2025 AVAPS Group Meeting
Agenda
Agenda Track
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We are pleased to share the final draft of the AVAPS Users Group Meeting agenda, shown below. Kindly be advised that this agenda remains subject to potential revisions.
| Date | TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER |
| 4/8 | 8:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 4/8 | 8:30 AM | Opening remarks | Everette Joseph |
| 4/8 | 8:40 AM | Opening remarks | Allison McComiskey |
| 4/8 | 8:50 AM | NCAR Dropsonde program | Holger Vomel |
| 4/8 | 8:55 AM | Introductions | |
| 4/8 | 9:00 AM | NOAA Aircraft Operations Center AVAPS Update | Steven Paul |
| 4/8 | 9:10 AM | NOAA AOC update | Sofia de Solo |
| 4/8 | 9:20 AM | Update Air Force | Mark McCoy |
| 4/8 | 9:35 AM | Vaisala/NCAR NRD41 Dropsonde Update 2024 | Bob Cook |
| 4/8 | 9:50 AM | G550 automated launcher design | Audrey Landis |
| 4/8 | 10:15 AM | Break | |
| 4/8 | 10:30 AM | ASPEN update and plans | Isabel Suhr |
| 4/8 | 10:45 AM | Next Generation AVAPS Control Software | Rick Brownrigg |
| 4/8 | 11:00 AM | NCAR cyber security in software | Gary Granger |
| 4/8 | 11:15 AM | NCAR EOL calibration lab support for dropsondes | Justin Hicks |
| 4/8 | 11:30 AM | Data quality assurance processes | Holger Vomel |
| 4/8 | 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 4/8 | 1:10 PM | Group picture | |
| 4/8 | 1:30 PM | Next Generation AVAPS Telemetry Chassis | Mack Goodstein |
| 4/8 | 1:45 PM | 2024 NOAA Dropsonde observations | Kathryn Sellwood |
| 4/8 | 2:00 PM | Dropsonde Observation Developments and New Visualization tools | Sim Aberson |
| 4/8 | 2:15 PM | Update on SFMR Surface Winds | Heather Holbach |
| 4/8 | 2:30 PM | SFMR sea surface wind validation with 2024 dropsonde observations | Deok-Du Kang |
| 4/8 | 2:45 PM | NASA ARCSIX campaign | Lee Thornhill |
| 4/8 | 3:10 PM | Break | |
| 4/8 | 3:30 PM | Evaluation of newly developed dropsonde for aircraft observations and update on 2024/2025 T-PARCII dropsonde observations |
Sachie Kanada |
| 4/8 | 3:45 PM | KMA/NIMS Dropsonde Observation Status and Updates | Sueng-Pil Jung |
| 4/8 | 4:00 PM | 2024 update for Taiwan Typhoon dropsonde surveillance project | Po-Hsiung |
| 4/8 | 4:15 PM | Update on HKO's Dropsonde Missions | Yin-Iam Danice Ng |
| 4/8 | 4:30 PM | Update on the NOAA G-550 | Alan Goldstein |
| 4/8 | 4:45 PM | Update FAAM | Stephen Devereau |
| 4/8 | 5:00 PM | Close Day 1 | |
| 4/8 | 6:00 PM | Dinner | |
| 4/9 | 8:30 AM | Breakfast | |
| 4/9 | 9:00 AM | NOAA's use of Emerging Technology in Hurricanes: A recap of 2024 and plans for 2025 | Joe Cione |
| 4/9 | 9:15 AM | Micro-dropsondes Dispensing from the Stratosphere for Targeted Atmospheric Data Collection | Ray Chan |
| 4/9 | 9:30 AM | Skyfora update | Kim Kaisti |
| 4/9 | 9:45 AM | UAS Observations During the 2024 Hurricane Season | Jack Elston |
| 4/9 | 10:00 AM | WindBorne Global Sounding Balloons with Dropsondes | Todd Hutchinson |
| 4/9 | 10:15 AM | Studying Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification using AVAPS dropsondes | Stipo Sentic |
| 4/9 | 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 4/9 | 11:00 AM | The Coastal Transition of MCSs off Western Africa during CPEX-CV | Rosimar Rios-Berrios |
| 4/9 | 11:15 AM | Update on Dropsonde-Derived Surface Fluxes in Hurricanes | Mark Bourassa |
| 4/9 | 11:30 AM | Atmospheric boundary layer characteristics during spring 2022 | Jose D. Fuentes |
| 4/9 | 11:45 AM | Round and Round we go - Deriving divergence and omega from the dropsonde measurements during ORCESTRA | Helene Gloeckner |
| 4/9 | 12:00 PM | Air-sea heat fluxes estimation and characteristics based on dropsonde measurements in the seas around the Korean Peninsula | Min-Seong Kim |
| 4/9 | 12:30 PM | Meeting adjourns |