Progress in Coordination of regional Tsunami Warning Systems EC InfoDay on Tsunami Early Warning Sys

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Progress in Coordination of regional Tsunami
Warning Systems EC Info-Day on Tsunami Early
Warning Systems Paris, 31 January 2006
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Information Society and Media
Directorate-General Components and Systems ICT
for the Environment
Patricio Bernal, UNESCO ADG and Executive
Secretary of IOC
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• 1965 IOC established the ICG/ITSU International
  Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System
  in the Pacific (TWSP) -gt successful operational
  Tsunami Warning Mitigation system
• March April 2005 Considering the devastating
  tsunami on Dec 26th 2004, two International
  Coordination meetings on the Development of an IO
  TWS took place in Paris and Mauritius

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• June 21-30, 2005 the 23rd IOC General Assembly
  decided resolutions on the establishment of a
  global and three regional Intergovernmental
  Coordination Groups on TEWS (XXIII-12 to
  XXXIII-15) for
• - the Indian Ocean (ICG/IOTWS)
• - the Caribbean (ICG/CARTWS)
• - the NE Atlantic and Med (ICG/NEAMTWS)

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Three more regions to coordinate
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Intergovernmental Coordination Group meetings

• 03-05 Aug 2005 ICG/IOTWS-I, Perth
• 21-22 Nov 2005 ICG/NEAMTWS-I, Rome
• 14-16 Dec 2005 ICG/IOTWS-II, Hyderabad
• 10-12 Jan 2006 ICG/CARTWS-I, Barbados
• and to come
• April/May 2006 ICG/ITSU-XXI, Melbourne
• May 2006 ICG/NEAMTWS-II, Paris
• June 2006 ICG/IOTWS-III, Bali
• Dec 2006 ICG/CARTWS-II, Venezuela

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• Besides the ongoing coordination activities
  several IOC collaboration projects could be
  funded to significantly update instrumentation
  for sea level and seismic networks, especially in
  the Indian Ocean. Nevertheless an end-to-end
  Warning System includes lots of soft technology
  like capacity building, guidance and
  preparedness-planning and there is still a need
  to incorporate new communication technologies.

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three components of a TWS
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Warning Guidance
NWC
Upstream information flow
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downstream information flow
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Media
Sirens
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Beyond immediate response Multi-Hazard Platforms

• Storm surges (IOC, WMO, JCOMM)
• Tropical storms (WMO, JCOMM)
• Improving Storm and cyclones track forecasts
  (IOC, WMO, JCOMM)
• Ice Hazard (IOC, WMO, JCOMM)
• Oil Spills (IOC, WMO, UNEP)

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• For further information see
• http//ioc3.unesco.org/neamtws
• or
• http//ioc.unesco.org/indostsunami

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Overview on IOTWS?