17 December 2025 Regional Focus Group meeting (130)
"A summary of the most Significant or Favourite Events of the Year 2025 as revealed in Satellite Imagery".
Topics of discussion included:
- Introduction: Recording, 1minute duration.
- Hail Storm Analysis in Brisbane using GIS and Satellite Imagery: presented by Rion Salman, BMKG Indonesia. Recording, 14 minutes duration.
- Hail in the Samoan Archipelago: presented by Timothy J. Wagner, SSEC / University of Wisconsin Madison. Recording, 11 minutes duration.
- Explosive cyclogenesis over the south Tasman Sea on 23 October 2025: presented by Chris Webster, Met Service New Zealand. Recording, 13 minutes duration.
- Sunglint around New Georgia (S.I.) and Bougainville (PNG) on 15 September 2025: presented by Bodo Zeschke, Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre on behalf of Frank Bale and Richard Huka, Solomon Islands Meteorological Service. Recording, 13 minutes duration.
- Questions and Summary: Recording, 6 minutes duration.
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27 November 2025 Regional Focus Group meeting (129)
Topic of discussion included:
- A summary of the 15th Asia Oceania Meteorological Satellite User Conference (AOMSUC-15): presented by Bodo Zeschke, Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre.
- Follow up actions to AOMSUC-15, including a short Regional Case Study: presented by Bodo Zeschke, Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre.
Note the recording of this session was not properly rendered. The .pdf file with comment slides is attached HERE
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23 September 2025 Regional Focus Group meeting (128)
Topic of discussion included:
- A Weather and Forecast Discussion, including examination of Forecasts using AI, and Satellite Derived Soundings. Presented by Bodo Zeschke, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre. Recording, 50 minutes duration.
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22 July 2025 Regional Focus Group meeting (127)
Topics of discussion included:
- Using CIMSS Tools to Explore the Lewotobi Eruption, Indonesia: Timothy J. Wagner, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Space Science and Engineering Centre (SSEC) / University of Wisconsin Madison. Recording, 24 minutes duration.
- Preparations for Himawari-10. Investigating the 1.38-micron "Cirrus" band with regional examples: Bodo Zeschke, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre. Recording, 16 minutes duration.
- Information about the 15th Asia Oceania Meteorological Satellite User Conference (AOMSUC-15) and the 2025 FENGYUN Satellite User Conference (FYSUC-2025): Liu Chang, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration. Recording, 8 minutes duration.
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30th May 2025 Regional Focus Group meeting (126)
Topics of discussion included:
- Case Study of Satellite Derived Precipitation over Taiwan, 05-06 September, 2024: presented by Duncan Tippins, Director of Meteorology of DTN APAC.
- Solcast Cloud and Synthetic Radar Nowcasting: presented by Hugh Cutcher, Head of Data Science, Solcast.
Recording, 49 minutes duration.
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25th March 2025 Regional Focus Group meeting (125)
Topics of discussion included:
- Using AI to predict convective hazards: presented by Scott Lindstrom, Space Science and Engineering Centre (SSEC)/University of Wisconsin Madison. Recording, 22 minutes duration. Post presentation discussion recording.
- Case studies demonstrating the ProbSevere LightningCast Machine Learning Storm Prediction Tool over the South Pacific Region, with input from the 2024 BMTC Graduate Diploma of Meteorology graduate students: presented by Bodo Zeschke, Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre. Recording, 23 minutes duration. Post presentation discussion recording.
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28th January 2025 Regional Focus Group meeting (124)
Topics of discussion included:
- Presentation and Discussion of the most Significant or Favourite Events of the year 2024 as revealed in Satellite Imagery (part 2)
- High-based convection and turbulence northeast of Hawaii: presented by Jordan Gerth, NOAA/NESDIS. Recording, 16 minutes duration.
- Tropical Cyclone Paul 10-11 April 2024: New technologies adding value; ASCAT UHR and Tropics Microwave: presented by Joe Courtney, Bureau of Meteorology, Perth. Recording, 8 minutes duration. Post presentation discussion. Recording.
- A summary of the 14th Asia Oceania Meteorological Satellite User Conference (AOMSUC-14): presented by Bodo Zeschke, Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre. Recording, 22 minutes duration.
Note: the advertised presentation "A memorable event during the BMTC 2024 Tropical Meteorology Simulation" could not be shown due to lack of time.
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