Nadi
Fiji
1.1 | Opening Ceremonies |
1.2 | Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions Course Overview |
2.1 | ICG/PTWS-XXV Outcomes, specifically for PTWS Enhanced Products |
2.2 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs |
2.3 | 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 |
2.4 | What do TERs want from TWCs? TER Operations Challenges and Limitations in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear) |
3.1 | Country SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products - 10 min/country (8 countries: Nauru, Niue, Palau, PNG, RMI, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga) |
3.2 | Discussion: Challenges for Country Readiness for Changeover – What is left to do, gaps, needs? |
4.1 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products SOPs - Why, What, Criteria, Staging of Products |
4.2 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, and Limitations |
4.3 | TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Forecasting - Techniques, Use and Limitations, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
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 |
4.5 | PTWC Enhanced Products - Explanation of Each Product (continued) |
5.1 | National Tsunami Warning Center SOP for PTWC Enhanced Products - Guidance and Examples: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Warning/Watch/Information Message Templates |
5.2 | Using Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools for Monitoring, Detection, Assessment, Warning, Cancellation |
5.3 | PTWC Enhanced Products Guidance for National Warnings and Evacuation – Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety |
5.4 | Timeline-driven SOPs – Intl TWCs, NTWC, NDMO/DMO actions |
6.1 | Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products – Distant Tsunami Hazard Scenarios |
6.2 | Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products – Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios |
6.3 | Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products: Local Tsunami Table Top Exercise |
6.4 | Summary Discussion and Closing: Country Readiness for PTWS Enhanced Products |
7 | AFTERNOON – Hands-on One-on-One Sessions: TW Software Tools, Country Enhanced Products SOPs |