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

of the relationship between urban characteristics affecting climate elements
in city centers and changes in climate components, and digital infrastructures
in which these data can be constantly monitored should be established in
accordance with the smart city approach. The Turkish State Meteorological
Service, which is legally responsible for the observation, measurement,
storage and presentation of meteorological data, should add the urban
meteorological measurements, according to newly developing standards,
to the station network it has obtained in accordance with the standards
of the World Meteorological Organization for synoptic, climatology and
aviation purposes, or the urban meteorological measurements should also
be added to the Air Quality Monitoring Network maintained by the Ministry
of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change through inter-institutional
cooperation.
It is necessary to develop software technologies, modeling and simulation
techniques which will analyze and instantaneously monitor the data of urban
and rural stations in the existing meteorological observation and measurement
network over many years, taking into account urban characteristics, and
international good practice examples should be tried in the cities of our
country and adaptations should be made accordingly. Particularly in spatial
planning and design studies, legal regulations should be made by taking
into account the effects of urban characteristics on climatic elements in more
detail. Based on the concrete data to be obtained, it should be ensured that
the construction in the spaces designed as climate sensitive is performed in
line with these decisions. For creating the cities resilient to climate hazards
and risks, the examples of good practices should be developed through
implementation in pilot cities or parts of cities. It is necessary to improve the
institutional capacity and human resources of both the departments of climate
change established in local administrations and the Directorate of Climate
Change at the national level, and to ensure that they carry out studies that
also take into account urban climate characteristics.

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