Operations Weekly Schedule
Issued on 22/01/09 at 14:40:22
Seq Nr: 1
Planned activities for week 05/2009:
RAPID SCANNING SERVICE: METEOSAT-8
None foreseen
0 DEGREE SERVICE: METEOSAT-9
None foreseen
EUMETCast
We are pleased to announce the inclusion of new OSI-SAF products on
EUMETCast as of 27/01/09.
The Metop Global SST and the Metop Northern Atlantic and Regional Seas
SST products are available twice per day in GRIB-2 format.
EUMETCast requirements:
Files will appear on the channel "EUMETSAT Data Channel 3" (PID 301,
multicast address 224.223.222.23:2611) The filenames start
with "S-OSI_-FRA_-MTOP-GLBSST" and "S-OSI_-FRA_-MTOP-NARSST" with full
details provided in the Metop/AVHRR SST Product User Manual,
see http://www.osi-saf.org. All users already registered for OSI-SAF
products will automatically get the new products.
GROUND SEGMENT
Due to essential maintenance on 26/01/09 between 13.00 and 15.00 UTC,
there is a risk of interruption to the following services.
0 Degree Service
0 Deg. SEVIRI High Rate Meteosat-9 Foreign
Satellite Data
0 Deg. SEVIRI Low Rate Meteosat-9 Meteorlogical
Data Distribution
0 Deg. Meteorlogical Products Meteosat-9 Data
Collection and Retransmission Service
RSS Service
SEVIRI High Rate Meteosat-8
SEVIRI Low Rate Meteosat-8
Meteorlogical Products Meteosat-8
The EUMETSAT Archive will be carrying out essential maintenance on
27/01/09 between 09:00 to 11:00 UTC.
During this period orders will not be processed and catalogue updates
are suspended.
We apologise for the inconvenience and thank our users for their
understanding.
EUMETSAT plans to perform Meteosat-7 ground segment maintenance causing
an interruption of the Meteosat-7
Meteorological product generation on 29/01/09 from 08:30 UTC for 2
hours, followed by a high risk period of 4 hours.
Please note, there will be a change to the MPE product.
For details please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Media/News/708961
FOREIGN SATELLITE DATA
None foreseen
IODC INFORMATION
None foreseen
FUTURE EVENTS
Changes to Archive delivery media: the EUMETSAT Archive will introduce
LTO-4 tapes as a delivery medium in early 2009.
The following delivery media will be phased out:
- DDS4 and DAT-72 tapes - end January 2009.
- DDS2 tapes - end June 2009.
If users have any queries regarding this change, please address them to:
ops@xxxxxxxxxxxx
INFORMATION:
For further information, please contact the EUMETSAT User Services Helpdesk
Tel: +49 6151 807 366
Fax: +49 6151 807 379
Email: ops@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.eumetsat.int