DATE2016-05-31 10:09:48
IDABSTRACT20160531100948-1070
CONTACTtufan.turp@boun.edu.tr
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IDSESSION4
TITLEIMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE CLIMATE EXTREMES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
AUTHORSMustafa Tufan Turp (1,2), Nazan An (1,2), Kamil Collu (2,3), Tugba Ozturk (2,4), Mehmet Levent Kurnaz (2,5)
AFFILIATIONS
  1. Department Of Environmental Sciences, Institute Of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University Istanbul (Turkey)
  2. Center For Climate Change And Policy Studies Istanbul (Turkey)
  3. Department Of Computational Science And Engineering, Institute Of Graduate Studies In Science And Engineering, Bogazici University Istanbul (Turkey)
  4. Department Of Physics, Faculty Of Arts And Sciences, Isik University Istanbul (Turkey)
  5. Department Of Physics, Faculty Of Arts And Sciences, Bogazici University Istanbul (Turkey)
ABSTRACTThe Middle East is one of the most vulnerable regions to the impacts of climate change. Because of the importance of the region and its vulnerability to global climate change, the studies including the investigation of projected changes in the climate of the Middle East play a crucial role in order to struggle with the negative effects of climate change. This research points out the relationship between the climate change and climate extremes indices in the Middle East and it investigates the changes in the number of extreme events as described by the joint CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team (ET) on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI). As part of the study, the regional climate model (RegCM4.4) of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is run to obtain future projection data. This research has been supported by Bogaziçi University Research Fund Grant Number 10421.
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