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Start dateEnd date (short events)Event typeAffected dataDescription
01/01/202001/01/2020Technical outageMost of the data

A piece of code designed to cope with 2K year bug caused rejection of most of the data for 06 BC, 00 LWDA and 12 DA cycles. An emergency fix was implemented to fix the problem.

01/01/202014/01/2020 Technical outageSmall subset of Ocean in-situ data reporting in TAC: XBTs and CTDs Due to a technical problem a small subset of Ocean in-situ data reporting in TAC (XBTs and CTDs) were rejected. This  affected the NRT ocean5 data assimilation. The problem has been fixed and the missing data were re-processed. The delayed ocean5 data assimilation will not be affected.
03/01/202014/01/2020OutageFY-3B/MWHSCMA requested EUMETSAT to stop the distribution of the data due to a switch over of the scan mode. At the time of the outage the data quality was nominal
08/01/2020
Blacklist updateIn-situ data

Monthly update of in-situ data blacklist. In addition to the usual blacklist/whitelist of individual stations this update contains other significant changes: Activation of BUFR Radiosonde and PILOTs from CHINA. Activation BUFR SHIP BUOYS and deactivatation TAC counterparts.

Update: The blacklist was postponed for one day to fix a small technical issue causing a small reduction of Automatic SYNOPs in few areas. Problem fixed on 09/01/2020

09/01/2020
ActivationAeolus windsAfter months of successful  testing and improvement of the bias correction winds from Aeolus are activated. For more info please check https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2020/ecmwf-starts-assimilating-aeolus-wind-data
13/01/2020
BlacklistMeteosat-11 AMV and ASRTemporary blacklist during Meteosat-11 SEVIRI decontamination
23/01/2020
New data monitoringPAZ GPSROMonitoring of GPSRO from the Spanish satellite PAZ (https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satelliteprogrammes/view/123)
30/01/2020
Re-activationMeteosat-11 AMVs and ASR
The data  are activated further to a successful decontamination of SEVIRI. The data quality are unaffected.
31/01/2020
Data outageJason-3 (Surface wind, wave height and sea-level anomaly)Satellite in safe mode
01/02/2020
Data outageSARAL Altika (Surface wind, wave height and sea-level anomaly)

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