February 26, 2013
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado

For Boulder participants, we will be meeting in FL1, room 2133.

For outside participants, or those who are too lazy to attend in person, we will also be using Readytalk as follows:

Audio Dial-In Information: U.S. & Canada: 866.740.1260 U.S. Toll: 303.248.0285 Access Code: 4978635

For Web access (presentations, etc) please point your browsers to: http://www.readytalk.com/ on "Join a meeting" enter the same access code 4978380

The primary purpose of this meeting is to present any significant updates in planning since the December workshop.

We will begin with reports from the various Working Groups, as were identified in my previous MPEX email. More specifically, it would be good to get a brief update from the following people:

• Dropsonde/FAA aircraft issues: Pavel Romashkin
• Dropsonde/dropsonde testing: Terry Hock
• Upsonde Operations planning: Jeff Trapp
• Forecasting/Nowcasting plans: Craig Schwartz
• Realtime Modeling: Glen Romine, Ryan Torn, Dave Dowell or John Brown
• MTP Operations: Chris Davis, Julie Haggerty
• Field Catalogue/Data Archival: Greg Stossmeister, Steve Williams
• General Ops: Jim Moore

NOTE: If you have any summary "update" slides to present, it would be helpful if you could email them to me prior to the meeting so that they will be readily available on the web. Also, if you have material to present or issues to bring up and will not be able to attend Tuesday's meeting, please send them along to me and I can present them for you.

Other general topics of discussion will include:

• Personnel needs.
• Operations plan.
• Further retrospective testing.
• Education and outreach..
• Anything else???? .for instance, a LOGO????