IOC/TOWS-WG-III

Third Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG)

5 – 6 May 2010, Lisboa, Portugal

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), tasked primarily to advise the IOC Governing Bodies on co-ordinated development and implementation activities on warning and mitigation systems for tsunamis and other hazards related to sea level of common priority to all Intergovernmental Coordination Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems (ICG/TWSs). Suggested Hotel: http://www.hotel-aslisboa.com/en/home/ Hotel A.S. Lisboa Av. Almirante Reis Nº 188, 1000-055 Lisboa

Location

Instituto de Meteorologia
Rua C do Aeroporto

1749-077 Lisboa
Portugal

Organisers and Staff

Organisers
Mr Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Fernando Carrilho
Staff
Dr. Peter KOLTERMANN
Mr Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Dr Thomas Gross
Mr. Tony Elliott
1

OPENING AND WELCOME

1.1

OPENING

1.2

ADOPTION OF AGENDA

1.3

WORKING ARRANGEMENTS

2

REPORTS FROM PARTICIPANT BODIES

2.1

REPORT FROM IOC BODIES

2.2

REPORT OF NON-IOC BODIES

3

REVIEW OF PROGRESS

3.1

STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF IOC RES.XXV.13

3.2

REVIEW OF DRAFT WITH DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY ON HAZARDS, DISASTERS, VULNERABILITY AND RISKS (Required by EC XLIII)

3.3

REVIEW OF THE IOC OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA EXCHANGE POLICY - IOC RES. XXII-6 (Required by IOC Assembly XXVI)

3.4

REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TSUNAMETER PARTNERSHIP AND THE DBCP, IN COORDINATION WITH JCOMM, ON OCEAN OBSERVING PLATFORM VANDALISM

5

DATE AND PLACE OF THE NEXT MEETING

6

CLOSURE OF MEETING

Report Documents

Code Title
IOC/TOWS-WG-III/3 Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards Related to Sea-Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG) Third Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal,5–6 May 2010

Agenda Documents

Agenda Code Title
1.1 ICG/TOWS-III/1 Prov Add) Provisional Timetable
3.2 IOC/TOWS III/3.2 TOWS III 3.2 Glossary Coastal Hazards Definitions and Terminology
3.3 Overview IOC Data Policy
4 INTER-ICG TASK TEAM ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND PREPAREDNESS REPORT
4 Inter-ICG Task Team on Tsunami Watch Operations Status Report for presentation to the TOWS WG III Meeting

Event Documents

Code Title
CTBTO Data for Tsunami Purposes
WMO approach to Multi-Hazards Early Warning Systems and Operational Ocean-related Disaster Services
TOWS-WG Task Team 1 Sea Level for Tsunamis

Background Documents

Code Title
IOC/TOWS-WG-II/3 Second meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards Related to Sea-Level Warning and Mitigation Systems; Paris, France; 27 March 2009
IOC/TOWS-WG-I/3 First meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards Related to Sea-Level Warning and Mitigation Systems; Paris,France; 3–4 April 2008

Participant Stats:

Staff and organisers 6
Confirmed 21
Not Confirmed 0
Not-participating 0
Total 27
Groups: GOOS, IOC, IODE, JCOMM, Tsunami
Created at 15:31 on 25 March 2010 by Mr Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Last Updated at 10:04 on 24 January 2019 by Astrid de Lichtervelde
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