Analyzing the heat island magnitude and characteristics in one hundred Asian and Australian cities and regions

M Santamouris - Science of the Total Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
Urban heat island is the more documented phenomenon of climate change. Information on
the magnitude and the characteristics of the canopy layer urban heat island measured in …

Heat wave changes in the eastern Mediterranean since 1960

FG Kuglitsch, A Toreti, E Xoplaki… - Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A new data set of high‐quality homogenized daily maximum and minimum summer air
temperature series from 246 stations in the eastern Mediterranean region (including …

Analysis of trends in temperature data in arid and semi-arid regions of Iran

H Tabari, PH Talaee - Global and Planetary Change, 2011 - Elsevier
Trend analysis of climatic variables has received a great deal of attention from researchers
recently. The main aim of this study was to investigate trends in maximum (Tmax) and …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of rainfall and temperature variability over Nigeria

AA Akinsanola, KO Ogunjobi - … Journal of Human-Social Science: B …, 2014 - academia.edu
Federal University of Technology, Nigeria Abstract-This study investigates rainfall and
temperature variabilities in Nigeria using observations of air temperature (oC) and rainfall …

Türkiye'de gözlenen ve öngörülen iklim değişikliği, kuraklık ve çölleşme

M Türkes - Ankara Üniversitesi Çevrebilimleri Dergisi, 2012 - dergipark.org.tr
Bu makalenin başlıca amacı, küresel iklim değişikliği, kuraklık ve çölleşme ile Türkiye'de
gözlenen ve öngörülen iklimsel değişimler, kuraklık ve çölleşmenin bilimsel bir …

Rainfall variability and trends in semi-arid Botswana: implications for climate change adaptation policy

N Batisani, B Yarnal - Applied Geography, 2010 - Elsevier
Rainfall variability is an important feature of semi-arid climates, and climate change is likely
to increase that variability in many of these regions. An understanding of rainfall variability …

Assessment of climate extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean

E Kostopoulou, PD Jones - Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 2005 - Springer
Several seasonal and annual climate extreme indices have been calculated and their trends
(over 1958 to 2000) analysed to identify possible changes in temperature-and precipitation …

Comparison of missing value imputation methods in time series: the case of Turkish meteorological data

C Yozgatligil, S Aslan, C Iyigun, I Batmaz - Theoretical and applied …, 2013 - Springer
This study aims to compare several imputation methods to complete the missing values of
spatio–temporal meteorological time series. To this end, six imputation methods are …

Projected changes in extreme weather and climate events in Europe

GR McGregor, CAT Ferro, DB Stephenson - Extreme weather events and …, 2005 - Springer
Extreme weather and climate events have wide ranging impacts on society as well as on
biophysical systems. That society, on occasions, is unable to cope with extreme weather and …

[PDF][PDF] Spatiotemporal variability of precipitation total series over Turkey

M Turkes, T Koç, F Saris - International Journal of Climatology, 2009 - academia.edu
Long-term changes and trends in the series of monthly, seasonal and annual precipitation
totals of 97 stations in Turkey were analysed by considering their spatial and temporal …