Regional Training Workshop on the PTWC Enhanced Products
ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) – PACIFIC ISLANDS COUNTRIES
Training Course
22 - 24 May 2014
Nadi
Fiji
Organiser(s) & 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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- 1.1 - Opening Ceremonies
Course Overview Regional Training on the ICG/PTWS PTWC Enhanced Products - 1.2 - Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions Course Overview
- 2.1 - ICG/PTWS-XXV Outcomes, specifically for PTWS Enhanced Products
Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS) - 2.2 - Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs
Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs - 2.3 - What will Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? TWC Operations Challenges and Limitations in real-time Monitoring, Detection, and Forecasting
NTWC Operations Challenges and Limitations - 2.4 - What do TERs want from TWCs? TER Operations Challenges and Limitations in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear)
Tsunami Emergency Response – Challenges and Limitations What do TERs want from TWCs? - 3.1 - Country SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products - 10 min/country (8 countries: Nauru, Niue, Palau, PNG, RMI, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga)
- 3.2 - Discussion: Challenges for Country Readiness for Changeover – What is left to do, gaps, needs?
Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover What is left to do, gaps, needs? - 4.1 - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products SOPs - Why, What, Criteria, Staging of Products
PTWC Enhanced Products for the PTWS - 4.2 - TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, and Limitations
Real-Time Earthquake Location and Magnitude Estimation:R.H.H. PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER Ewa Beach, Hawaii - 4.3 - TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Forecasting - Techniques, Use and Limitations, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude)
PTWC Operational Tsunami Forecasting - 4.4 - PTWC Enhanced Products - Explanation of Each Product: Public Text, Graphical Deep-Ocean Tsunami Amplitude (Energy), Coastal Tsunami Amplitude, Coastal Tsunami Amplitude Polygons, Tsunami Amplitude Statistics, Coastal Tsunami Amplitude KMZ file
- 4.5 - PTWC Enhanced Products - Explanation of Each Product (continued)
PTWC enhanced product delivery timeline for a Hypothetical Rat Island Mw=9.1 scenario - 5.1 - National Tsunami Warning Center SOP for PTWC Enhanced Products - Guidance and Examples: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Warning/Watch/Information Message Templates
- 5.2 - Using Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools for Monitoring, Detection, Assessment, Warning, Cancellation
- 5.3 - PTWC Enhanced Products Guidance for National Warnings and Evacuation – Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety
PTWC Enhanced Products Guidance for National Warnings and Evaluation: Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety - 5.4 - Timeline-driven SOPs – Intl TWCs, NTWC, NDMO/DMO actions
- 6.1 - Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products – Distant Tsunami Hazard Scenarios
PTWC enhanced product delivery timeline for a Hypothetical Rat Island Mw=9.1 scenario - 6.2 - Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products – Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios
EXERCISE - PTWC Enhanced Products: Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios - 6.3 - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products: Local Tsunami Table Top Exercise
EXERCISE - PTWC Enhanced Products: Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios - 6.4 - Summary Discussion and Closing: Country Readiness for PTWS Enhanced Products
- 7 - AFTERNOON – Hands-on One-on-One Sessions: TW Software Tools, Country Enhanced Products SOPs
There are 30 participants associated with Regional Training Workshop on the PTWC Enhanced Products .
Name | Country |
---|---|
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): no labels
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