ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) – PACIFIC ISLANDS COUNTRIES

Regional Training Workshop on the PTWC Enhanced Products

22 – 24 May 2014, Nadi, Fiji

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).

Location

Nadi
Fiji

Organisers and Staff

Organisers
Dr. Ken Gledhill
Dr Laura Kong
Mr. Stuart Weinstein
Mr. Rajendra PRASAD
1.1

Opening Ceremonies

1.2

Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions Course Overview

2.1

ICG/PTWS-XXV Outcomes, specifically for PTWS Enhanced Products

2.2

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

2.4

What do TERs want from TWCs? TER Operations Challenges and Limitations in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear)

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?

4.1

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products SOPs - Why, What, Criteria, Staging of Products

4.2

TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, and Limitations

4.3

TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Forecasting - Techniques, Use and Limitations, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude)

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)

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

5.4

Timeline-driven SOPs – Intl TWCs, NTWC, NDMO/DMO actions

6.1

Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products – Distant Tsunami Hazard Scenarios

6.2

Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products – Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios

6.3

Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products: Local Tsunami Table Top Exercise

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

Agenda Documents

Agenda Code Title
1.1 Course Overview Regional Training on the ICG/PTWS PTWC Enhanced Products
2.1 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
2.3 NTWC Operations Challenges and Limitations
2.4 Tsunami Emergency Response – Challenges and Limitations What do TERs want from TWCs?
3.2 Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover What is left to do, gaps, needs?
4.1 PTWC Enhanced Products for the PTWS
4.2 Real-Time Earthquake Location and Magnitude Estimation:R.H.H. PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER Ewa Beach, Hawaii
4.3 PTWC Operational Tsunami Forecasting
4.5 PTWC enhanced product delivery timeline for a Hypothetical Rat Island Mw=9.1 scenario
5.3 PTWC Enhanced Products Guidance for National Warnings and Evaluation: Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety
6.1 PTWC enhanced product delivery timeline for a Hypothetical Rat Island Mw=9.1 scenario
6.2 EXERCISE - PTWC Enhanced Products: Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios
6.3 EXERCISE - PTWC Enhanced Products: Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios

Participant Stats:

Staff and organisers 4
Confirmed 30
Not Confirmed 0
Not-participating 0
Total 34
Groups: IOC, IOC Capacity Development, ITIC, Tsunami
Created at 09:54 on 4 April 2014 by Mr Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Last Updated at 10:58 on 26 July 2017 by Mr Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
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