Investigations of storms in the region of Marmara in Turkey

Ali Deniz*, E. Tuncay Özdemir, Ismail Sezen, M. Coşkun

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Abstract

Severe weather conditions create negative impacts on humans. One of the severe weather conditions is storms. In the scope of this study, the storm effects on the Marmara Region were investigated using data for the period 2000 to 2010 giving the hourly averaged wind direction and speed in the Marmara Region, as provided by the Turkish Meteorological Service. The monthly distribution of storms has been estimated and their daily variability has been investigated. Additionally, air masses that cause storms have been determined by using NCEP/NCAR re-analysis data. Other than this, by studying the storms, extreme values have been ascertained and northerly values from these storm values (since in percentage terms they are larger) and hourly variability in a single day for 17 weather stations have been depicted graphically. The days that northerly storms reached extreme values are shown with the meteorological maps (surface chart, 850, 700, 500, and 300 hPa) and the temperature diagrams for Istanbul in the Marmara Region have been examined and analysed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)61-71
Number of pages11
JournalTheoretical and Applied Climatology
Volume112
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2013

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