Authors: Ali Vardar Ferhat Kurtulmuş Ahmet Darga
Publish Date: 2010/08/17
Volume: 106, Issue: 2, Pages: 255-266
Abstract
This study aims to put out on what ratio Bursa province one of the important heavy industry regions of Turkey has been affected climatic process called “Global Warming” or “Climate Change” For this intend climatic measurement results from Bursa center top of Uludağ Mount Yenişehir and Keles meteorological stations were used These measurements were taken as minimum temperature at nighttime maximum temperature at daytime and mean temperature mean pressure insolation intensity insolation duration mean wind speed minimum temperature above soil soil temperatures at depths of 5 10 and 20 cm rainfall Overall our statistical results showed that there was a considerable warming at statistically 1 and 5 levels in summer months particularly in July Almost all performed measurements confirm this result According to climatic data for thirty years 1975–2005 in the last twelve years contrary to previous 18 years mean temperature values were higher than longterm mean value nine times years repetitively Temperatures did not deviated higher than 05°C in six of these At the temperatures below mean The maximum deviation was −04°C
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