Turkish State Meteorological Service Fatih Kaya External Relations Division Turkish State...

Turkish State Meteorological Service

Fatih Kaya

External Relations DivisionTurkish State Meteorological

ServicePhone : 00 90 530 388 3018

Fax : 00 90 312 359 7568E-mail : [email protected]

Qualifications: •External Relations, Internal Auditor.

Education: •Meteorological Technician School, Engineering Faculty, Institute for International Relations and EU Studies, and negotiation techniques, Internal Auditor.

Work: •Observer, Forecaster, Chief Forecaster, External Relations Expert.

Publications:•Total Quality Management and EFQM Perfection Model, TSMS (2007)•NGOs effectiveness for Turkey in terms of Globalization and EU (2011)

Content:

1.Introduction

2.Turkey

• Demographic

• Geographic

• Economic

3.Turkish State Meteorological Service

• History

• Recent Situation

• Revolving Funds

• Capacity Information

• Product and Services

• Sectors

4.Conclusion


Turkey:

DemographicPopulation: 76 Million

Age structure:

0-14 years: 25.5% (male 10,660,110/female 10,179,850)15-24 years: 16.8% (male 6,989,099/female 6,709,480)25-54 years: 42.9% (male 17,650,790/female 17,358,730)55-64 years: 8.1% (male 3,289,605/female 3,291,199)65 years and over: 6.7% (male 2,517,219/female 2,973,310)


Turkey:

Geographic Information:

Turkey is situated in Anatolia and the Balkans, bordering

the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and

bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea,

between Greece and Syria.

Land Line :2,627 km

Coastline : 7,200 km

Area :

•total: 783,562 sq km

•land: 769,632 sq km

•water: 13,930 sq km


Turkey:

Economic:

GDP: 822,1 Billion USD

PP Unit 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

GDP USD 8800 8790 8390 9250 10130 10600 10660 10970GDP Growth % 4,7 0,7 -4,8 9,2 8,8 2,1 4,2 2,9


Turkey:

Economic Structure: Sectors Percent Average

(2004-2014)

Agriculture, forestry, fishing % 8,8

Industry % 21,9

Trade, Transport, Telecommunication % 31,2

Finance, insurance, real estate, business % 21,2

Other services % 12,0

Main Climate and Weather-related hazards:

•Flood, drought and extreme heat/cold temperatures.


TSMS:

The Turkish State Meteorological Service, TSMS, was founded in 1937. It is the only legal

organization which provides all meteorological information in Turkey.

The main objectives of the TSMS are:

•To make observations,

•To provide forecasts,

•To provide climate data, archive data, and other information,

•To communicate these to the public,

•To provide meteorological needs of army and civil aviation.


TSMS:

History

1839 The first meteorological observations in Istanbul

1873 Participated in the International Meteorological

Congress (Vienna)

1875 First Observation Network established with 16 stations

1915 Upper air observations and weather forecasts started

1925 Establishment of Meteorological Institute

1938 Establishment of Turkish State Meteorological Service

1949 Became member of International Meteorological Organizations;

WMO (1949), ECMWF (1975), EUMETSAT (1984), ECOMET (1999)

2000 Recognized as one of the 23 Regional Training Centre (RTC) of WMO

2008 Became member of ALADIN Consortium


TSMS:

Recent Situation:

•Governmental Organization

•15 Regional Centers (also serve as regional forecast centers)

•3034 personal

•605 personal for aviation

•Head-Quarter ( 969 personal)

•Annual Governmental Budget 100 million USD (approx.)

•2014 Revolving funds income 30 million USD (approx.)

•WMO-Regional Training Center ( more than 100 countries more than

hundred participants)


TSMS:

Revolving Funds


TSMS:

Observation Network:

•1080 AWOS station(+150 by 2016)

•66 AWOS for Aviation (+3 by 2016)

•14 Radars(Mobile and Maritime Radars included) (+4 by 2016)

•9 points for Upper-Air Observing systems (+1 by 2016)

•“Recently 6,5 million EURO funds released for ongoing projects and renovation…


TSMS:

Challanges

•Complex and irregular topography

•Several micro-climate regions

•Hard conditions for observation and weather forecasting


TSMS:

Capacity Information

International•As WMO RTC-Turkey: hosted more than 700 participants more than 100 different

countries(2001-2014)

•Serving as ECO (Economic Cooperation Organization) Calibration Center and Virtual

Climate Center for ECO Members (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,

•Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)

•Serving as East Mediterranean Climate Center (EMCC)

• Black Sea and Middle East Flash Flood Guidance Project Center

•Coordinator of SADCA with EUMETSAT (Meteorological Satellite Data Access for Central

Asia) project (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)

•28 International Mutual and Bilateral Agreements in the field of Meteorology

•65 National Agreements for Meteorological Services


TSMS:

Capacity Information

National•Running ALARO, ECMWF, MM5, WRF Numerical Models

•Running Maritime and Wave Models

•Running Dust Models,

•Coding our own programs:

•“Turk Metcap” telecommunication&data software,

•“Kardelen” telecommunication&data software,

•TUMAS data archive and quality control system,

•Mobile applications(IOS, Android, Windows, JAVA platforms

•Sound of Meteorology ( Our own radio station since 1962)

•Software solutions for sectors and users


TSMS:

Product and Services:•Hourly, daily, 4km sq model run

•Seasonal forecast

•Frost Warning System

•Radar and Satellite products

•Maritime forecasts,

•Highway forecasting system,

•Seaway forecasting system,

•Aviation forecasting system,

•Crop forecasting system,

•Flash Flood Guidance System,

•Drought management,

•SDS warning system


TSMS:

Sectors:•Transportation,

•Agriculture,

•Military,

•Education,

•Justice,

•Insurance,

•Aviation,

•Renewable Energy Sectors,

•Construction,

•Forestry,

•Industry,

•Education,


Conclusion

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