Title: Climatic identity assessment of the climate change

Authors: Z. Fuat Toprak; Nizamettin Hamidi; Şahin Toprak; Zekâi Şen

Addresses: Engineering Faculty, Civil Engineering Department, Dicle University, 21280 Diyarbakir, Turkey; Water Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80200, Jeddah 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ' Engineering Faculty, Civil Engineering Department, Dicle University, 21280 Diyarbakir, Turkey ' Science and Art Faculty, Biology Department, Harran University, Yenisehir Campus, Yenişehir Yerleşkesi, 63300 Şanlıurfa, Turkey ' Civil Engineering Faculty, Civil Engineering Department, Hydraulics Division, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazağa Campus, 34469 Maslak, İstanbul, Turkey

Abstract: In the last few decades, due to the potentially serious impacts upon the atmosphere, earth, and ocean the climate change issue become internationally disputable subject among many scientists including various specialists such as climatologists, atmospheric researchers, oceanographers, hydro-meteorologists, agriculturalists, in particular, local administrators in addition to politicians, as well as the people at different aspects of the life. The main goal of this study is to present a review on global climate change with various dimensions. In order to determine and follow the existence and the local impacts of global climate change for any country or region, reliable data are needed essentially in a comparative, illustrative, and visual format. For an effective basis, it is appropriate to use internationally recognised scenarios in addition to national linguistic (verbal) as well as numerical data and a common format for the meteorological observations and measurements. Therefore, it is another aim of this paper to provide an extensive but crisp review about the climate change by considering 'climatic identity' concept concerning which information should be reported in the commonly formatted records.

Keywords: global climate change; climatic parameters; global warming impacts; temperature; climatic identity assessment; data reliability; commonly formatted records.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGW.2013.051480

International Journal of Global Warming, 2013 Vol.5 No.1, pp.30 - 45

Received: 09 Mar 2012
Accepted: 22 Jul 2012
Published online: 28 Feb 2014 *

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