2026 AVAPS Group Meeting
Agenda
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| 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 |
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| 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 |