Info EUMETSAT - Message from Eumetsat User Notification Service

Nominal service has been resumed.

The launch of the new User Portal is deferred to 10 January 2024.

We will update the IASI L1 PPF for IASI-B on 11.12.2023

Updates to Radio Occultation (RO) BUFR products: the Spire commercial RO products from EUMETSAT and the ROM SAF will be updated on 11 December 2023. For full details and test data, see the URL provided below.

Planned maintenance activity on Data Tailor. The service may become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period.

Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period.

Planned maintenance activity on Data Store and Data Tailor. Users might experience delays in the updates to the Data Store catalogue.

Data Centre archive maintenance. During this time, catalogue updates and the processing of orders may be delayed. Users are invited to check out the Data Store (https://data.eumetsat.int/)

East-West Station Keeping Manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded image quality and degraded meteorological product quality up to a few hours after the manoeuvre.

Due to ground segment maintenance, there is a risk of interruption or delays for the OSSI indicators (Operational Service Status Indicator) and the UNS (User Notification Service) web services.

Updated satellite and end time.

Planned maintenance activity on Data Tailor. The service may become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period.

East-West Station Keeping Manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded image quality and degraded meteorological product quality up to a few hours after the manoeuvre.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has scheduled Himawari-9 satellite maintenance on 5th Dec and on 7th Dec 2023 as follows: On 5th Dec from 02:40 UTC to 02:50 UTC and from 15:00 UTC to 16:20 UTC. On 7th Dec from 04:00 UTC to 04:40 UTC. During this periods the Himawary imagery will not be available.

SEM MEPED in flight calibration.

SEM MEPED in flight calibration.

Gain Compression

The EUMETSAT Regional Sounder Service, EARS-VASS, is being enhanced with the addition of observations from the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MWHS-II) instrument onboard Feng-Yun-3E. For full details, see the URL provided below.

NOAA-21 EARS-ATMS and EARS-CrIS data will be available on EUMETCast and the GTS from 30 November 2023. For full details, see the URL provided below.

LSA SAF MSG Daily Surface Albedo Version 2 to be available on EUMETCast. For full details, see the URL provided below.

Sentinel-6 data will be accessible in EUMETSAT Data Store from 30 November 2023.

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 Madrid

Data access from the Data Centre is being migrated to the Data Store, for easier and faster access. For full details, see the URL provided below.

Starting 14/02/2023 20:35:57 S3A will start performing SRAL external calibrations over a transponder in Leonessa, Italy. To conduct this transponder pass, the on-board Digital Elevation Model (DEM) altitude value must be temporarily updated in RAM, and is reverted immediately after the pass. A short outage immediately before and after the pass will be introduced, and data should be considered degraded as per non-nominal acquisition mode, for a total duration of approx.28 seconds over the transponder location (42.61607° N, 13.03780° E) for all relative orbits number (RON) 270 from cycle 95 (inclusive) onwards

Starting 02/02/2023 10:28:30 S3B will start performing SRAL external calibrations over a corner reflector site in Spain. To conduct this pass, the on-board Digital Elevation Model (DEM) altitude value must be temporarily updated in RAM, and is reverted immediately after the pass. A short outage immediately before and after the pass will be introduced, and data should be considered degraded as per non-nominal acquisition mode, for a total duration of approx.26 seconds over the transponder location (42.052°N, 0.7300° E) for all relative orbits number (RON) 335 - from cycle 75 (inclusive) onwards

Starting 31/01/2023 09:39:49 S3B will start performing SRAL external calibrations over a transponder site in Leonessa. To conduct this transponder pass, the on-board Digital Elevation Model (DEM) altitude value must be temporarily updated in RAM, and is reverted immediately after the pass. A short outage immediately before and after the pass will be introduced, and data should be considered degraded as per non-nominal acquisition mode, for a total duration of approx.27 seconds over the transponder location (42.61607° N, 13.03780° E) for all relative orbits number (RON) 306 - from cycle 75 (inclusive) onwards.