2026 AVAPS Group Meeting

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2025 AVAPS Group Meeting Agenda
Date  TIME  SESSION  SPEAKER
4/28 8:00 AM Breakfast  
4/28 8:30 AM Opening remarks Everette Joseph
4/28 8:40 AM Opening remarks Allison McComiskey
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  
4/28 9:10 AM NOAA AOC update  
4/28 9:20 AM Update Air Force  
4/28 9:35 AM Vaisala/NCAR NRD41 Dropsonde Update 2024  
4/28 9:50 AM G550 automated launcher design  
4/28 10:15 AM Break  
4/28 10:30 AM ASPEN update and plans  
4/28 10:45 AM Next Generation AVAPS Control Software  
4/28 11:00 AM NCAR cyber security in software  
4/28 11:15 AM NCAR EOL calibration lab support for dropsondes  
4/28 11:30 AM Data quality assurance processes  
4/28 12:00 PM  Lunch  
4/28 1:10 PM Group picture  
4/28 1:30 PM Next Generation AVAPS Telemetry Chassis  
4/28 1:45 PM 2024 NOAA Dropsonde observations  
4/28 2:00 PM Dropsonde Observation Developments and New Visualization tools  
4/28 2:15 PM Update on SFMR Surface Winds  
4/28 2:30 PM SFMR sea surface wind validation with 2024 dropsonde observations  
4/28 2:45 PM NASA ARCSIX campaign  
4/28 3:10 PM Break  
4/28 3:30 PM Evaluation of newly developed dropsonde for aircraft observations and
update on 2024/2025 T-PARCII dropsonde observations
 
4/28 3:45 PM KMA/NIMS Dropsonde Observation Status and Updates  
4/28 4:00 PM 2024 update for Taiwan Typhoon dropsonde surveillance project  
4/28 4:15 PM Update on HKO's Dropsonde Missions  
4/28 4:30 PM Update on the NOAA G-550  
4/28 4:45 PM Update FAAM  
4/28 5:00 PM Close Day 1  
4/28 6:00 PM Dinner  
4/29 8:30 AM Breakfast  
4/29 9:00 AM NOAA's use of Emerging Technology in Hurricanes: A recap of 2024 and plans for 2025  
4/29 9:15 AM Micro-dropsondes Dispensing from the Stratosphere for Targeted Atmospheric Data Collection  
4/29 9:30 AM Skyfora update  
4/29 9:45 AM UAS Observations During the 2024 Hurricane Season  
4/29 10:00 AM WindBorne Global Sounding Balloons with Dropsondes  
4/29 10:15 AM Studying Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification using AVAPS dropsondes  
4/29 10:30 AM Break  
4/29 11:00 AM The Coastal Transition of MCSs off Western Africa during CPEX-CV  
4/29 11:15 AM Update on Dropsonde-Derived Surface Fluxes in Hurricanes  
4/29 11:30 AM Atmospheric boundary layer characteristics during spring 2022  
4/29 11:45 AM Round and Round we go - Deriving divergence and omega from the dropsonde measurements during ORCESTRA  
4/29 12:00 PM Air-sea heat fluxes estimation and characteristics based on dropsonde measurements in the seas around the Korean Peninsula  
4/29 12:30 PM Meeting adjourns