Medium-term strategy: Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS MTS), 2014-2021

The PTWS Medium-Term Strategy (PTWSMTS) outlines the vision of a continuously improving Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) to meet stakeholder requirements during the period 2014–2021. This MTS is aligned with the eight year cycle of our parent body’s Medium–T erm Strategy. The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) MTS (Resolution XXVII-2, part B) identifies early warning systems as an important part of its strategic vision and has aligned its MTS with the strategic planning cycle of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The PTWS MTS focuses on describing general and essential strategic objectives to ensure an effective and efficient tsunami warning and mitigation system that is interoperable wherever possible with the other ocean basins and seas. The structure of the PTWS Working Group (WG) derives from the PTWS MTS and is described in the PTWS Working Group Structure document (ICG/PTWS-XXIII, Annex VI). Details of the methods of accomplishing these strategic objectives are defined in the PTWS Implementation Plan (version 2, 2001, draft document, IOC Technical Series No 86).

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The PTWS Medium Term Strategy (PTWS MTS) was approved at the ICG/PTWS-XXIII in February, 2009.  It describes the basic directions towards continuously improving the Pacific Tsunami Warning & Mitigation System to meet stakeholder requirements during the period 2009-2013. It focuses on describing general, common but essential, strategic objectives to ensure an effective and efficient, tsunami warning and mitigation system that is interoperable wherever possible with the other ocean basins and seas. The PTWS working group structure derives from the PTWS MTS and is described in the PTWS Working group Structure. And details of the methods to accomplish these strategic objectives are defined in the PTWS Implementation Plan.