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Operational News
Find out about operational issues that may affect availability or quality of ESA EO data.
News - Operational News
Announcement for CryoSat Quaternions Product users
CryoSat users who use the Quaternions Products should be aware that the method to access these products is changing.
News - Operational News
Delay in the Availability of CryoSat Products - Issue Resolved
The CryoSat operational team have successfully resolved a technical issue at the CryoSat Payload Data Ground Segment.
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Delay in the availability of CryoSat Products
A technical issue occurred at the CryoSat Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS).
News - Operational News
New CryoSat Geographical Mode Mask v5.0 now in operation
On 01 May 2023 a new acquisition mask, Geographical Mode Mask v5.0, was put in operation to tackle new scientific challenges and to support the future Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission. The previous mask v4.0 had been in operation since 2019.
News - Operational News
CryoSat NRT availability period reduced
CryoSat scientific users are informed that the persistence time of the Near Real Time (NRT) products on the Science Server will be reduced from 60 days to 42 days.
News - Operational News
Full Bit Rate products released no longer packaged
Following the introduction of native NetCDF data compression with Ice Baseline E, we have decided to distribute Full Bit Rate (FBR) products as separate .HDR and .nc files instead of a packaged .TGZ file as we have done until now.
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New Ice Baseline E and Near Real Time Processors
On 20 September 2021, the new CryoSat Ice Baseline-E processors have been installed into operations within the CryoSat Payload Data Segment (PDS).
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Quality issues in a few CryoSat NRT products over the Arctic
As already noted by users and polar services, a few CryoSat Sea ice and ocean Near Real Time (NRT) products show quality issues over the Arctic domain (about 8% of products affected).
News - Operational News
CryoSat FDM production to end
Starting on 1 February 2021, CryoSat-2 Fast Delivery Marine (FDM) data production will be disabled.
News - Operational News
CryoSat Science Server parallel FTP sessions reminder
CryoSat Science Server users are reminded that, by policy, they cannot have more than 10 parallel FTP sessions opened at one time for download.
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A Closer Look at CRYO2ICE Manoeuvres
Between 16 and 31 July 2020, ESA raised the orbit of Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 to periodically align with NASA’s ICESat-2 in a campaign dubbed CRYO2ICE.
News - Operational News
CRYO2ICE Orbit Raising Campaign: Data Quality Status
During the CRYO2ICE Orbit Raising Campaign, the CryoSat QC team monitored data production between the orbit manoeuvres and performed detailed checks of all Near Real Time (NRT) data generated.
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SIRAL measurements continue during CRYO2ICE
On 16 July, ESA is kicking off its CRYO2ICE campaign that aims to raise CryoSat-2's orbit by approximately 900 metres, bringing it in sync with NASA's ICESat-2.
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Quality of CryoSat Near Real Time production restored
The problem in the delivery of CryoSat auxiliary data has been resolved.
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Degraded quality of CryoSat Near Real time production
Due to a delay in the delivery of auxiliary data all the CryoSat near real time production may be suffering from degraded quality from 22 April.
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CryoSat - Geographical Mode Mask 4.0 released
A new CryoSat Geographical Mode Mask (v 4.0) is operational from Week 34 2019 (19 August - 26 August) onwards.
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CryoSat - CUT v4.1.3 new release
A new version of CUT (CryoSat User Tool) v4.1.3 is now available.
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CryoSat new Geographical Mask in support to the French/US SWOT mission
A new Geographical Mode Mask will be operational from August 2019. It is the basis of the CryoSat mission planning and defines mode switching.
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CryoSat Ice Baseline-D data sample and updated documentation available
Following the CryoSat Quality Working Group meet in November 2018, the upcoming CryoSat Ice Baseline-D data products have been further refined.