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Assessing the Correlation between Land Cover Conversion and Temporal Climate Change-A Pilot Study in Coastal Mediterranean City, Fethiye, Turkey
WOS: 000360565400007 ; The rapid growth and expansion of urbanized landscapes in cities has resulted in an increase in air temperature and has lowered the bioclimatic comfort levels in urban landscapes. Recent studies to estimate the climatic response of urban landscape conversion have mostly examined the relationship between land use/land cover (LULC) change and land surface temperature (LST) data collected using advanced remote sensing (RS) techniques instead of atmospheric temperature. In this respect, four decadal Landsat images from the 1980s were used to investigate the impact of landscape transformation on atmospheric temperature. The mean and average minimum and maximum monthly air temperature datasets were used in the analysis. The CORINE (Coordination of Information on Environment) index was used to determine LULC diversity in an urban development boundary and urban periphery. Consequently, clustered LULC change values for the last three decades were integrated with decadal air temperature anomalies. The findings revealed an important relationship between monthly mean air temperature and land changes over recent decades, which resulted in an increase in urban fabric land use, deforestation land cover changes and conversion of permanent crop fields to artificial green houses for earlier vegetable production; the R-sqr values for these regressions were 97.7%, 88.5% and 90.6% respectively. On the other hand, the most important increasing temperature trends were obtained for the average monthly minimum air temperature, which supports the global warming concerns of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and related studies, which have concluded that an increased nighttime temperature results in urban heat islands (UHIs). The results should be used to support better urban landscape plans and architectural designs to improve human thermal comfort for sustainable urban life in Mediterranean cities. Street geometry and orientation to wind breeze, the Height/Width H/W ratio of buildings, and sizes of open and green spaces should be examined carefully in urban planning and design for climate adaptation. ; Department of Research Foundation of Mugla Sitki Kocman UniversityMugla Sitki Kocman University [2011/27] ; Part of this research was supported by the Department of Research Foundation of Mugla Sitki Kocman University Project Number: 2011/27. I am thankful to the State Meteorological Office of Fethiye for providing climatological data and to Erdogan Gavcar for statistical revision (Department of Numerical Analysis, Faculty of Business and Administration, Mugla Sitki Kocman University) and to Ihsan Cicek (Department of Geography, Faculty of Letters, Ankara University) for examining the conclusion, designing the framework, and editing and revising the manuscript. The author also thanks editors and anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions.
Assessing the Correlation between Land Cover Conversion and Temporal Climate Change-A Pilot Study in Coastal Mediterranean City, Fethiye, Turkey
WOS: 000360565400007 ; The rapid growth and expansion of urbanized landscapes in cities has resulted in an increase in air temperature and has lowered the bioclimatic comfort levels in urban landscapes. Recent studies to estimate the climatic response of urban landscape conversion have mostly examined the relationship between land use/land cover (LULC) change and land surface temperature (LST) data collected using advanced remote sensing (RS) techniques instead of atmospheric temperature. In this respect, four decadal Landsat images from the 1980s were used to investigate the impact of landscape transformation on atmospheric temperature. The mean and average minimum and maximum monthly air temperature datasets were used in the analysis. The CORINE (Coordination of Information on Environment) index was used to determine LULC diversity in an urban development boundary and urban periphery. Consequently, clustered LULC change values for the last three decades were integrated with decadal air temperature anomalies. The findings revealed an important relationship between monthly mean air temperature and land changes over recent decades, which resulted in an increase in urban fabric land use, deforestation land cover changes and conversion of permanent crop fields to artificial green houses for earlier vegetable production; the R-sqr values for these regressions were 97.7%, 88.5% and 90.6% respectively. On the other hand, the most important increasing temperature trends were obtained for the average monthly minimum air temperature, which supports the global warming concerns of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and related studies, which have concluded that an increased nighttime temperature results in urban heat islands (UHIs). The results should be used to support better urban landscape plans and architectural designs to improve human thermal comfort for sustainable urban life in Mediterranean cities. Street geometry and orientation to wind breeze, the Height/Width H/W ratio of buildings, and sizes of open and green spaces should be examined carefully in urban planning and design for climate adaptation. ; Department of Research Foundation of Mugla Sitki Kocman UniversityMugla Sitki Kocman University [2011/27] ; Part of this research was supported by the Department of Research Foundation of Mugla Sitki Kocman University Project Number: 2011/27. I am thankful to the State Meteorological Office of Fethiye for providing climatological data and to Erdogan Gavcar for statistical revision (Department of Numerical Analysis, Faculty of Business and Administration, Mugla Sitki Kocman University) and to Ihsan Cicek (Department of Geography, Faculty of Letters, Ankara University) for examining the conclusion, designing the framework, and editing and revising the manuscript. The author also thanks editors and anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions.
Assessing the Correlation between Land Cover Conversion and Temporal Climate Change-A Pilot Study in Coastal Mediterranean City, Fethiye, Turkey
Cinar, Ismail (author) / MÜ
2015-01-01
1118
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Electronic Resource
English
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710
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