2024 AVAPS Group Meeting
The 2024 AVAPS Users Group Meeting activities are show below. The meeting will be hybrid, offering in person and virtual participation.
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Day 1 - Tuesday, April 16
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In person breakfast in EOL Atrium.
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Opening Remarks (Everette Joseph, Director of NCAR)
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Opening Remarks (Allison McComiskey, Director of NCAR/EOL)
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Opening Remarks (Terry Hock, Facility Manager of ISF)
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Introductions
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NOAA AOC AVAPS Update (Steven Paul, NOAA AOC)
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Vaisala NRD41 Dropsonde update (Bob Cook, Vaisala)
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Air Force past season’s dropsonde stats (Cristina Pereda, AF 53rd )
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Short presentation on NOAA Aircraft Recapitalization Activities (Alan Goldstein, NOAA)
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Activities of KMA/NIMS Atmospheric Research Aircraft (NARA) for 2018-2023 (Tae-Young Goo, NIMS)
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Activities at FAAM (Stephen Devereau)
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Open Discussion transition to NRD41
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Break
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ASPEN update and plans (*) (Isabel Suhr, NCAR)
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Next Generation AVAPS Control Software (Rick Brownrigg, NCAR)
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Next Generation AVAPS Telemetry Chassis (Mack Goodstein, NCAR)
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Open Discussion future NCAR technology
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Lunch
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The origin on the NCAR dropsonde program (Holger Vömel, NCAR)
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History of the NCAR dropsonde development (Terry Hock, NCAR)
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Dropsondes in tropical cyclone research and operations, 1949 to the present (*) (Sim Aberson, NOAA AOML)
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Open Discussion History
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Break
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Recent Work on the Impact of Dropsondes on TC Forecasts (*) (Sarah Ditchek, NOAA HRD)
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Science with Dropsondes at HRD in 2023 (*) (Kathryn Sellwood, NOAA HRD)
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ECMWF assimilation of dropsonde data (*) (Bruce Ingleby, ECMWF)
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Sea surface wind measurement enhanced by stepped frequency microwave radiometer: A comprehensive approach
to validation and sensitivity analysis using dropsonde (Deok-Du Kang, NIMS)
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Open Discussion Science
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Meeting adjourns
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Workshop Dinner
NCAR Center Green
3080 Center Green Drive, Boulder, CO 80301
Day 2 - Wednesday, April 17
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In person breakfast in EOL Atrium.
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KMA/NIMS dropsonde observation status and characteristics over the past 6 years (Sueng-Pil Jung, NIMS)
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Review of DOTSTAR 20-year project and next plan on typhoon observation plans (Po-Hsiung Lin, NTU Taiwan)
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NRD41 dropsondes during CAESAR (Holger Vömel, NCAR)
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Overview of the 2022 NASA Convective Processes Experiment - Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) (Ed Nowottnick, NASA)
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Break
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KITsonde the multi-sensor dropsonde system for high resolution measurements - activities and developments
including radioactivity measurements by the German Weather Service (DWD) and upcoming HALO missions NAWIDC
and ASCCI (Andreas Wieser, KIT)
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Assessing the Quality of GNSS Radio Occultation Observations in Tropical Cyclones and Implications for Future
Observations (*) (Nelson Kevin, NASA)
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Updates of the ultralight StreamSonde (Kim Kaisti, Skyfora)
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NOAA sUAS and Streamsonde TC observations in 2023 and a look towards 2024 (Joe Cione, NOAA HRD)
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Open Discussion
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Meeting wrap up
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Meeting adjourns