Advertise With Us
About Us
Listen
Watch

Login

/

Subscribe

Home

News

Carnival

Business

Sports

E-Paper

Features

Opinion

Traffic Cameras

Life

Classifieds

Death Notices

Community

Real Estate

About Us

Contact Us

Home
News
Carnival
Sports
E-paper
Business
Classifieds
Other
Death Notices
Traffic Cameras
Covid-19
Features
Opinion
Games
Subscriptions
Real Estate

Caribbean countries boost weather and climate monitoring with EU technical support

by

#meta[ag-author]
20220527123824
20220527

CAR­I­FO­RUM mem­ber states are be­com­ing bet­ter equipped to col­lect, store, and an­a­lyze hy­dro-me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal da­ta that will form much of the ev­i­dence base to sup­port build­ing re­silience to weath­er and cli­mate haz­ards in the re­gion, as well as glob­al mon­i­tor­ing of cli­mate change.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from CIMH—the Caribbean In­sti­tute for Me­te­o­rol­o­gy and Hy­drol­o­gy Re­gion­al Cli­mate Cen­tre for the Caribbean—the strength­ened ca­pac­i­ty is a re­sult of a re­cent five-day work­shop for rep­re­sen­ta­tives of na­tion­al hy­dro-me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal ser­vices (NHMSs) from 16 Caribbean coun­tries.

The train­ing and equip­ment were pro­vid­ed to NHMS staff across CAR­I­FO­RUM un­der the Eu­ro­pean Union In­tra African, Caribbean, and Pa­cif­ic Group of States (ACP) Glob­al Cli­mate Change Al­liance Plus (EU In­tra-ACP GC­CA+) Project, which is be­ing man­aged by the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC).

The Project ad­dress­es me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal and hy­dro­log­i­cal needs across the re­gion through tech­ni­cal as­sis­tance that will fur­ther en­hance cli­mate ob­ser­va­tion in CAR­I­FO­RUM States to sup­port the de­vel­op­ment and use of cli­mate prod­ucts and ser­vices that lead to im­proved sec­toral plan­ning and de­ci­sion-mak­ing plan­ning.

The vir­tu­al course took place from 25 to 29 April 2022 and drew 60 reg­is­tra­tions. The train­ing was led by the Caribbean In­sti­tute for Me­te­o­rol­o­gy and Hy­drol­o­gy (CIMH), in its role as one of the Project's im­ple­ment­ing agen­cies that pro­vides tech­ni­cal and in­struc­tion­al sup­port.

“Hy­dro-me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal ser­vices play a crit­i­cal role in en­sur­ing Caribbean small is­land de­vel­op­ing states are in­formed of weath­er and cli­mate haz­ards ahead of time so that they can pre­pare and pro­tect our so­ci­eties and economies from ad­verse im­pacts. CIMH is pleased to part­ner with the CC­C­CC un­der the EU In­tra-ACP GC­CA+ Project to in­crease the ca­pac­i­ty of these na­tion­al-lev­el weath­er and cli­mate au­thor­i­ties so that they can de­liv­er and an­a­lyze more ac­cu­rate and time­ly in­for­ma­tion that their gov­ern­ments and sec­tors can use to re­duce vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties and bring bet­ter out­comes in dis­as­ter risk re­duc­tion,” said Dr. David Far­rell, Prin­ci­pal of CIMH.

Dur­ing the train­ing, par­tic­i­pants learned how to use and main­tain the new au­to­mat­ic weath­er sta­tions (AWS) that con­tin­u­ous­ly record weath­er and cli­mate-re­lat­ed vari­ables in­clud­ing tem­per­a­ture, rain­fall, rel­a­tive hu­mid­i­ty, wind speed, and wind di­rec­tion with some sta­tions hav­ing ad­di­tion­al sen­sors to col­lect soil mois­ture and soil tem­per­a­ture.

One of the par­tic­i­pants Janelle Gar­raway McPher­son, Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Tech­ni­cian – In­stru­men­ta­tion at the Do­mini­ca Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice, Com­mon­wealth of Do­mini­ca, ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion with the train­ing.

“The train­ing fo­cused on best prac­tices for in­stal­la­tion main­te­nance, mon­i­tor­ing, and col­lec­tion of the weath­er da­ta that the sta­tions will pro­vide. While some in­for­ma­tion served as time­ly re­minders there was a lot to be learned es­pe­cial­ly in this age of de­vel­op­ing tech­nol­o­gy,” she said.

Govin­da Au­gustin, Se­nior Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Tech­ni­cian at the Saint Lu­cia Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice, who al­so par­tic­i­pat­ed in the train­ing, not­ed:

"I came out of this train­ing feel­ing more con­fi­dent in my task to in­stall the au­to­mat­ic weath­er sta­tion pro­vid­ed to my coun­try. I al­so have a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of how to in­ter­pret the da­ta that will be col­lect­ed."

Ac­cord­ing to the CC­C­CC Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor, Dr Col­in Young, this boost to the par­tic­i­pants’ ca­pac­i­ty will en­hance the qual­i­ty of the Caribbean re­gion’s abil­i­ty to use cli­mate da­ta to re­spond to cli­mate vari­abil­i­ty and change.

“The Caribbean is at the front­line of the cli­mate emer­gency and one of the most vul­ner­a­ble re­gions in the world to hy­dro-me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal events such as floods, droughts, trop­i­cal storms, and hur­ri­canes that are in­creas­ing in fre­quen­cy and in­ten­si­ty be­cause of cli­mate change. As such, ac­cess, avail­abil­i­ty, and use of cli­mate-re­lat­ed da­ta are in­dis­pens­able to ev­i­dence-based de­ci­sion­mak­ing and re­silience build­ing in our Mem­ber States. We are most pleased to have part­nered with the CIMH to de­liv­er this need­ed and time­ly train­ing,” Dr Young stat­ed.

At the con­clu­sion of the train­ing, par­tic­i­pants re­ceived cer­tifi­cates of par­tic­i­pa­tion.

For more in­for­ma­tion, vis­it https://www.caribbean­cli­mate.bz/blog/2021/04/07/2019-2023-in­traacp-gc­ca-pro­gramme-in-the-caribbean-en­hanc­ing-cli­mate-re­silience-in-car­i­fo­rum-coun­tries/


Click HERE to Login

Want FREE access to all our content? Sign up HERE!

Tagged in:

European UnionWeatherCARICOMCaribbean


Responses

Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored

Trending

Acting CoP suspends officer in traffic warden viral video
Nine Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder accused to receive $20M from State
Cop captured in social media row with Traffic Warden suspended
Harewood-Christopher in pole position for CoP job
State must pay $20m for failed Naipaul-Coolman case
President sends Erla Christopher's name to Parliament for CoP nominee debate
Highest-ranking name for new Police Commissioner delivered to President
Griffith silent on Kamla’s call for unity: PDP, Duke, some ex-UNC MPs not interested
Piarco records the lowest temperature in January in 10 years
US resident held with ammo in Piarco airport
Today's
Guardian
View
Subscribe

Publications

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Pain, power and poison...a review of Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein

20230126132207
2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

Adrian Pope

2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

Adrian Pope

2022 TS Eliot poetry prize winner memorialises 'charismatic' father

20230126141654

Numbness in your feet?

20230123072450

Your walking gear matters!

20230116101944
Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

News

Business

Sports

Life

Opinion

Tobago Today

Classifieds

Death Notices

Subscriptions

Real Estate

Categories

News
Business
Sports
Features
Opinion
Traffic Cameras
Death Notices

INFORMATION

About Us
Contact Us
Advertise With Us
Privacy Policy
Subscriptions
Terms of Services

Digital Media

The Big Board Company.
Real Estate
Classifieds

TELEVISION

CNC3 Television

RADIO

951 Remix
Sangeet 106.1 FM
Sky 99.5FM
Slam 100.5 FM
Vibe CT 105 FM
Mix 90.1 FM (Guyana)
Freedom 106.5 FM

About Us

Guardian Media is the premier provider of multimedia solutions and authoritative insight on news, politics, business, finance, sports, and current affairs. Our brand portfolio includes CNC3, Guardian, TBC Radio Network and The Big Board Company.

Contact us

Send us an e-mail here or call us at +1-(868)-225-4465

Follow us