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NRT Notification Detail
| GRAS product quality degradation due to geomagnetic storm
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DATE: 2010-08-05 07:40
TYPE: NRT-GTS
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| Description
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| Dear GRAS SAF GTS user

Issued 2010-08-05 7:40 UTC

Upstream GRAS level 1 b data has been slightly degraded since yesterday around 10:00 UTC.

Please see detailed message from Eumetsat below.

Kind regards
The GRAS SAF Team

Subject: GRAS product quality degradation due to geomagnetic storm
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:18:11 +0200
From: Christian Marquardt <Christian.Marquardt@eumetsat.int>

Dear all,

since earlier today, 04 August 2010 around 10:00 UTC, we experience slightly degraded 
level 1 data quality due to an impact of geomagnetic storms on our operational orbit estimation.
We currently see systematic biases in the order of 1 micro radians or less at altitudes around
60 km, with opposite signs for rising and setting occultations. Data quality below 35 km should
be fine.

We are monitoring the situation and consider a re-initialisation of the orbit estimation tomorrow
morning in case data quality becomes worse. In any case, we'll keep you informed...

With kind regards,

 Christian.


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Dr. Christian Marquardt, Polar System Product Expert
EUMETSAT, Am Kavalleriesand 31, D-64295 Darmstadt, Germany
Tel: +49-6151-807456, Fax: +49-6151-807304
Email: christian.marquardt@eumetsat.int, Web: http://www.eumetsat.int 

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