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Has the climate been changing in Turkey? Regional climate change signals based on a comparative statistical analysis of two consecutive time periods, 1950-1980 and 1981-2010

2016; Inter-Research Science Center; Volume: 70; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3354/cr01410

1616-1572

Murat Türkeş, Ceylan Yozgatlıgil, İnci Batmaz, Cem İyigün, Elçin Kartal Koç, FM Fahmi, Sipan Aslan,

Tree-ring climate responses

CR Climate Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials CR 70:77-93 (2016) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01410 Has the climate been changing in Turkey? Regional climate change signals based on a comparative statistical analysis of two consecutive time periods, 1950-1980 and 1981-2010 Murat Türkeş1,*, Ceylan Yozgatlıgil2, İnci Batmaz2, Cem İyigün3, Elçin Kartal Koç2, Fidan M. Fahmi2, Sipan Aslan2 1The Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey 2Middle East Technical University, Department of Statistics, 06800 Ankara, Turkey 3Middle East Technical University, Department of Industrial Engineering, 06800 Ankara, Turkey *Corresponding author: ‑murat.turkes@boun.edu.tr ABSTRACT: In this study, the climate zones of Turkey were re-examined using different objective statistical tests based on the differences in the behaviour of meteorological variables, and a comparative analysis of 2 consecutive periods was performed statistically. The data consisted of total precipitation, and minimum, maximum and mean air temperature series recorded from 1950-2010 at 244 climatological/meteorological stations operated by the Turkish Meteorological Service. K-means and hierarchical clustering methods were applied separately to each variable to obtain surface air temperature and precipitation patterns in Turkey for the periods of 1950-1980 and 1981-2010. Paired-samples Student's t-test (paired t-test) and Pitman-Morgan (P-M) t-test were used to detect possible changes in the mean and variance of the series in the transition from one period to the other. The results of the analysis reveal that the climate characteristics of Turkey are generally similar for the temperature series under study. However, there are some changes in the existing geographical patterns of the climate regions. Statistical tests show that all 3 air temperature series increased after 1980. The major changes appeared in the precipitation regions of Turkey: there were significant changes in the continental central, central-west and central-east Anatolia regions, and in the continental north and eastern Anatolia region. It was also apparent that precipitation amounts increased in the northern and eastern regions of Turkey after 1980, but amounts decreased in the west, central and southern regions, most of which are generally characterized as having a dry summer subtropical Mediterranean climate. KEY WORDS: Turkey · Mediterranean climate · Abrupt climate change · k-means · Hierarchical clustering · Statistical comparison tests Full text in pdf format Supplementary material PreviousNextCite this article as: Türkeș M, Yozgatlıgil C, Batmaz İ, İyigün C, Kartal Koç E, Fahmi FM, Aslan S (2016) Has the climate been changing in Turkey? Regional climate change signals based on a comparative statistical analysis of two consecutive time periods, 1950-1980 and 1981-2010. Clim Res 70:77-93. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01410 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in CR Vol. 70, No. 1. Online publication date: September 26, 2016 Print ISSN: 0936-577X; Online ISSN: 1616-1572 Copyright © 2016 Inter-Research.