Observed changes and trends in numbers of summer and tropical days, and the 2010 hot summer in Turkey

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1898-1908

  Erlat, Ecmel ^a   Türkeş, Murat ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Climate change and variability; Heat wave; Mann Kendall rank correlation test; Maximum air temperature; Summer and tropical days; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; HEAT-WAVE; RANK CORRELATION; SUMMER AND TROPICAL DAYS; TURKEY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

TROPICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; DETECTION METHOD; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SUMMER; TESTING METHOD; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

AIR; CLIMATES; CORRELATION; DEFORESTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS; TURKEY;

ANATOLIA; TURKEY;

EID: 84879222041     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3556     Document Type: Article

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