Session 7 | 
|   | New Observations | 
|   | Chair: Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO 
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 | 3:30 PM | 7.1 | Upper atmosphere humidity measurement with the APS sensor—1st progress report on the Vaisala Reference Radiosonde Program     Heikki Turtiainen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and H. Jauhiainen, J. Lentonen, V. P. Viitanen, P. Survo, and W. F. Dabberdt | 
 | 3:45 PM | 7.2 | Improvement of interpolation techniques for APHRO_PR, a new gauge-based high-resolution daily precipitation data    Kenji Kamiguchi, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and O. Arakawa | 
 | 4:00 PM | 7.3 | Recent research on meteorological observations and instrumentation at KNMI     Hannelore I. Bloemink, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and M. J. de Haij and W. M. F. Wauben | 
 | 4:15 PM | 7.4 | Upper-air observations from driftsondes and dropsondes over Pacific Ocean from THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC)    Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Young and L. Zhang | 
 | 4:30 PM | 7.5 | Using weather balloon launches to understand the Fairbanks surface-based temperature inversion lifecycle    Julie A. Malingowski, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and D. Atkinson, J. Cherry, E. Stevens, and D. Morton | 
 | 4:45 PM | 7.6 | Integration of NEXRAD, marine radar, sodar and conventional anemometry for avian risk assessment     Kathleen E. Moore, Integrated Environmental Data, Berne, NY; and D. J. Capuano and J. A. Henningson | 
 | 5:00 PM | 7.7 | SMARTSonde: A Small Multi-function Autonomous Research and Teaching Sonde    Phillip B. Chilson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and N. Feng, B. Zielke, A. M. Gleason, P. M. Klein, T. A. Bonin, M. B. Yeary, W. Shalamunenc, A. G. Striz, P. Greenway, M. Jones, and J. Langston | 
 | 5:15 PM | 7.8 | Observations of Pressure Perturbations Within Heat Devils    Steven P. Oncley, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and O. K. Hartogensis |