The course is organized within the framework of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE-EWS) by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, the Commonwealth Marine Economies Programme (CME, UK), the National Oceanography Centre (NOC, UK), the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center (UHSLC), and the Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program (US NOAA/NWS). IOC invites the Caribbean Tsunami Warning Focal Points and Tsunami National Contacts to nominate a sea-level station professional to participate in this training course. The person should be responsible for conducting and supporting the data analysis and quality control of the sea-level stations in your country. Participants should also have skills with computers and processing databases, basic knowledge on oceanographic concepts; and should hold a permanent position with a national or regional agency. Before attending the training, participants are expected to become familiar with the volumes of the IOC sea-level Manuals and Guides 14 available at http://www.psmsl.org/train_and_info/training/manuals/. Currently over 76 sea-level stations in the Caribbean and adjacent regions are contributing to the CARIBE-EWS and are available to the Tsunami Service Providers and National Tsunami Warning Centres. The data are also important for monitoring other short-term (e.g. storm surges) and long-term sea-level changes. The course will include training on TASK, the UK NOC Tidal Analysis Software Kit. TASK is a suite of programmes that includes quality control, harmonic analysis, tidal prediction, formatted tide table production, data manipulation and the calculation of daily and monthly means (see http://noc.ac.uk/business/marine-data-products/tidal-analysis.

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