[ROLSS] MSG1-SEVIRI decontamination

[Nicolas Clerbaux]

Dear GERB data user,

Please be aware that GERB level 2 products will not be produced at RMIB from 
11:00 UTC today up to Thursday at 14:00 UTC. This is due to the annual 
decontamination of the SEVIRI instrument. Thanks to the recent launch of a 
second MSG satellite, we can expect that such an interruption will not happen 
anymore in the future.  

Regards,

Nicolas


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EUMETSAT operation message:

Planned activities for week 02/2006:
Due decontamination of the Meteosat-8 SEVIRI, the following outages on the
 SEVIRI services are expected in the 2nd week of January 2006: - No SEVIRI
 images from 13:00 UTC until 15:00 UTC on 09/01/06
- Only SEVIRI visible channels images (HRV, VIS0.6, VIS0.8 and NIR1.6) will
 be available (quality may be degraded) from 15:00 UTC on 09/01/   06 until
 11:00 UTC on 12/01/06. - No SEVIRI images from 11:00 UTC until 14:00 UTC on
 12/01/06.
- Degraded IR images from 14:00 UTC on 12/01/06 until 14:00 UTC on 13/01/06.
 In this period Visible images are available (quality may be degraded). -
 Full imaging mission resumed on 13/01/06 at 14:00 UTC.
- No Meteosat-8 Met products from 09/01/06 at 13:00 UTC until 13/01/06 at
 15:00 UTC.

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Ir. Nicolas CLERBAUX                 
Institut Royal Meteorologique de Belgique,
Section Remote Sensing from Space,           
Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Tel         : +32 2 373 06 10        Fax    :  +32 2 374 67 88
Tel (priv.) : +32 2 376 32 34        E-mail :  nicolas.clerbaux at oma.be