Regional Training Workshop on Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Enhanced Tsunami Products for ICG/CARIBE EWS
ITP - CARIBE EWS
Training Course
31 October - 02 November 2017
Radisson Cartagena Ocean Pavillion Hotel
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia,
Colombia
Organiser(s) & Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
This three-day training workshop is intended to enable tsunami warning focal points (TWFPs), national tsunami warning centers (NTWC), and tsunami emergency responders (TERs) to effectively receive, analyse and take appropriate action in response to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) enhanced tsunami forecast products for the Caribbean and its adjacent regions. This training workshop will cover tsunami warning operations and the use of the PTWC Enhanced Products for tsunami threat decision-making, with specific attention on the tsunami warning chain and their standard operating procedures (SOPs). Topics will include warning and response SOPs and challenges, warning decision support tools, warning messages and alerting, evacuation concepts and planning, and awareness strategies. 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 the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami helping to increase scientific understanding, better techniques have been developed to quickly characterize the earthquake and numerically model the tsunami. In the Pacific, the PTWS adopted use of the PTWC enhanced products based on numerical forecast models on 1 October 2014. For the Caribbean and adjacent regions, the changeover to PTWC’s new enhanced forecast products was approved by the ICG/CARIBE-EWS VIII (2013), introduced in CARIBE WAVE 2013, and issued in parallel from October 26, 2015. The changeover to solely the new products took place on 1 March 2016. Due to the impacts of meteorological events during the 2017 hurricane season, lessons to be learned, particularly in relation to communications, will also be discussed.
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- 1.1 - Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony - 1.2 - Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions
- 1.4 - ICG/CARIBE EWS-XII Outcomes
1.4 Regional Training Workshop on Pacific Tsunami Warning CenterEnhanced Tsunami Products for ICG/CARIBE EWS:ICG/CARIBE-EWS XII Outcomes - 2.1 - Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs
2.1 Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs - 2.2 - Key Stakeholders: Tsunami Warning Center SOPs - What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? Challenges in Detection and Tsunami Threat
2.2_WC_SOPs_CARIBE-EWS-What_Do_TWCs_Provide_to_TERs - 2.3 - Key Stakeholders: Tsunami Emergency Response SOPs: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear)
2.3 Key Stakeholders: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe to Return - 3.1 - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) Enhanced Products Overview - What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats)
3.1 PTWC New Enhanced Products for the CARIBE-EWS: Overview - 3.2 - PTWC Enhanced Products - Staging
3.2 PTWC New Enhanced Products:Product Staging - 3.3 - PTWC Enhanced Products - Explanation of Product:
3.3 PTWC New Enhanced Products Explanation of Each Product - 3.4 - ICG/CARIBE-EWS Country SOPs - Readiness, Gaps, Actions
3.4 ICG/CARIBE-EWS Country SOPs – Readiness, Gaps, Actions: 2017 Hurricane Season – Lessons to be Learned - 4.1 - TWC Operations: Seismic Monitoring in the Caribbean
4.1 NTWC OPERATIONS-WEB SITE URLS-BOOKMARS(July 2017)
4.1 TWC Operations: Seismic Monitoring in the Caribbean - 4.2 - TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Limitations, Challenges
4.2 Regional Training Workshop on Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Enhanced - 4.3 - Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Earthquakes: Real-time Earthquake Display (CISN), USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER)
4.3 Demonstration: Decision Support Toold of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Earthquakes: Real-time Earthquake Display (CISN), USGS Website (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER) - 4.4 - TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring in the Caribbean, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges
4.4 TWC OperationsSea Level Monitoring in the Caribbean - 4.5 - Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Tsunamis: TideTool with Tsunami Travel Times, IOC Sea Level Monitoring Facility web site
4.5 Tsunami Warning Center Operations:Sea Level Monitoring in the Caribbean
4.5 TIDE TOOL: SOFTWARE TO ANALYZE GTS SEA-LEVEL DATA - 4.6 - TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Techniques, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies
4.6 TWC Operations –Tsunami Travel Time Forecasting
4.6 TWC Operations –Wave Amplitude Forecasting - 5.1 - TWC and TER Guidance on how to use PTWC New Enhanced Products for National Warnings and Evacuation – Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timeline-driven SOPs, Message Templates
5.1 TWC and TER Guidance on how to use PTWC New Enhanced Products for National Warnings and Evacuation – Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety: Criteria Tables, Message Templates, Flow Charts and Timeline-driven SOPs - 5.2 - Activity: Developing Country SOPs for the PTWC Enhanced Products - Warning Communications Flow Chart, Criteria Tables
- 5.3 - Activity: Improving Response – What Happens When? Timeline-drive SOPs for Local Scenario
- 6.1 - Day 1 & 2 Follow-Up
- 6.2 - Tsunami Hazard Scenarios for the Caribbean – Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products
- 6.3 - Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products, Regional Scenario
6.3 Tsunami Table Top ExerciseDecision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products, Local/Regional Scenario - 6.4 - Tsunami Table Top Exercise –Debrief and Hotwash
- 6.5 - Tsunami Exercises, CARIBEWAVE18
6.5 Tsunami Exercises: CARIBEWAVE18 - 6.6 - Summary Discussion: Country Readiness for PTWC Enhanced Products
Agenda | Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
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Agenda | Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
GOES-East EMWIN Broadcast Service Transition | 15/12/2017 |
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NTWC_monitoring_URLs_jun17 | 15/12/2017 |
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There are 29 participants associated with Regional Training Workshop on Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Enhanced Tsunami Products for ICG/CARIBE EWS .
Name | Country |
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BROME Alison | Barbados |
VON HILLEBRANDT-ANDRADE Christa | United States of America |
WEINSTEIN Stuart | United States of America |
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 29
Confirmed: 29
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Label(s): no labels
Created at 23:53 on 19 Oct 2017 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Last Updated at 11:50 on 08 Nov 2018 by Astrid de Lichtervelde