Sea Level Monitoring
TSU/MAB Coastal Hazards Project
The Symposium: Advances in Tsunami Warning to Enhance Community Responses
Coming from 25 countries and six international organizations, 105 physical and social scientists, warning system operators, emergency and response managers, attended the UNESCO/IOC Symposium on Advances in Tsunami Warning to Enhance Community Responses from 12 to 14 February 2018 at UNESCO, Paris. The symposium was organized by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.
The aim of the symposium was to:
1) Review the latest and potential new technologies and procedures for estimating tsunami threat and test their suitability and feasibility for providing more timely and accurate warnings. 2) Consider ways of estimating uncertainties associated with threat assessments and optimal ways of conveying these uncertainties to decision-makers. 3) Examine ways of utilising enhanced tsunami threat information in making decisions with regards to emergency responses. 4) Provide information on the latest technologies for disseminating tsunami warning information to responders and communities. 5) Formulate roadmaps for developing and implementing new technologies, procedures and their application to enable more effective community responses to tsunami threats.
Welcoming remarks were provided by Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of IOC and Assistant Director-General of UNESCO.
Summary statement of the symposium is available at:
