Citation

Yilmaz S, Toy S, Demircioglu Yildiz N, Yilmaz H. Environ. Monit. Assess. 2009; 148(1-4): 205-213.

Affiliation

Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ataturk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey. syilmaz_68@hotmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10661-007-0151-z

PMID

18210203

Abstract

In the study, main purpose was to determine the effect of population growth along with the increase in urbanisation, motor vehicle use and green area amount on the temperature values using a 55-year data set in Erzurum, which is hardly industrialised, and one of the coldest cities with highest elevation in Turkey. Although the semi-decadal increases, means of which are 0.1 degrees C for mean, minimum and maximum temperatures, are not clear enough to make a strong comment even in the lights of figures or tables, it was found as the result of the statistical analysis that population growth and increases in the number of vehicles, the number of buildings and the green area amount in the city have no significant effect on mean temperatures. However, the relationships between population growth and maximum temperature; and the number of vehicles and minimum temperature were found to be statistically significant.

Language: en