Bridgetown,
Barbados
| 1 | DAY 1 - Overview |
| 1.1 | ICG/CARIBE EWS-X Outcomes, specifically for the CARIBE-EWS Enhanced Products |
| 1.2 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs |
| 1.3 | Key Stakeholders: Tsunami Warning Center SOPs – What do Tsunami Warning Centres (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? Challenges in Detection and Tsunami Threat Assessment |
| 1.4 | Key Stakeholders: Tsunami Emergency Response SOPs: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear) |
| 1.5 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) SOPs |
| 1.6 | Country SOPs |
| 2 | DAY 2 – TWC Operations |
| 2.1 | TWC Operations: Seismic monitoring in the Caribbean |
| 2.2 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Limitations, Challenges |
| 2.3 | TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring in the Caribbean |
| 2.4 | TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring – Instruments, Limitations, Challenges |
| 2.5 | Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Earthquakes: Real-time Earthquake Display (CISN), USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER) |
| 2.6 | Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Tsunamis: TideTool with Tsunami Travel Times, IOC Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility web site) |
| 2.7 | TWC Operations: Travel Time Forecasting – Techniques, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies |
| 2.8 | TWC Operations: Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Techniques, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies, Sensitivity Studies |
| 3 | DAY 3 – CARIBE-EWS PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 3.1 | CARIBE EWS PTWC Enhanced Products Overview – What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats) |
| 3.2 | PTWC Enhanced Products – Staging |
| 3.3 | PTWC Enhanced Products – Explanation of Each Product: Text, Forecast Polygon Map, Graphical Deep-Ocean Energy, Coastal Forecast, Forecast Tables, KMZ file |
| 3.4 | TWC and TER Guidance on how to use PTWC New Enhanced Products for National Warnings and Evacuation – Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timelinedriven SOPs, Message Templates |
| 3.5 | Activity: Improving Response – What Happens When? Distant and Local Scenarios |
| 3.6 | Tsunami Hazard Scenarios for the Caribbean – Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 3.7 | Tsunami Table Top Exercises – Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 4 | DAY 4 – Tsunami Exercises |
| 4.1 | Tsunami Table Top Exercises – Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 4.2 | Summary Discussion: Country Readiness for PTWC New Enhanced Products |