Tsunami watch operations: Global Service Definition Document.
Through Resolution XXIV-14, the IOC Assembly at its 24th session decided on the establishment of a Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards Related to Sea-Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG), tasked primarily to advise the IOC Governing 3. AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ICGS The Area of Responsibility (AoR) of each regional tsunami warning system and the Area of Service (AoS) of Tsunami Service Providers (TSPs) operating within a regional tsunami warning system should be decided by respective ICGs. While addressing the above aspects, it is to be ensured that these systems should offer coverage to the coastal regions of all IOC as well as non IOC Member States that are vulnerable to a tsunami. IOC Technical Series, 130 Bodies on coordinated development and implementation activities on warning and mitigation systems for tsunamis and other hazards related to sea level of common priority to all Intergovernmental Coordination Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems (ICG/TWSs). The Assembly adopted Resolution XXV-13 at its 25th Session in 2009, which established an Inter-ICG Task Team on Tsunami Watch Operations which has since been working towards working towards harmonization of methods and standards for issuance of tsunami advisories, advice on modalities of operation and develop guidelines for the requirements of Regional Warning Systems. This Task Team has already come up with several important recommendations to this effect. The TOWS-WG during its seventh meeting held at Paris in February 2014 actioned the Task Team to develop a Global Tsunami Service Definition Document based on agreed concepts and guidelines and informed by the Task Team report to TOWS-WG-IV. Accordingly, this document describes global tsunami warning services that are provided by regional tsunami warning systems operating in different ocean basins as a global system of systems and coordinated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.
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| Format: | Report biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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UNESCO-IOC
2016
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| Subjects: | Tsunami warning, ASFA_2015::T::Tsunamis, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/42095 |
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