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Clustering current climate regions of Turkey by using a multivariate statistical method
Date
2013-10-01
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İyigün, Cem
Batmaz, İnci
Yozgatlıgil, Ceylan
Koc, Elcin Kartal
Ozturk, Muhammed Z.
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In this study, the hierarchical clustering technique, called Ward method, was applied for grouping common features of air temperature series, precipitation total and relative humidity series of 244 stations in Turkey. Results of clustering exhibited the impact of physical geographical features of Turkey, such as topography, orography, land-sea distribution and the high Anatolian peninsula on the geographical variability. Based on the monthly series of nine climatological observations recorded for the period of 1970-2010, 12 and 14 clusters of climate zones are determined. However, from the comparative analyses, it is decided that 14 clusters represent the climate of Turkey more realistically. These clusters are named as (1) Dry Summer Subtropical Semihumid Coastal Aegean Region; (2) Dry-Subhumid Mid-Western Anatolia Region; (3 and 4) Dry Summer Subtropical Humid Coastal Mediterranean region [(3) West coast Mediterranean and (4) Eastern Mediterranean sub-regions]; (5) Semihumid Eastern Marmara Transition Sub-region; (6) Dry Summer Subtropical Semihumid/Semiarid Continental Mediterranean region; (7) Semihumid Cold Continental Eastern Anatolia region; (8) Dry-subhumid/Semiarid Continental Central Anatolia Region; (9 and 10) Mid-latitude Humid Temperate Coastal Black Sea Region [(9) West Coast Black Sea and (10) East Coast Black Sea sub-regions]; (11) Semihumid Western Marmara Transition Sub-region; (12) Semihumid Continental Central to Eastern Anatolia Sub-region; (13) Rainy Summer Semihumid Cold Continental Northeastern Anatolia Sub-region; and (14) Semihumid Continental Mediterranean to Eastern Anatolia Transition Sub-region. We believe that this study can be considered as a reference for the other climate-related researches of Turkey, and can be useful for the detection of Turkish climate regions, which are obtained by a long-term time course dataset having many meteorological variables.
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Atmospheric Science
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40523
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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-012-0823-7
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C. İyigün, İ. Batmaz, C. Yozgatlıgil, E. K. Koc, and M. Z. Ozturk, “Clustering current climate regions of Turkey by using a multivariate statistical method,”
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY
, pp. 95–106, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40523.