| Start date | End date (short events) | Event type | Affected data | Description |
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| 01/01/2017 | 03/01/2017 | Outage | AIRS |
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| 10/01/2017 |
| Technical change | AQUA/AMSUA | Change to allow AQUA/AMSUA channels to be used without need for channels 1 and 2 which failed in September 2016.The instrument is still passive |
| 12/01/2017 |
| Re-activation | FY-3B/MWHS |
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| 12/01/2017 |
| Re-activation | AQUA/AMSUA |
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| 13/01/2017 |
| Blacklist update | In-situ | Monthly update of in-situ data blacklist |
| 14/01/2017 | 16/01/2017 | Outage | FY-3C (MWHS2 and IRAS) |
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| 03/02/2017 | 06/02/2017 | Outage | FY-3C (MWHS2 and IRAS) |
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| 07/02/2017 |
| Blacklist update | In-situ | Update of the monthly blacklist.Apart from the usual blacklist (of deteriorated) and white-list (of improved) we activated BUFR radiosondes for many WMO blocks: 07, 16 and 85. |
| 02/03/2017 |
| Activation | MET-8 data (AMV and ASR) | Activation of MET-8 data (AMV and ASR) |
| 02/03/2017 |
| Blacklist | MET-7 data (AMV and ASR) | Permanent blacklist of MET-7 |
| 06/03/2017 |
| New data format | ACARS becomes AMDAR | Change of ACARS encoding format to WIGOS AMDAR. All ACARS are now seen as AMDAR |
| 06/03/2017 |
| Blacklist update | In-situ | Monthly update of in-situ data blacklist |
| 08/03/2017 | 14/03/2017 | Blacklist | ATMS | Temporary blacklist of ATMS due to a change of the processing at the level of the data provider leading to a significant change of the bias. The blacklist is needed to allow an adaptation of VarBC |
| 14/04/2017 | 14/05/2017 | Outage | FY-3C/IRAS |
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| 26/04/2017 |
| Quality issues | FY-3C/MWHS2 | Increase of noise of FY-3C/MWHS2 CH2 and change of bias of other FY-3C/MWHS2 channels. The cause of the sudden change is unknown. |
| 28/04/2017 |
| Data cessation | NOAA-15/AMSUA EARS | EARS NOAA-15/AMSUA stopped being produced due to poor signal performance on the HRPT downlink causing product processing to frequently fail |
| 22/05/2017 |
| Outage | Jason2 | Jason-2 in safe mode |
| 31/05/2017 | 21/06/2017 | Blacklist | Metop-A AMSUA | Blacklist of Metop-A AMSUA Channel due to intermittent noise increase |
| 07/06/2017 |
| Activation | Metop-A GRAS | Activation of tropospheric GRAS data (thanks to the new optic wave processing introduced by EUMETSAT last year) |
| 21/06/2017 |
| Re-activation | Metop-A/AMSUA Ch5 | Activation of Metop-A/AMSUA Ch5 |
| 04/07/2017 |
| Blacklist update | In-situ | Monthly update of in-situ data blacklist |
| 14/07/2017 |
| New data | BUFR SYNOP | Substantial increase of BUFR SYNOP data from Spain. these stations belong to AEMET's second-tier automatic weather stations. They have not been 'verified' or added to OSCAR but work on this will start after the summer break. Some stations have data quality issues |
| 20/07/2017 |
| New data monitored | FY-3C/GNOS | Passive monitoring of FY-3C/GNOS |
| 20/07/2017 |
| Data resumption | Jason2 | Jason2 wave height is back after a long outage |
| 31/07/2017 | 03/08/2017 | Outage | AQUA/AIRS | Outage of AQUA/AIRS caused by an update of the processing algorithm |
| 2/08/2017 |
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| Metop-B/IASI | Significant bias change (up to 0.2K) affected Metop-B/IASI due to an update of the on-board processing to improve the non-linearity correction for IASI-B |
| 3/08/2017 |
| New data | Moored buoys | Increased number of moored buoys around Spain. The reason is likely to be the use of approved BUFR template. |
| 11/09/2017 |
| Blacklist update | In-situ | Monthly blacklisting update including the use of HRes BUFR TEMP from USA and some HRes BUFR from Turkey |
| 10/10/2017 |
| Blacklist update | In-situ | Monthly blacklist update including activation of many BUFR radiosondes from Canada |
| 10/10/2017 | 25/10/2017 | Quality issues | NOAA-19 MHS | On board anomaly affected NOAA-19 MHS. On 11/10/2017 the instrument has been blacklisted |
| 11/10/2017 |
| New data | AMDAR | New AMDAR data set over the North Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. The data are from Aircraft currently reporting as AIREP. |
| 25/10/2017 |
| Re-activation | NOAA-18/AMSUA | Activation of NOAA-18/AMSUA Channels 5 and 8 after 18 months of being blacklisted as the noise has been consistently reduced |
| 21/11/2017 |
| Technical issue | EARS AMSUA | Problem in the encoding of originating center for AMSUA leading to EARS AMSUA data being used as part of the global stream. |
| 23/11/2017 |
| Improved quality | FY-3C/GNOS | Fix by CMA of FY-3C GNOS processing. The fix removed the bias |
| 11/12/2017 |
| New data | AIREP | increased AIREP data over the Indian Ocean |
| 14/12/2017 |
| Blacklist | GEOS-13 | Permanent Blacklist of GEOS-13 geostationary data |