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Degree-days as a measure of accumulated temperature deviations from a base temperature have many practical applications in various human related activities such as home cooling, heating, plant growth in agriculture and power generation in addition to energy requirement. Long temperature records are necessary for their reliable estimations at given stations. In this paper, degree-day measure has been applied to monthly temperature records for systematically changed base temperature values from − 25 °C to + 35 °C with 5 °C increments at 255 meteorology stations in Turkey. The results are represented in the form of spatial degree-day distribution maps, which are then related to various climatic, meteorological and topographic features of Turkey. For instance, free surface water bodies in forms of surrounding seas, lakes and rivers insert retardation in the expansion of heating degree-days over large regions. On the other hand, cold air penetration from polar regions in the northeastern Turkey originating from Siberia appears at moderate base temperature heating degree-days.
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Received August 20, 1998 Revised June 21, 1999
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Kadıoğlu, M., Şen, Z. & Gültekin, L. Spatial Heating Monthly Degree-Day Features and ClimatologicPatterns in Turkey. Theor Appl Climatol 64, 263–269 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007040050128
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s007040050128