Expert Team on Quality, Traceability and Calibration (ET-QTC)
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Purpose: develop regulatory, guidance and training material related to the traceability of measurements to international standards. Develop tools and assess the compliance of the Regional Instrument Centres (RICs), Regional Marine Instrument Centres (RMICs) and Regional Radiation Centres (RRCs) by monitoring their performance and capabilities.
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Under the direction of the Chair of INFCOM/SC-MINT, the Expert Team on Quality, Traceability and Calibration (ET-QTC) shall undertake tasks and provide advice on and support for the implementation of the WIGOS framework and the priorities of the WMO Strategic Plan (2024-2027), in accordance with the SC-MINT Terms of Reference; in particular:
1. Develop guidance material towards implementation of the strategy for traceability assurance, thus ensuring worldwide traceability of measurements to the International System of Units (SI).
2. Develop guidance material on field verification and field calibration of instruments.
3. Develop missing assessment tools and assess the compliance of the Regional Instrument Centres (RICs), Regional Marine Instrument Centres (RMICs) and Regional Radiation Centres (RRCs) by monitoring their performance and capabilities (including recommendations to Regional Associations related to their performance).
4. Strengthen the Quality Management Framework of RICs, RMICs and RRCs by providing support towards their certification and/or accreditation.
5. Assist in conducting interlaboratory comparisons, assessing results and preparing relevant guidance.
6. Streamline the concept of RICs, RMICs and RRCs, and possibly other centres, and promote their inter-collaboration, as well as collaboration between them and the Regional WIGOS Centres (RWCs), as appropriate.
7. Promote further the partnership between the RICs, RMICs and RRCs of developing and developed countries.
8. Collaborate with RICs, RMICs, and RRCs to support them in addressing Members and regional priorities and improve Members’ benefit from their services
9. Collaborate with measurement-related centres, and with other SC-MINT expert teams, on developing training material on quality, traceability and calibration, and on holding training workshops, in collaboration with Regional Training Centres (RTCs) and other regional entities.
10. Regularly review and update WMO-No. 8 and other WMO guides relevant to the expert team activities and ensure consistency with other WIGOS regulatory and guidance material.
11. Contribute to the evaluation of World Records of Weather and Climate Extremes, as required, on measurement quality/traceability aspects.
ToR:
Under the direction of the Chair of INFCOM/SC-MINT, the Expert Team on Quality, Traceability and Calibration (ET-QTC) shall undertake tasks and provide advice on and support for the implementation of the WIGOS framework and the priorities of the WMO Strategic Plan (2024-2027), in accordance with the SC-MINT Terms of Reference; in particular:
1. Develop guidance material towards implementation of the strategy for traceability assurance, thus ensuring worldwide traceability of measurements to the International System of Units (SI).
2. Develop guidance material on field verification and field calibration of instruments.
3. Develop missing assessment tools and assess the compliance of the Regional Instrument Centres (RICs), Regional Marine Instrument Centres (RMICs) and Regional Radiation Centres (RRCs) by monitoring their performance and capabilities (including recommendations to Regional Associations related to their performance).
4. Strengthen the Quality Management Framework of RICs, RMICs and RRCs by providing support towards their certification and/or accreditation.
5. Assist in conducting interlaboratory comparisons, assessing results and preparing relevant guidance.
6. Streamline the concept of RICs, RMICs and RRCs, and possibly other centres, and promote their inter-collaboration, as well as collaboration between them and the Regional WIGOS Centres (RWCs), as appropriate.
7. Promote further the partnership between the RICs, RMICs and RRCs of developing and developed countries.
8. Collaborate with RICs, RMICs, and RRCs to support them in addressing Members and regional priorities and improve Members’ benefit from their services
9. Collaborate with measurement-related centres, and with other SC-MINT expert teams, on developing training material on quality, traceability and calibration, and on holding training workshops, in collaboration with Regional Training Centres (RTCs) and other regional entities.
10. Regularly review and update WMO-No. 8 and other WMO guides relevant to the expert team activities and ensure consistency with other WIGOS regulatory and guidance material.
11. Contribute to the evaluation of World Records of Weather and Climate Extremes, as required, on measurement quality/traceability aspects.
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