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The Turkish Government has planned to establish 400 new automatic weather stations (AWSs) in seven natural disaster‐prone regions throughout the country. Site selection is one of the most important steps in the process of setting up an AWS. In this study, a GIS‐based siting method was developed and applied in order to identify the most appropriate sites for five AWSs to be constructed in Trabzon Province...
We begin our February 2016 issue of Weather with a study of the dangers of winds over mountain ranges on p. 27. In ‘Wind hazard in the alpine zone: a case study in Alberta, Canada’ Chris Hugenholtz and Geoffrey Van Heller discuss the effects of winds of a relatively extreme mountain environment using data from an automatic weather station in the Front Ranges of the eastern Rocky Mountains. Dangers...
Strong winds can be a dominant characteristic of the climate in the alpine biogeographic zone and can reach speeds capable of causing people to lose balance or even blowing them over. However, in contrast to urban settings, where a considerable body of literature has examined mechanical effects of wind on people, in alpine zones the hazard associated with wind is almost entirely based on anecdotal...
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