March 19, 2013

The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team.
Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl.

 
Dear wind product user,
 
Tomorrow, 20 March, an out of plane manoeuvre of Metop-A will be performed which will lead to a considerable outage time of all ASCATwind products. Please read the message from EUMETSAT:
 
"This is a short note to ensure you are informed that, due to the planned double-burn Out Of Plane manoeuvre of METOP-A tomorrow (announced on http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=28), there will be a outage of ASCAT products (all levels, both from the Global and the EARS chain) starting tomorrow 20.03 at about 12:30 UTC (sensing time).We are trying to keep the data outages to the minimum, but due to the burn separation, we expect that the duration for ASCAT will be of at least 18 hours."
 
Best regards,
Anton Verhoef
 
--
KNMI Scatterometer Team
http://www.knmi.nl/scatterometer/
 
For global wind products:
EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice SAF
http://www.osi-saf.org/
 
For scatterometer processing software:
EUMETSAT Numerical Weather Prediction SAF
http://www.nwpsaf.org/
 
For timely ASCAT regional wind products:
EUMETSAT EARS ASCAT service
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Satellites/GroundNetwork/EARSSystem
For other scatterometer matters contact: scat@knmi.nl