Turkish State Meteorological Service

1. Turkish State Meteorological Service

2. Turkish State Meteorological Service • Content: • Introduction • Turkey • Demographic • Geographic • Economic • Turkish State Meteorological Service • History • Recent Situation • RevolvingFunds • CapacityInformation • ProductandServices • Sectors • Conclusion

3. Turkish State Meteorological Service Turkey: Demographic Population: 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)

4. Turkish State Meteorological Service • 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

5. Turkish State Meteorological Service Turkey: Economic: GDP: 822,1 Billion USD

6. Turkish State Meteorological Service Turkey: EconomicStructure: • Main Climate and Weather-related hazards: • Flood, drought and extreme heat/cold temperatures.

7. Turkish State Meteorological Service • 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.

8. Turkish State Meteorological Service 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 InternationalMeteorologicalOrganizations; 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

9. Turkish State Meteorological Service • 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 morethanhundred participants)

10. Turkish State Meteorological Service TSMS: RevolvingFunds

11. Turkish State Meteorological Service • 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…

12. Turkish State Meteorological Service • TSMS: • Challanges • Complex and irregular topography • Several micro-climate regions • Hard conditions for observation and weather forecasting

13. Turkish State Meteorological Service • 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 andVirtualClimateCenterfor ECOMembers(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 ProjectCenter • 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

14. Turkish State Meteorological Service • 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

15. Turkish State Meteorological Service • TSMS: • Product and Services: • Hourly, daily, 4km sq modelrun • 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

16. Turkish State Meteorological Service • TSMS: • Sectors: • Transportation, • Agriculture, • Military, • Education, • Justice, • Insurance, • Aviation, • Renewable Energy Sectors, • Construction, • Forestry, • Industry, • Education,

17. Turkish State Meteorological Service Conclusion Thanksforlistening…