20-31 August 2012

2012 ITIC Training Programme - Hawaii (ITP-Hawaii)
20-31 August 2012
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

At the Twenty-fourth Session of the ICG/PTWS held in Beijing, China, 24-27 May 2011 hosted by the Government of China, Member States endorsed the recommendations of the PTWS Task Team on Enhancing Tsunami Warning Products, and approved the target 2014 implementation of improvedinternational tsunami forecasting products by PTWC.

The products will be the first large-scale modifications to the PTWC bulletins in decades, and will fundamentally change the way in which countries receive and then assess their national tsunami threats. Successful transitioning of the PTWS from its existing products will need a dedicated, comprehensive effort to obtain feedback and provide training to all PTWS countries. Enhanced products are also planned for the Caribbean, and were approved for introduction by Member States at the Seventh Session of the ICG for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE-EWS, April 2012).

Accordingly, the 2012 ITP-Hawaii will focuson Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for tsunami warning and tsunami emergency response to especially local and regional tsunamis, and on the planned new international tsunami forecast products of the PTWC. The 2012 ITP-Hawaii programme description and provisional agenda are attached.

Informational Documents