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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Good Afternoon, All,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>We look forward to your participation in the NCEP Production Suite Review on 5-7 December 2016 at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Maryland. We've planned for 3 days, but will start Monday after lunch and end at lunch on Wednesday, with fewer presentations and more time for discussion --so an even more substantial change to the format from last year.<br><br><b>Please go to the link below to the register.</b> It is particularly important that you register since we plan on having several breakout discussion sessions this year (several parallel groups addressing the same topic for each breakout session), and are looking to provide a balance of participants in the various breakout groups between the regions, centers, EMC and others. We plan to organize the breakout session groups prior to the NPSR meeting, and having participants register in advance at the following link will greatly assist our efforts.<br><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAAnlnym0N8wzzQQGcj0tMUiuBSJ9zQZbdjuFM6HKBQ802jw/viewform" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAAnlnym0N8wzzQQGcj0tMUiuBSJ9zQZbdjuFM6HKBQ802jw/viewform</span></a><br><br>Attached is the draft agenda; there are some remaining TBDs that will be filled in with presenters or discussion leads. Note that we'll have a telecon line and webinar available for the meeting itself, but this is not practical for the breakout sessions.<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>Andrew Ostapenko<br>Geoff Manikin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mike Ek<br>NCEP/EMC</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">LCDR Andrew J. Ostapenko, NOAA</p><p class="MsoNormal">Executive Officer, Environmental Modeling Center</p><p class="MsoNormal">NOAA/NWS/NCEP</p><p class="MsoNormal">5830 University Research Court</p><p class="MsoNormal">College Park, MD 20740</p><p class="MsoNormal">301.683.3951 (office)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:andrew.ostapenko@noaa.gov">andrew.ostapenko@noaa.gov</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>