NOTE: The nws-changes mailing list is no longer active. The list archives are made available for historical reasons.
01 2002 From: "Thomas Renkevens" <Thomas.Renkevens@xxxxxxxx> Topic: GOES Fall 2002 Eclipse and Keep Out Zone Schedules Message Issued: August 01, 2002, 1745 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-8 and GOES-10 Products Impacted: GOES-8 and GOES-10 Imager and Sounder Data Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 16, 2002 -------------------------- Details: GOES-8 and GOES-10 data users: The Fall 2002 Eclipse and Keep Out Zone (KOZ) schedules are now available on our web page at http://www.ssd.noaa.gov or more directly at http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html The schedules are for both the Imager and the Sounder instruments, and are for both GOES-8 and GOES-10. The schedules can be found by clicking on the entry for "GOES Special Bulletins", and scrolling down to the entry for Eclipse Schedules, or by directly following the link: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html Note that all documents can be printed on 8.5" x 11" paper in a landscape paper setting. For your convenience, the eclipse schedules provided in HTML, Word Perfect and Adobe PDF format. Following are times of GOES-8 full disk scanning operations for the period August 16, 2002 to October 16, 2002 in order to provide additional coverage during GOES-10 Keep Out Zone (KOZ) and Eclipse periods: GOES-8 FULL DISK SCANS TO COVER THE GOES-10 KOZ & ECLIPSE: DATE J-DAY TIME AUG 16 - AUG 18 228-230 0845 to 0944Z AUG 19 231 0815 to 0944Z AUG 20 - SEP 04 232-247 0815 to 1014Z SEP 05 - SEP 08 248-251 0815 to 1044Z SEP 09 - OCT 12 252-285 0745 to 1044Z OCT 13 - OCT 16 286-289 0745 to 0944Z For more details on GOES-8 KOZ and Eclipse time periods, please see: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html Following are times of GOES-10 full disk scanning operations for the period August 17, 2002 to October 15, 2002 in order to provide additional coverage during GOES-8 Keep Out Zone (KOZ) and Eclipse periods: GOES-10 FULL DISK SCANS TO COVER THE GOES-8 KOZ & ECLIPSE: DATE J-DAY TIME AUG 17 - AUG 20 229-232 0430 to 0529Z AUG 21 - AUG 28 233-240 0430 to 0629Z AUG 29 241 0400 to 0629Z AUG 30 - SEP 16 242-259 0400 to 0659Z SEP 17 - OCT 07 260-280 0330 to 0659Z OCT 08 - OCT 15 281-288 0400 to 0659Z For more details on GOES-10 KOZ and Eclipse time periods, please see: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html --------------------------------------------- Contact Information: Tom Renkevens Satellite Analysis Branch Satellite Services Division NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD 301-763-8081 x109 thomas.renkevens@xxxxxxxx See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html for full eclipse schedules. See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other satellite related messages. See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov for full GOES scanning schedules. [End of message from WXSAT-L] ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
nws-changes archives: