WG1: Risk Knowledge

Purpose: To advise the ICG on the identification and characterization of the risk associated with tsunami and other coastal hazards, and their assessment and required modeling.

Leadership:

- Chair: Frederic Dondin (France)
- Vice-Chair: Raphaël Paris (France)

Tasks:

- Review and evaluate required methods and data sets, including bathymetry and coastal topography for determining coastal hazards.

- Advise the Member States on the requirements for operating the appropriate models for risk assessment.

- Advise and build capacity for risk assessments and their interpretation.

- Present a progress report based on the Key Performance Indicators related to the United Nations (UN) Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme (ODTP)

- Advise and seek advice from Member States about other coastal hazards that can be included into the warning system.

- Promote the sharing of experience and expertise, and capacity building essential to effective tsunami risk knowledge.

Please note that the structure of ICG/CARIBE-EWS Working Groups was updated and modified at ICG/CARIBE-EWS-XVI in April 2023. The webpage for the previous (now outdated and defunct) WG1 on Monitoring and Detection Systems is available here.