TT-TWO

TOWS-WG Task Team on Tsunami Watch Operations

27 – 28 Feb 2023, Paris, France

The Provisional Agenda and Timetable is available here

The Inter-ICG Task Team meeting on Tsunami Watch Operations will be hosted at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 February 2023.

Through Resolution XXIV-14, the IOC Assembly at its 24th session decided on the establishment of a Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards Related to Sea-Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG). The group is tasked primarily to advise the IOC Governing Bodies on coordinated development and implementation activities of warning and mitigation systems for tsunamis and other hazards related to sea level of common priority to all Intergovernmental Coordination Groups of Regional Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems.

By its IOC Decision A-31/3.4.1 on Warning Mitigation Systems for Ocean Hazards, the IOC Assembly in 2021 reaffirmed the need for continued inter-ICG coordination through TOWS and the extended tenure of its two inter-ICG Task Teams:

  • Disaster Management and Preparedness (DMP)
  • Tsunami Watch Operations (TWO)

Notes

Online attendance will be facilitated for members who are not able to attend in-person.


The working language of the meeting will be English.

Location

7 place de Fontenoy
75007 Paris
France

Organisers and Staff

Organisers
Mr Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Mr Yuji Nishimae
Mr. Rick Bailey
Staff
Ms. Nora Gale
Ms Celine TIFFAY
Mr Angelos Haidar
Day 1

Joint Opening Session TT-TWO and TT-DMP

Day 1

TT-TWO Session

Day 2

Joint Session TT-TWO and TT-DMP

Day 2

TT-TWO Session

Report Documents

Code Title
Report of Task Team on Tsunami Watch Operations, TOWS-WG-XV, 27-28 Feb 2023 (hybrid)

Agenda Documents

Agenda Code Title
10 Global Service Definition Document Status, Chip McCreery
2 IOC-UNESCO Working Group on Tsunami and Other hazards related to sea level Warning and mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG) Report, Rick Bailey
3 ICG/NEAMTWS Plan of Actions of Tsunami Watch Operations, Alessio Piatanesi
3 ICG/IOTWMS Current Status and Plan, Pattabhi Rama Rao Eluri
3 ICG/CARIBE-EWS -Tsunami Watch Operations Status and Plans, Chip McCreery
3 ICG/PTWS activities from February 2022 to February 2023, NISHIMAE Yuji
4 New Efforts to Provide Information on Volcanic Tsunamis in Japan, NISHIMAE Yuji
5. IOC Circular Letter No 2932: Second draft Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme Research and Development Plan for comments
5. Executive Summary: Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme Research & Development Implementation Plan
5. 2nd Draft Report: Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme Research & Development Implementation Plan
9 Updates to Area of Coverage and ESZ Maps of the ICG, NISHIMAE Yuji
Day 1 TT TWO Provisional Agenda and Timetable, 27-28 February 2023
J1 Global Tsunami Early Warning Systems and Remaining Challenges, Bernardo Aliaga
J12 Tsunami Glossary 2019 MG 84, Laura Kong
J2 NEAMWave Exercise, Marinos Charalampakis
J2 NEAMS Significant Events, Hélène Hébert
J2 Indian Ocean Wave Exercise 2020, Harkunti Rahayu
J2 PacWave 2022, Laura Kong
J2 PTWS and CARIBE-EWS Significant Events, Chip McCreery
J2 IOTWMS Significant Events, Pattabhi Rama Rao Eluri
J3 Tsunami Generated by Volcanoes ad Hoc Team Report, François Schindelé
J3 Report TT-TGV Chapter 1-2, Raphael Paris
J3 Volcano Observatory Questionnaire, Laura Kong
J3 Report of the Ad Hoc Team Tsunami Generated by Volcanoes (TGV)
J4 New Efforts to Provide Information on Volcanic Tsunamis in Japan, NISHIMAE Yuji
J4 Report by IOC/UNESCO TOWS-WG Ad-hoc Team on Meteotsunami (February 2023), Mike Angove
J4 Draft Report by IOC-UNESCO Ad Hoc Team on Meteotsunami
J5 IOC Circular Letter No 2932: Second draft Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme Research and Development Plan for comments
J5 Executive Summary: Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme Research & Development Implementation Plan
J5 2nd Draft Report: Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme Research & Development Implementation Plan
J5 Appointment of TR Coalition Chair
J6 Visual Communication of Tsunami Warnings/advisories in Japan, NISHIMAE Yuji
J7 Global NTWC Competency Framework PTWS, Laura Kong
J8 IUGG Update, Laura Kong

Background Documents

Code Title
IOC/TOWS-WG-XIII/3 Working Group on Tsunamis and other Hazards related to Sea-level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG), thirteenth meeting , Paris, 20–21 February 2020
Report of the Fifteenth Session of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards Related to Sea-Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-XV)
Report of Task Team on Tsunami Watch Operations, TOWS-WG-XV, Feb 2022
Report of Task Team on Tsunami Watch Operations, TOWS-WG-XIV, 22-23 Feb 2021 (online)
IOC/TOWS-WG-XIV/3 FINAL Report Fourteenth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards Related to Sea-Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-XIV), online, 25–26 February 2021

Other Documents

Code Title
Agenda TOWS-WG TT TWO Meeting 27-28 Feb 2023
TOWS-WG-XVI Invitation Circular Letter

Participant Stats:

Staff and organisers 6
Confirmed 19
Not Confirmed 0
Not-participating 0
Total 25
Groups: IOC , TSR
Created at 06:49 on 2 February 2023 by Ms. Nora Huia Gale
Last Updated at 10:57 on 2 March 2023 by Ms. Nora Huia Gale
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