ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) LAC PTWC New ProductsRegional Training: ICG/PTWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Tsunami Products2 - 4 June 2014, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
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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 the 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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2.3 |
What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies?
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2.4 |
What do TERs do with TWC information? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to- Return (All-Clear)
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2.5 |
Comisión Permanente de Pacífico Sur (CPPS)
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2.6 |
Country SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products - 10-15 min/country (6 countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador)
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2.7 |
Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover - What is left to do, gaps, needs?
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DAY 2: TWC Operations, PTWC Enhanced Products, Country Guidance
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3.1 |
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products Overview – What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats, Staging)
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3.2 |
TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization – Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges
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3.3 |
TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Forecasting – Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude)
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3.4 |
PTWC Enhanced Products – Staging and Explanation of Each Product: Text, Forecast Polygon Map, Graphical Deep-Ocean Energy, Coastal Forecast, Forecast Tables, KMZ file
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3.5 |
National SOP for PTWC Enhanced Products – Guidance and Examples: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, NTWC Message Templates
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3.6 |
Using Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools for Monitoring, Detection, Assessment, Warning, Cancellation, Demonstration of Tide Tool v10.20 with Tsunami Travel Times
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3.7 |
PTWC Enhanced Products – Guidance on use for National Warnings and Evacuation – Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety
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3.8 |
Event Timeline-driven SOP – Intl TWC, NTWC, NDMO/DMO actions
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DAY 3: Tsunami Hazard Scenarios, Tsunami Exercise
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4.1 |
Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products - Distant Tsunami Hazard Scenarios
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4.2 |
Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products - Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios
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4.3 |
Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products
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4.4 |
Post-Exercise Evaluation
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4.5 |
Final Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover - Questions, Answers, Next Steps
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Closing Ceremonies
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