SWFP-Caribbean

SWFP Regional Subprogramme in Caribbean (SWFP-Caribbean)

Beneficiary Countries & Territories: Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean including Members of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO)	CMO Members: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands Others: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Martinique/Guadeloupe/Saint-Martin/Saint-Barthélemy (France), Aruba/Curaçao/Sint Maarten (Kingdom of the Netherlands), Bonaire/Saba/Sint-Eustatius (Netherlands), and Puerto-Rico/US Virgin Islands (USA)
Regional SWF Centre:	Regional Forecast Support Facility (RFSF) Martinique (since 2018) (password protected) Other relevant Centres: RSMC Miami (for hurricane forecast support) CIMH Barbados: NWP LAM products (WRF NMM); Dust & Air Quality products; Wave forecasting products SCOPE - Nowcasting products (by CPTEC INPE Brazil)
Global Centres/WMCs:	MeteoFrance (WMC Toulouse): NWP data and products WMC ECMWF; ENS Meteograms; and Forecaster User Guide WMC Montreal: EPSgrams for Caribbean; Deterministic data; Ensemble data NCEP/NOAA (WMC Washington): Central America and the Caribbean domain; Caribbean domain algorithms and additional products DWD (WMC Offenbach); Link for ICON Model data
Main Focus (Severe weather types):	Heavy rain, strong winds and damaging waves
Inception year:	2016
Present Status:	Preoperational phase (in transition to operational phase)
Download:	Regional SWF Operational Plan (RSOP)
Development partners/ Donors:	Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative funds for the Caribbean Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) funds through CREWS-SIDS & SE-Asia (2017-2021)

SWFP Implementation in the Caribbean

Domain Coordinates (Approx.) : 50° - 80° W / 8° - 25° N