Regional Training: ICG/PTWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Tsunami Products
ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) LAC PTWC New Products
Training Course
02 - 04 June 2014
Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada del Ecuador
Ave. 25 de Julio, (Avenida de la Marina)
via Puerto Nuevo
Base Naval Sur 5940
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Organizer & Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
The Pacific Ocean and its adjacent seas is the largest, most diverse and most prone to tsunamis of all the Earth oceans. Pacific nations must be prepared to face the dangers of tsunami from distant, regional and local sources. Over the last 10+ years, with improvements in data quality, quantity, and real-time availability, PTWC response time has dropped significantly from an hour to < 10 minutes for distant events. At the same time, with each great earthquake and tsunami since 26 December 2004 helping to increase scientific understanding, better techniques have been developed to quickly characterize the earthquake and numerically model the tsunami. This in turn has led to significant improvements in a warning center ability to accurately forecast coastal wave height and impact, and an ability to provide timely advice to support local tsunami warning decision-making. At its 25th session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS), Vladivostok, Russian Federation, 9-11 September 2013, Member States approved the start of the PTWC Enhanced Products on October 1, 2014. These products, the first large-scale modifications in decades, fundamentally change the way in which countries assess their national tsunami threats. The PTWC will cease providing Warnings and Watches, and instead issue tsunami wave forecasts. Public text products will continue to be issued, but the additional graphical and statistical products will only be sent to designated PTWS Tsunami Warning Focal Points. This 3-day training will cover the explanation and use of the PTWC New Enhanced Tsunami Forecast Products by National Tsunami Warning Centers and Emergency Response Agencies. Topics will cover the end-to-end warning process, warning center and emergency response standard operating procedures and their challenges, advanced topics in warning operations, and the methodologies, limitations, and interpretation of the PTWC Enhanced Products.
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Name | Country |
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ALVARADO Yoccer | Ecuador |
ÁLVAREZ Wilder | Colombia |
AROCA Benito | Ecuador |
AYALA Christian | Ecuador |
BASTIDAS Dorys | Ecuador |
CABA Rubén | Ecuador |
CAMCHONG AYON Michael Antonio | United States of America |
CAMPUZANO Eduardo | Ecuador |
CASTRO CARCAMO Rodolfo Antonio | El Salvador |
CASTRO CORTES Dolan Josue | Honduras |
CASTRO YSLA Carlos Alberto | Peru |
CHACON BARRANTES Silvia | Costa Rica |
DE LA CUADRA Telmo | Ecuador |
DIAZ DE LARTUNDO Cristian | Chile |
GARCIA LOPEZ Marvin | Honduras |
GIL SANTOS Johnny Everardo | Panama |
GOVAERE VICARIOLI Georges | Costa Rica |
HENRIQUEZ PALACIOS Rafael Anto | El Salvador |
JIMÉNEZ TINTAYA César | Peru |
MENDOZA Diana Patricia | Colombia |
MENDOZA GOMEZ Miguel Angel | Guatemala |
MORENO PASTOR Omar | Panama |
NATH Jorge | Ecuador |
PACHECO Daniel | Ecuador |
PÁEZ Erick | Ecuador |
PERUGACHI SALAMEA Carlos | Ecuador |
TAPIA ESPINOSA Arkin Alain | Panama |
TITO SULCA Carlos Alberto | Peru |
ZUNIGA Carlos | Chile |
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 29
Confirmed: 29
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Label(s): no labels
Created at 11:10 on 28 Apr 2014 by OceanExpert Manager
Last Updated at 15:58 on 03 Aug 2015 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel