Regional Training: ICG/PTWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Tsunami Products
ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) LAC PTWC New Products
Training Course
02 - 04 June 2014
Armada del Ecuador, Instituto Oceanográfico
Av. 25 de Julio Vía Puerto Marítimo
5940
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Organiser(s) & Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
The Pacific Ocean and its adjacent seas is the largest, most diverse and most prone to tsunamis of all the Earth oceans. Pacific nations must be prepared to face the dangers of tsunami from distant, regional and local sources. Over the last 10+ years, with improvements in data quality, quantity, and real-time availability, PTWC response time has dropped significantly from an hour to < 10 minutes for distant 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 ability to accurately forecast coastal wave height and impact, and an ability to provide timely advice to support local tsunami warning decision-making. At its 25th session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS), Vladivostok, Russian Federation, 9-11 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 tsunami wave forecasts. Public text products will continue to be issued, but the additional graphical and statistical products will only be sent to designated PTWS Tsunami Warning Focal Points. This 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 standard operating procedures and their challenges, advanced topics in warning operations, and the methodologies, limitations, and interpretation of the PTWC Enhanced Products.
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- 1.1 - Opening Ceremonies
- 1.2 - Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions, Course Overview
Course Overview Regional Training on the ICG/PTWS PTWC Enhanced Products - 2.1 - ICG/PTWS-XXV Outcomes, specifically for the PTWS Enhanced Products
ICG/PTWS-XXV Outcomes for PTWS Enhanced Products - 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 do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies?
What do Tsunami Warning Centers provide to Tsunami Emergency Response Agencies? - 2.4 - What do TERs do with TWC information? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to- Return (All-Clear)
What do TERs do with TWC information? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe to Return - 2.5 - Comisión Permanente de Pacífico Sur (CPPS)
- 2.6 - Country SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products - 10-15 min/country (6 countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador)
- 2.7 - Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover - What is left to do, gaps, needs?
Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover What is left to do, gaps, needs? - 3 - DAY 2: TWC Operations, PTWC Enhanced Products, Country Guidance
- 3.1 - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products Overview – What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats, Staging)
PTWC Enhanced Products Overview - 3.2 - TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization – Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges
Earthquake Seismology for Tsunami Warning: Nomenclature, Faulting, Magnitude
PTWC Operations: Real-Time Earthquake Location and Magnitude Estimation
SUMMARY - LIMITATIONS: Earthquake Source Characterization for Tsunami Warning: - 3.3 - TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Forecasting – Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude)
Tsunami Operations: Travel Time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting - 3.4 - PTWC Enhanced Products – Staging and Explanation of Each Product: Text, Forecast Polygon Map, Graphical Deep-Ocean Energy, Coastal Forecast, Forecast Tables, KMZ file
PTWC Enhanced Products Overview - 3.5 - National SOP for PTWC Enhanced Products – Guidance and Examples: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, NTWC Message Templates
National TWC SOPs – Using PTWC New Products for Threat Assessment: Criteria Tables, Message Templates - 3.6 - Using Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools for Monitoring, Detection, Assessment, Warning, Cancellation, Demonstration of Tide Tool v10.20 with Tsunami Travel Times
- 3.7 - PTWC Enhanced Products – Guidance on use 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 - 3.8 - Event Timeline-driven SOP – Intl TWC, NTWC, NDMO/DMO actions
National TWC SOPs – Using PTWC New Products for Threat Assessment: Criteria Tables, Message Templates - 4 - DAY 3: Tsunami Hazard Scenarios, Tsunami Exercise
- 4.1 - Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products - Distant Tsunami Hazard Scenarios
Small Groups: Regional and Local Tsunami Scenarios
Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products The Distant Tsunami Hazard - 4.2 - Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products - Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios
Small Groups: Regional and Local Tsunami Scenarios
Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products The Local Tsunami Hazard - Exercise - 4.3 - Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products
Small Groups: Regional and Local Tsunami Scenarios
Group Exercise – Distant Event - 4.4 - Post-Exercise Evaluation
- 4.5 - Final Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover - Questions, Answers, Next Steps
- 5 - Closing Ceremonies
There are 29 participants associated with Regional Training: ICG/PTWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Tsunami Products .
Name | Country |
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ALVARADO Yoccer | Ecuador |
ÁLVAREZ Wilder | Colombia |
AROCA Benito | Ecuador |
AYALA Christian | Ecuador |
BASTIDAS Dorys | Ecuador |
CABA Rubén | Ecuador |
CAMCHONG AYON Michael Antonio | United States of America |
CAMPUZANO Eduardo | Ecuador |
CASTRO CARCAMO Rodolfo Antonio | El Salvador |
CASTRO CORTES Dolan Josue | Honduras |
CASTRO YSLA Carlos Alberto | Peru |
CHACON BARRANTES Silvia | Costa Rica |
DE LA CUADRA Telmo | Ecuador |
DIAZ DE LARTUNDO Cristian | Chile |
GARCIA LOPEZ Marvin | Honduras |
GIL SANTOS Johnny Everardo | Panama |
GOVAERE VICARIOLI Georges | Costa Rica |
HENRIQUEZ PALACIOS Rafael Anto | El Salvador |
JIMÉNEZ TINTAYA César | Peru |
MENDOZA Diana Patricia | Colombia |
MENDOZA GOMEZ Miguel Angel | Guatemala |
MORENO PASTOR Omar | Panama |
NATH NIETO Jorge | Ecuador |
PACHECO Daniel | Ecuador |
PÁEZ Erick | Ecuador |
PERUGACHI SALAMEA Carlos | Ecuador |
TAPIA ESPINOSA Arkin Alain | Panama |
TITO SULCA Carlos Alberto | Peru |
ZUNIGA Carlos | Chile |
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 29
Confirmed: 29
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Label(s): no labels
Created at 11:10 on 28 Apr 2014 by OceanExpert Manager
Last Updated at 15:58 on 03 Aug 2015 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel