TY - GEN
T1 - August 11, 1999 solar eclipse over Turkey and associated effects
AU - Kalafatoglu, E. Ceren
AU - Kaymaz, Zerefsan
AU - Tan, Elcin
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Turkey was one of the perfect sites to watch the total solar eclipse in August 11, 1999. The total eclipse was observed across a diagonal path extending from Bartin (41.63°N, 32.33°E) on the Black Sea coast to Diyarbakir (37.55°N, 40.14°E) in southeastern Turkey. The weather was cloudless and therefore the eclipse effects were expected to be clearly observable and attributable to the eclipse event. The effect of the solar eclipse progresses from the upper atmosphere downward. As the moon moves thorough the Sun, a Shock wave is created in the upper atmosphere and transmitted downward which can be detected in the pressure variations on the surface. The cooling effect of the total eclipse is observable in the temperature and humidity records. It has been suggested that the total eclipse can create a local anticyclonic (clockwise) rotation of the surface winds within the totality region and the strength of the wind is seen to decrease. In this study, we present the observations of temperature and wind recorded over two stations on the totality path and investigate some of these eclipse related effects and compare our finding with those of earlier studies. The advantage of this study is that both stations within the area of 100 % totality and exhibit cloudless skies during the eclipse totality.
AB - Turkey was one of the perfect sites to watch the total solar eclipse in August 11, 1999. The total eclipse was observed across a diagonal path extending from Bartin (41.63°N, 32.33°E) on the Black Sea coast to Diyarbakir (37.55°N, 40.14°E) in southeastern Turkey. The weather was cloudless and therefore the eclipse effects were expected to be clearly observable and attributable to the eclipse event. The effect of the solar eclipse progresses from the upper atmosphere downward. As the moon moves thorough the Sun, a Shock wave is created in the upper atmosphere and transmitted downward which can be detected in the pressure variations on the surface. The cooling effect of the total eclipse is observable in the temperature and humidity records. It has been suggested that the total eclipse can create a local anticyclonic (clockwise) rotation of the surface winds within the totality region and the strength of the wind is seen to decrease. In this study, we present the observations of temperature and wind recorded over two stations on the totality path and investigate some of these eclipse related effects and compare our finding with those of earlier studies. The advantage of this study is that both stations within the area of 100 % totality and exhibit cloudless skies during the eclipse totality.
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U2 - 10.1109/RAST.2007.4284043
DO - 10.1109/RAST.2007.4284043
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:46449110905
SN - 1424410576
SN - 9781424410576
T3 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies, RAST 2007
SP - 50
EP - 53
BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies, RAST 2007
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies, RAST 2007
Y2 - 14 June 2007 through 16 June 2007
ER -