IOTWS Regional Workshop on SOP for Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response for Northern & Eastern Indian Ocean Countries
The first of these workshops, targeted at northern and eastern Indian Ocean countries, will be held at the Mercure Hotel in Ancol, Jakarta, Indonesia, 23-27 September 2013, hosted by the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG).
The primary goal of the workshop is to assist the ICG/IOTWS Member States to develop their SOPs for responding to RTSP bulletins. The objectives will be: to understand RTSP services and products; to understand the impact of the RTSP products on NTWC SOPs; to identify potential gaps and possible challenges for warning chain SOPs at the national level; to familiarise the electronic media with the RTSP service and develop/adapt SOPs for interfacing with the media; and to prepare for the IOWave14 Exercise, scheduled to take place in late 2014.
