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NEAMTWS - Documents

Summary reports from ICG/NEAMTWS sessions are available from the UNESCO website:

ICG/NEAMTWS-I (Rome, 21-22 November 2005): Full report
ICG/NEAMTWS-II (Nice, 22-24 May 2006): Full report | Executive summary (multilingual)
ICG/NEAMTWS-III (Bonn, 7-9 February 2007): Full report | Executive summary (multilingual)
ICG/NEAMTWS-IV (Lisbon, 21-23 November 2007): Full report | Executive summary (multilingual)
ICG/NEAMTWS-V (Athens, 3-5 November 2008): Full report (draft) | Executive summary (multilingual)
ICG/NEAMTWS-VI (Istanbul, 11-13 November 2009): Full report | Executive summary (multilingual)

Additional documents prepared by the Tsunami Unit can be found in the Document Database.

The following are relevant scientific publications on the NEAMTWS.

If you have new publications relevant to the NEAM region please send the complete reference to the IOC Secretariat at f.collins(a)unesco.org.

Author(s)	Title	Journal/Meeting	Issue	Year	Pages
	Monographic number dedicated to NEAMTWS	EMSC-CSEM Newsletter	23	2009
A Maramai, L Graziani, S Tinti	Investigation on tsunami effects in the central Adriatic Sea during the last century – a contribution	Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.	9	2009	15-19
PL Blanc	Earthquakes and tsunami in November 1755 in Morocco: a different reading of contemporaneous documentary sources	Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.	9	2009	725-738
R Omira, MA Baptista, L Matias, JM Miranda, C Catita, F Carrilho, E Toto,	Design of a Sea-level Tsunami Detection Network for the Gulf of Cadiz	Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.	9	2009	1327–1338
GA Papadopoulos, E Daskalaki, A Fokaefs, N Giraleas	Tsunami hazards in the Eastern Mediterranean: strong earthquakes and tsunamis in the East Hellenic Arc and Trench system	Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.	9	2009	57-64
PL Woodworth, LJ Rickards, B Pérez	A survey of European sea level infrastructure	Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.	9	2009	927-934
SF Dotsenko, VN Eremeev	Analysis of the necessity and possibility of tsunami early warning on the Black-Sea coast	Physical Oceanography	8	2008	288-296
F Schindelé, A Loevenbruck, H Hébert,	Strategy to design the sea monitoring networks for small tsunamigenic oceanic basins: the Western Mediterranean case	Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.	8	2008	1019-1027
LM Matias, A Annunziato, F Carrilho, M Baptista	Implementation of the NEAMTWS in Portugal	American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting		2008	n.p.
M Olivieri, L Scognamiglio	Toward a Euro Mediterranean tsunami warning system: The case of the February 12, 2007, Ml = 6.1 earthquake	Geophys. Res. Lett.	34	2008	n.p.
Council of the European Union	Council conclusions on the establishment of an Early Warning System for tsunamis in the North East Atlantic and the Mediterranean region	Document 15479/07		2007
French Senate	Report n° 117 (2007-2008) by M. Roland COURTEAU, Senator (for the parliament office for the evaluation of scientific and technological choices) - Appendix to the minutes of the 7 December 2007 session, Evaluating and preventing the tsunami risk for France 's metropolitan and overseas coasts			2007
F Schindelé, H Hébert	The Unesco Tsunami warning system in the North-East Atlantic and Mediterranean basins	EMSC-CSEM Newsletter	22	2007	24-25
A Yalçiner, E Pelinovsky, T Talipova, A Kurkin, A Kozelkov, A Zaitsev	Tsunamis in the Black Sea: Comparison of the historical, instrumental, and numerical data	J. Geophys. Res.	109	2004
J Havskov, G Alguacil	Instrumentation in Earthquake Seismology			2002

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News

Task Teams meetings held in Paris on 18-19 March.

The NEAMTWS Tasks Team on Regional TWS Architecture met in Paris on 18-19 March 2010, followed by a meeting of the Task Team on Communication Test Exercises on 19 March.

ICG/NEAMTWS-VI held in Istanbul
The session launches tsunami communication test exercises and establishes a Tsunami Information Centre for the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

Task Team meeting on TWS architecture held in Rome on 15-16 October.

Interim Operations Users Guide under preparation for basin-wide tsunami watch communication tests during 2010.

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