The BIPM key comparison database Newsletter - No 13 - June 2010
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Dear Reader,

Welcome to the 13th KCDB Newsletter.

In this issue we highlight some updates related to the CIPM MRA, the JCRB, the content of the KCDB, and various events and news concerning the BIPM. General information on future meetings is provided on the BIPM main website: calendar of meetings held at the BIPM, and other conferences, workshops and general assemblies.
As usual, we begin with a novel success story related to the use of the CIPM MRA.
We wish you a pleasant time surfing our KCDB Newsletter No 13,
The BIPM KCDB Office

To improve future editions of the KCDB Newsletter, please send us feedback to BIPM.KCDB@bipm.org so that we may meet your specific interests and concerns.

The complete series of KCDB Newsletters is available here.

The success story of the KCDB Newsletter No 13:

  "Benefits of the CIPM MRA for the National Physical Laboratory of India" by Dr. A.K. Bandyopadhyay, Head, Physico-Mechanical Standards, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi - India.

Contents
  Climate change - WMO signed the CIPM MRA!
  BIPM Membership and Associates of the CGPM
  World Metrology Day - 20 May 2010
  Feedback from the 24th JCRB
  Feedback from the 2010 Directors' meeting
  BIPM Workshop on Metrology at the Nanoscale
  KCDB: key and supplementary comparisons
  KCDB: Calibration and Measurement Capabilities (CMCs)
  Visits to the KCDB website
  Modification of the KCDB website
  50th anniversary of the SI: the International System of Units
  The BIPM/NMIA calculable capacitor
  Advance notice