Topic: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Emissive Band Calibration scheduled for March 14-16, 2016
Date/Time Issued: March 9, 2016 1615Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Sensor Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 14, 2016 0600Z
Date/Time of Expected End: March 16, 2016 0300Z
Length of Outage: N/A
Details and Specifics of Change: The VIIRS sensor on Suomi-NPP will be conducting its quarterly emissive band calibration on March 14-16th. Due to the VIIRS blackbody temperature changes during the calibration the VIIRS science data quality may be affected for certain applications, but the data is expected to remain within specification.
See below for scheduled blackbody temperature changes.
VIIRS Blackbody Set Point(K) Time (UTC)
297.5 03/14 06:00:00
302.5 03/14 09:00:00
307.5 03/14 12:00:00
312.5 03/14 15:00:00
315.0 03/15 18:00:00
OFF 03/14 21:00:00
272.5 03/15 21:00:00
282.5 03/16 00:00:00
292.5 03/16 03:00:00
Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880