Regional Training Workshop on the PTWC Enhanced Products
ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) – PACIFIC ISLANDS COUNTRIES
Training Course
22 - 24 May 2014
Nadi
Fiji
Organizer & Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
The 3-day training will cover the explanation and use of the PTWC New Enhanced Tsunami Forecast Products by National Tsunami Warning Centers and Emergency Response Agencies. Topics will cover the end-to-end warning process, warning center and emergency response operational challenges, advanced topics in tsunami warning center operations, and the methodologies, use, interpretation, and limitations of the PTWC Enhanced Products. Over the last 10+ years, with improvements in data quality, quantity, and real-time availability, PTWC’s response time has dropped significantly from an hour to 5-10 minutes for tsunami events. At the same time, with each great earthquake and tsunami since 26 December 2004 helping to increase scientific understanding, better techniques have been developed to quickly characterize the earthquake and numerically model the tsunami. This in turn has led to significant improvements in a warning center’s ability to accurately forecast coastal wave height and impact, and an ability to provide timely advice to support local tsunami warning decision-making. At the ICG/PTWS-XXV (September 2013), Member States approved the start of the PTWC Enhanced Products on October 1, 2014. These products, the first large-scale modifications in decades, fundamentally change the way in which countries assess their national tsunami threats. The PTWC will cease providing Warnings and Watches, and instead issue advisory tsunami wave forecasts. Public text products will continue to be issued, but the additional graphical and statistical products will only be sent to authorized PTWS Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP).
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Name | Country |
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ALENGE Hotoravu | Solomon Islands |
TAFUA Tessa | Samoa |
AHO Leveni | Tonga |
AUCAN Jerome | New Caledonia |
AVANITELE Iete | Tuvalu |
BENIAMINA Iokenti | Kiribati |
BOLA Epeli | Fiji |
FA'ANUNU 'Ofa | Tonga |
FERAH Freddy | Solomon Islands |
HARRIS Roy | Nauru |
ISHIGAKI Shigeki | Fiji |
JIMMY KONE-TURERE Sophie | Vanuatu |
JOSHUA Maylene | Palau |
KULA Taaniela | Tonga |
LUKANGAW Joe | Micronesia (Federated States of) |
M. NGEMAES Dilwei | Palau |
MALODALI Sakaraia V | Fiji |
MATSUURA Shohei | Fiji |
MOIHOI Mathew | Papua New Guinea |
NAKALEVU Taito | Fiji |
NGARI Arona | Cook Islands |
PULEHETOA Sionetasi | Niue |
RARAI Allan | Vanuatu |
S PRASAD Rajneel | Fiji |
SALLE Sanchez | Micronesia (Federated States of) |
SKILLING Eden | Micronesia (Federated States of) |
TITIMAEA Mulipola | Samoa |
TOKAVOU Noa | Fiji |
WAQAVAKATOGA Samisoni | Fiji |
WHITE Reginald | Marshall Islands |
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 30
Confirmed: 30
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Label(s): Created at 11:54 on 04 Apr 2014 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Last Updated at 12:58 on 26 Jul 2017 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel