{"id":80614,"date":"2013-07-23T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/final-cal-val-activities-completed-metop-b-products-operational\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T01:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T17:00:03","slug":"final-cal-val-activities-completed-metop-b-products-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/final-cal-val-activities-completed-metop-b-products-operational\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Cal\/Val Activities Completed, Metop B Products Operational"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"140\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/IMG_END_METOPCALVAL_FIG1_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<em>Cloud fraction retrieved from IASI-A and IASI-B on January 22, 2013<\/em><br \/>\nImage credit: Eumesat\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Satellite TODAY 07-22-13] <b>Eumetsat<\/b> announced that Calibration and Validation (cal\/val) activities concluded after the final Product Validation Review Board (PVRB) meeting declared the IASI Level 2 (L2) products derived from Metop B operational. Additionally, the ATOVS Level 2 Products were globally validated against radiosonde data, ECMWF data, and coincident Metop A and <b>NOAA<\/b> 19 ATOVS Level 2 products, and declared operational.These milestones not only mark the end of Cal\/Val, but also the end of the Metop B commissioning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The calibration and validation of the Metop B products began as soon as the SIOV activities permitted. Trial distribution of the first products started a few days after launch. Since April 24, 2013, Metop B has been the prime operational satellite.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eumesat is looking forward to many years of smooth Metop B operations, in parallel to Metop A, in support of which GOME 2 tandem operations have recently started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud fraction retrieved from IASI-A and IASI-B on January 22, 2013 Image credit: Eumesat [Satellite TODAY 07-22-13] Eumetsat announced that Calibration and Validation (cal\/val) activities concluded after the final Product Validation Review Board (PVRB) meeting declared the IASI Level 2 (L2) products derived from Metop B operational. Additionally, the ATOVS Level 2 Products were globally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}