| | 8.1 | Invited Presentation
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| 8:30 AM | 8.2 | What? Make Changes to the Upper Air Observing Program? John B. Jalickee, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Fellows and J. Giraytys |
| 8:45 AM | 8.3 | Operational Potentials and Realities of MDCRS Frederick Toepfer, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Fellows and J. Giraytys |
| 9:00 AM | 8.4 | Verification of RUC-2 forecasts for NAOS Barry Schwartz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Benjamin and T. Schlatter |
| 9:15 AM | 8.5 | Progress in testing hypotheses for the North American Observing System (NAOS) Program Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO |