Ensuring Accurate Measurements of Climate Change Parameters in the Caribbean

This publication is a metrology and meteorology cooperation. (May 2022)

This document was elaborated in the frame of the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality – Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt National Metrology Institute (CROSQ-PTB) project “Metrology for Meteorology in the Caribbean” as part of the “Regional Fund Quality Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Climate Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean” which is implemented by PTB with support of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Pan-American Standards Commission (COPANT), the Inter-American Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC), Interamerican Metrology System (SIM).

We thank the former CROSQ Technical Officer for Metrology David Tomlinson and the PTB project coordinators Jaime Fernandez, Franziska Kamm and Reinhard Schiel for their support.

The participating institutions for this project are the Antigua & Barbuda Bureau of Standards, Antigua & Barbuda Meteorological Services, Belize Bureau of Standards, The National Meteorological Service Belize, Dominica Bureau of Standards, Dominica Meteorological Service, Grenada Bureau of Standards, Grenada Airport Authority – Grenada Meteorological Services, Guyana National Bureau of Standards, Hydrometeorological Service – Ministry of Agriculture Guyana, Bureau Haïtien de Normalisation, Haiti Hydro-Meteorological Service (UHM), Bureau of Standards Jamaica, Meteorological Service of Jamaica, St. Lucia Bureau of Standards, St. Lucia Meteorological Services, Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards, Trinidad & Tobago Meteorological Service, CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality
(CROSQ), The University of the West Indies (UWI) and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt National Metrology Institute (PTB).

To reference this document, please use: CROSQ and PTB (CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt National Metrology Institute). 2022. Ensuring accurate measurements of Climate Change parameters in the Caribbean: A metrology and meteorology cooperation. Warrens, St. Michael, Barbados: CROSQ.