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Change in the glacier extent in Turkey during the Landsat Era    
Yazarlar
Doç. Dr. Doğukan Doğu YAVAŞLI
Ege Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Compton J Tucker
Melocik Katherine A
Özet
We report the latest study for small glaciers, using Turkey as an example, and update previous studies of glaciers in Turkey from the 1970s to 2012-2013. We used seventy-two Landsat scenes from the Multispectral Scanner (MSS), Return Beam Vidicon-3 (RBV-3), Thematic Mapper (TM), Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+), and Operational Land Imager (OLI); five Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) images; and forty-one commercial satellite images. IKONOS, Quickbird-2, GeoEye-1, and WorldView-1 and -2 commercial satellite images were used to evaluate mapping accuracies, to understand debris-covered glacial margins, to map glacier margins in shadows, and to better determine the area of the smaller glaciers in Turkey. We also used nine Landsat-5 simultaneously acquired TM and MSS images to more accurately process MSS imagery from the 1970s. The area of the glaciers in Turkey decreased from 25 km(2) in the 1970s to 10.85 km(2) in 2012-2013. By 2012-2013, five glaciers had disappeared, six were less than 0.5 km(2), one was 0.8 km(2), and only two were 3.0 km(2) or larger. No trends in 1980 to 2012 annual precipitation, 1980 to 2012 winter precipitation, and 1980 to 2008 cloud cover extent were found, while surface temperatures increased, with summer minimum temperatures showing the greatest increases. We attribute glacier recession in Turkey from the 1970s to 2012-2013 to increasing summer minimum temperatures with no changes in precipitation or cloud cover over this time period. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Mountain glaciers, Satellite data, Climate change, Turkey, Landsat, ASTER
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Remote Sensing of Environment
Dergi ISSN 0034-4257
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 06-2015
Cilt No 163
Sayfalar 32 / 41
Doi Numarası 10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.002
Makale Linki http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S003442571500098X
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Change in the glacier extent in Turkey during the Landsat Era

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