Topic: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Emissive Band Calibration scheduled for December 14-16, 2015
Date/Time Issued: December 14, 2015 0155Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Sensor Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 14, 2015 0600Z
Date/Time of Expected End: December 16, 2015 0300Z
Length of Outage: TBD
Details/Specifics of Change: The VIIRS sensor on Suomi-NPP will be conducting its quarterly emissive band calibration on December 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 12/14 06:00:00
302.5 12/14 09:00:00
307.5 12/14 12:00:00
312.5 12/14 15:00:00
315.0 12/15 18:00:00
OFF 12/14 21:00:00
272.5 12/15 21:00:00
282.5 12/16 00:00:00
292.5 12/16 03:00:00
Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880