Subject: MissionNotice MN022483 Suomi-NPP VIIRS Emissive Band Calibration scheduled for Sept 15-17, 2014
Description_Title: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Emissive Band Calibration scheduled for Sept 15-17, 2014
MN_ID: MN022483
Date_Time: 2014-09-12 15:33:41
Mission_Notice_Text: Mission Notice Status: Open
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Sensor Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: Sept 15, 2014 0600 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: Sept 17, 2014 0300 UTC
Length of Outage: N/A
Details/Specifics of Change: The VIIRS sensor on Suomi-NPP will be conducting its quarterly emissive band calibration on September 15-17th. 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 9/15 06:00:00
302.5 9/15 09:00:00
307.5 9/15 12:00:00
312.5 9/15 15:00:00
315.0 9/15 18:00:00
OFF 9/15 21:00:00
272.5 9/16 21:00:00
282.5 9/17 00:00:00
292.5 9/17 03:00:00