ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) – PACIFIC ISLANDS COUNTRIESRegional Training Workshop on the PTWC Enhanced Products22 - 24 May 2014, Nadi, Fiji |
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Opening Ceremonies
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1.2 |
Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions Course Overview
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2.1 |
ICG/PTWS-XXV Outcomes, specifically for PTWS Enhanced Products
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2.2 |
Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs
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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
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What do TERs want from TWCs? TER Operations Challenges and Limitations in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear)
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3.1 |
Country SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products - 10 min/country (8 countries: Nauru, Niue, Palau, PNG, RMI, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga)
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3.2 |
Discussion: Challenges for Country Readiness for Changeover – What is left to do, gaps, needs?
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4.1 |
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products SOPs - Why, What, Criteria, Staging of Products
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TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, and Limitations
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4.3 |
TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Forecasting - Techniques, Use and Limitations, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude)
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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
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4.5 |
PTWC Enhanced Products - Explanation of Each Product (continued)
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5.1 |
National Tsunami Warning Center SOP for PTWC Enhanced Products - Guidance and Examples: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Warning/Watch/Information Message Templates
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5.2 |
Using Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools for Monitoring, Detection, Assessment, Warning, Cancellation
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5.3 |
PTWC Enhanced Products Guidance for National Warnings and Evacuation – Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety
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5.4 |
Timeline-driven SOPs – Intl TWCs, NTWC, NDMO/DMO actions
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6.1 |
Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products – Distant Tsunami Hazard Scenarios
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6.2 |
Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products – Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios
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6.3 |
Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products: Local Tsunami Table Top Exercise
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6.4 |
Summary Discussion and Closing: Country Readiness for PTWS Enhanced Products
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AFTERNOON – Hands-on One-on-One Sessions: TW Software Tools, Country Enhanced Products SOPs
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