2026 AVAPS Group Meeting
Agenda
Agenda Track
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| Date | TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER |
| 4/28 | 8:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 4/28 | 8:30 AM | Opening remarks | Allison McComiskey |
| 4/28 | 8:40 AM | Opening remarks | Terry Hock |
| 4/28 | 8:50 AM | NCAR Dropsonde program | Holger Vomel |
| 4/28 | 8:55 AM | Introductions | |
| 4/28 | 9:00 AM | NOAA Aircraft Operations Center AVAPS Update | Steven Paul |
| 4/28 | 9:10 AM | NOAA AOC update | Sofia de Solo |
| 4/28 | 9:20 AM | 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Operations Updates | Sarah Olson |
| 4/28 | 9:30 AM | Vaisala NRD41 Production Overview | Mike Fowler |
| 4/28 | 9:40 AM | NOAA Aircraft Acquisition Program Updates | Alan Goldstein |
| 4/28 | 9:50 AM | Open Discussion | |
| 4/28 | 10:00 AM | Break | |
| 4/28 | 10:15 AM | AVAPS III overview | Holger Vömel |
| 4/28 | 10:30 AM | Next Generation AVAPS Control Software | Rick Brownrigg |
| 4/28 | 10:45 AM | ASPEN update and plans | Isabel Suhr |
| 4/28 | 11:00 AM | A Web-Based Tool for Visualizing Dropsonde Soundings | Nicholas Johnson |
| 4/28 | 11:15 AM | Next Generation AVAPS Telemetry Chassis | Mack Goodstein |
| 4/28 | 11:30 AM | G550 automated launcher | Audrey Landis |
| 4/28 | 11:45 AM | Open Discussion | |
| 4/28 | 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 4/28 | 1:10 PM | Group picture | |
| 4/28 | 1:30 PM | Saharan dust | Jason Dunion |
| 4/28 | 1:45 PM | The Coastal Transition of a West African Mesoscale Convective System | Rosimar Rios-Berrios |
| 4/28 | 2:00 PM | Evaluation of the AVAPS UT/LS response with the High-Altitude Lidar Observatory Water Vapor DIAL Measurements | Amin Nehrir |
| 4/28 | 2:15 PM | Identifying Showers and Rains Convection with AVAPS Dropsondes | Stipo Sentic |
| 4/28 | 2:30 PM | Atmospheric Thermodynamics Over Leads during 2022 | Jose D Fuentes |
| 4/28 | 2:45 PM | Open Discussion | |
| 4/28 | 3:10 PM | Break | |
| 4/28 | 3:30 PM | Update FAAM | Stephen Devereau |
| 4/28 | 3:45 PM | An Overview of AVAPS Operations During the NASA NURTURE campaign | Lee Thornhill |
| 4/28 | 4:00 PM | KMA/NIMS dropsonde Observation status and updates | Sueng-Pil Jung |
| 4/28 | 4:15 PM | Updates on 2025/2026 MRI/MS8/TparcII Dropsonde Observations in Japan | Munehiko Yamaguchi |
| 4/28 | 4:30 PM | Update on HKO's Dropsonde Missions | Man Lok Chong |
| 4/28 | 4:45 PM | An Initiative to Re-Establish Typhoon Reconnaissance in the Western North Pacific Region | Cory Wolff |
| 4/28 | 5:00 PM | Close Day 1 | |
| 4/28 | 6:00 PM | Dinner | |
| 4/29 | 8:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 4/29 | 8:30 AM | NOAA's Use of Emerging Technology in Hurricanes | Joe Cione |
| 4/29 | 8:45 AM | Micro-dropsondes Dispensing from the Stratosphere for Targeted Atmospheric Data Collection | Ray Chan |
| 4/29 | 9:00 AM | WindBorne Global Sounding Balloons with Dropsondes | Jake Spisak |
| 4/29 | 9:15 AM | Skyfora update | Kim Kaisti |
| 4/29 | 9:30 AM | Use of Dropsonde Observations in ECMWF Data Assimilation | Magnus Lindskog |
| 4/29 | 9:45 AM | Summary of observations from the 2025 Hurricane Field Program and Plans for 2026 | Sim Aberson |
| 4/29 | 10:00 AM | Open Discussion | |
| 4/29 | 10:15 AM | Break | |
| 4/29 | 10:30 AM | Vertical winds from dropsondes | Nicholas Johnson, |
| 4/29 | 10:45 AM | Update on Dropsonde-Derived Surface Fluxes in Hurricanes | Mark Bourassa |
| 4/29 | 11:00 AM | Observing Air–Sea Energy Exchange in Tropical Cyclones Using Collocated Dropsondes, IRsondes, and Ocean Probes | Jun Zhang |
| 4/29 | 11:15 AM | Ocean surface wind measurements | Zorana Jelenak |
| 4/29 | 11:30 AM | Revisiting Dropsonde-based Reduction Factors | Heather Holbach |
| 4/29 | 11:45 PM | TC Research Applications using Dropsondes from HRD's 2025 Hurricane Field Program | Kathryn Sellwood |
| 4/29 | 12:00 PM | Meeting wrap up and final discussions | |
| 4/29 | 12:30 PM | Meeting adjourns |