{"id":786,"date":"2020-07-28T07:57:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T06:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimafoundation.org\/2020\/08\/12\/good-results-for-acronet-stations-in-the-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T08:40:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:40:42","slug":"good-results-for-acronet-stations-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/news\/good-results-for-acronet-stations-in-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Good results for ACRONET stations in the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Two weather stations were donated to the British Virgin Islands to replace those destroyed by Hurricane Irma. In a letter, the Department of Disaster Management confirms that they are fully operational<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CIMA Research Foundation has long been operating in the Caribbean region. Between 2010 and 2014, it collaborated with the Italian <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"National Department of Civil Protection (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.protezionecivile.gov.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Department of Civil Protection<\/a>, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Carribean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cimh.edu.bb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carribean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology<\/a> (CIMH) and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"UNDP Barbados (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bb.undp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">UNDP Barbados<\/a>, within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/foundations\/projects\/erc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ERC (opens in a new tab)\">ERC<\/a> (Enhancing Resilience to reduce vulnerability in the Caribbean) project, to create a support network for the monitoring and management of extreme events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to the excellent collaboration with the various\ncivil protection departments involved in the project, in 2014, CIMA Research\nFoundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Disaster\nManagement of the British Virgin Islands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2017, a strong hurricane (Irma), hit the\nCaribbean islands, and in particular the British Virgin Islands. In addition to\ndevastating the archipelago, the hurricane destroyed the entire weather station\nnetwork. Under the agreement signed, two ACRONET weather stations were donated\nto replace those lost during the hurricane. These stations were installed in\nthe first half of 2018: each one contains an anemometer, a rain gauge and a\nthermo-hygrobarometer (for measuring temperature, humidity and atmospheric\npressure). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, as part of the ordinary activities of the British Virgin Islands Civil Protection, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bviddm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Department of Disaster Management (opens in a new tab)\">Department of Disaster Management<\/a> confirms in a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"letter (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/cima_gest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Letter-to-CIMA-Donated-ACRONET-Weather-Stations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> the full operation of the system, also specifying the usefulness of the system that, in August 2018, allowed for the monitoring of the heavy rains that spilled over the territory, and whose data, integrated with those provided by the meteorological services of the islands Antigua and Barbuda, have allowed to effectively inform the population on areas most at risk.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weather stations were donated to the British Virgin Islands to replace those destroyed by Hurricane Irma. In a letter, the Department of Disaster Management confirms that they are fully operational The CIMA Research Foundation has long been operating in the Caribbean region. Between 2010 and 2014, it collaborated with the Italian National Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,118],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-uas-and-monitoring-systems","tag-caribbean"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}