Human population growth and temperature increase along with the increase in urbanisation, motor vehicle numbers and green area amount in the sample of Erzurum city, Turkey

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 148, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 205-213

  Yilmaz, Sevgi ^a   Toy, Süleyman ^b   Demircioglu Yildiz, Nalan ^a   Yilmaz, Hasan ^a  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Meteorology Office   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Erzurum; Motor vehicle use; Population growth; Semi decadal temperature increase; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MOTORS; VEHICLES;

ERZURUM; MOTOR VEHICLE USE; POPULATION GROWTH; SEMI-DECADAL TEMPERATURE INCREASE; URBANISATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CAR USE; DECADAL VARIATION; GREENSPACE; POPULATION GROWTH; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXHAUST GAS; FOREST; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; POPULATION GROWTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBANIZATION;

CITIES; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; POPULATION GROWTH; TEMPERATURE; TURKEY; URBANIZATION;

ERZURUM [ERZURUM (PRV)]; ERZURUM [TURKEY]; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 58049161097     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0151-z     Document Type: Article

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