTSAT-2 system maintenance
The 21:00 UTC image will not be available.

04 March 2015 - 08 March 2015
MTSAT-2 sun co-linearity
The 03:00 UTC image may not be available.


JASON-2
05 March 2015 11:12 UTC
Jason-2 Manoeuvre.
OGDR, OGDR-SSHA and OGDR-BUFR products may be degraded for 2 hours
after the manoeuvre. This will affect the sea surface height, but
not the wind and wave content in the products.


FUTURE EVENTS
THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
25 March 2015
Change to SARAL BUFR OGDRs: the SARAL BUFR formatting software will
be updated to Version 1.5.
For full details, see:	http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2520499.html

26 March 2015
Update to the Corrected Sea Surface Height products from CNES-AVISO
For full details and test data, see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2555027.html




INFORMATION:
For further information, please contact the EUMETSAT User Services
Helpdesk
Tel: +49 6151 807 366
Fax: +49 6151 807 379
Email: ops@eumetsat.int
www.eumetsat.int



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