NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Customers or users who want to call to ask about problems or report outages can use the following contacts:

– For questions about data quality (noisy data, dropouts, schedules), GOES or POES products, or status of spacecraft can call the SAB Shift Supervisor at 301-763-8444

– To report an outage or document a problem, call the ESPC Operations Crew Lead at 301-457-5218. All LRIT data users are encouraged to report problems to: LRIT@noaa.gov

DOY 052

GOES
All GOES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.
No anomalies affecting product delivery via GVAR or s/c health & safety.
For GOES status and other information please see:
http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes

POES
All POES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.
No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety.
For a detailed status and description of POES see:
http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poes

DMSP
All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.
No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety.
For more DMSP Information please see:
http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp.html

JASON-2
All JASON-2 operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.
No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety.

ESPC Reported data outage and delays
ESPC stopped receiving data from NASA’s AURA Mircowave Limb Sounder Instrument (MLS) on DOY050. According to NASA the instrument is in survival mode and they are investigating. Products from the MLS are used in climate studies and are not used in NCEP models.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov