Determining Turkey's regional atmospheric variables dependent LST algorithms

In this study, the parameters of land surface temperatures of Turkey was determined by using the Split-Window tecnique which depends atmospheric variables.These parameters are very important for drought, the energie cycle of earth and natural disaster. The humidity and temperature values which were measured during 1990-2007 by the Radiosonde for different regions of Turkey are used to calculate reginal precipitable water values and NOAA-AVHRR satellite data during 2000 were used to calculate the surface temperature values.Algorthms for reginal studies were produced as a function of atmospheric variables. The regression coefficient between the measured and calculated data were found as R2=0.98 for own region of the algorithm and as R2=0.96 for the other regions where the same algorithm was used to calculate LST