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Suggestions For the Parametrization of Urban Characteristics to
Increase the Climate Resilience of Cities in Türkiye

Table 2. The characteristics affecting the elements of climate and parameters to be
monitored (derived from WMO 2023)

Type of Vegetation and
charac- Form of the built- other types of Urban functions Geographical
teristics up area land cover (human activities) structure

Morphology (build-
ing heights, forms, Land use (function)
density, surface Morphology (form Emissions (heat, Land properties
Related parameters Construction mate- Plant phenology, Human behaviors slope exposure)
coating types,
(altitude, slope,
water, aerosols,
roughness level)
of trees etc.)
gases)
Large open
rials (heat retention
Soil properties,
water surfaces
capacity, heat per-
(mobility habits)
meability, albedo,
heat dissipation Water surfaces Transportation (car, Latitude
capacity, texture of motorcycle, train)
soil surfaces)
The parameters obtained from the intersection of the characteristics given
above and the effects of cities on climate elements at micro, local and meso
scales, the data required for monitoring these parameters, the sources of the
data, the equivalent of these data in Türkiye and information on where they
can be obtained are given in Table 3.
Table 3. Addressing the parameters affecting the urban climate characteristics, the
data related to them and their sources in the world and Türkiye (adapted from WMO
2023)

1. Parameters and data sources for human activities characterizing urban functions (at appro-
priate scale)
Function Datasets Data sources
(human
activities) General Türkiye General Türkiye
–Local administrations
(Municipalities, Metropoli-
Spatial analysis of Urban ad- tan Municipalities, Special
Provincial Administrations)
physical plans (En- ministrations
vironmental Plans; Agricultural Ministry of Agriculture and
City and 1/5000 – 1/1000 directorates Forestry
Land use regional plan- Master Develop- (rural agricul- General Directorate of
ning maps ment Plans) tural lands) Mapping
Special-purpose Copernicus,
sectoral maps (land USGS at a re- Ministry of Environment,
classes, etc.) gional scale Urbanization and Climate
Change (MoEUCC) Gen-
eral Directorate of Spatial
Planning

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