Capacity Building – Anguilla participates in Climatic Modeling Exercise in Cayman

As part of the DFID funded Enhancing Climate Change Adaption in Caribbean OT’s, the Department of  Environment participated in a training exercise on Climate Change Modeling using the PRECIS System.

The two day exercise in the Cayman Islands was held earlier this week from February 22‐23 and was also attended by staff from the Department of Physical Planning and the Meteorological Office. 

PRECIS which stands for ‘Providing Regional Climates for Impact Studies’ was coordinated by a Cuban  Team from the ‘Instituto de Meteorologia de la Republica de Cuba’. The Cubans remain in the forefront of disaster management and related technological development and it was indeed an opportunity for Anguilla to have benefited from the exercise organized by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre and the Overseas Territory Environmental Programme _ OTEP.

The modeling exercise incorporated real time temperature, rainfall, cloud cover and other geophysical data to predict credible scenarios which can be used locally to evaluate our response mechanisms as well as mitigate against seas level rise and other predicted impacts associated with climate change.

The delegation from Anguilla consisted of Mr. Rhon Connor ‐ Deputy Director of the Department of Environment, Mr. Julian Hughes ‐ Senior GIS Officer of the Department of Physical Planning and Mr. Jeffrey Jennings ‐ Meteorological Officer – Walkblake Airport