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,
A spacecraft anomaly first detected on 17 September 2013 of the Metop-B
Solid State Recorder (SSR) requires correction. This anomaly impacted the
enhanced timeliness achieved through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA).
During the recovery period there will be a short interruption to all Metop-B
products. Following the recovery the enhanced timeliness achieved via
ADA will be interrupted for approximately 5 orbits.
The anomaly recovery will take place on 30 September 2013 9:15 UTC and a
short outage of the OSI SAF and EARS ASCAT wind products from Metop-B is
expected.
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/website/home/Satellites/CurrentSatellites/Metop/RegionalDataService/
For other scatterometer matters contact: scat@knmi.nl