@article{article_1022639, title={Evaluating The Sunshine Duration Characteristics In Association With Other Climate Variables}, journal={Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi}, pages={200–207}, year={2021}, DOI={10.31590/ejosat.1022639}, author={Zateroglu, Mine Tulin}, keywords={Sunshine duration, Climate variables, Pearson Correlation Analysis}, abstract={Many processes such as for industrial production, heating, cooling, health, education and etc. are depended on and use the energy. In recent years, the consumption of energy has been increased over the world. Fossil energy sources cannot meet the increase in energy demand. So, renewable energy sources especially solar energy become important in this way. The applications with solar energy present clear and environment friendly systems. Sunshine duration which is used for estimating the solar energy is very crucial parameter for human life. Climate variables in atmospheric environment have influences on sunshine duration. This study aims to demonstrate the relations between daily sunshine duration and other climate variables such as cloud amount, atmospheric pressure, maximum air temperature, minimum air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation and wind speed. The data of all climate variables were obtained from the measurements of ground based observation station belonging to the Turkish State Meteorological Service. The long term records based on daily measurements were examined for Rize meteorological station. The daily observation values for sunshine duration and other climate variables were transformed to mean montly values. A 51 years (1960-2010) database was statistically analyzed by using the method named as Pearson Correlation Analysis (%95 confidence interval). The obtained results over this analysis were shown that sunshine duration was associated with other climate variables. The grade of these relations was changed according the different time periods. The amount of relations were obtained generally in moderate, good and weak degrees as statistically significant (p <0.05). Sunshine duration was highly negatively correlated with cloud amount generally except the exceptional circumstances such as moderate for December. The correlations for sunshine duration and the other climate variables were found as negatively for relative humidity, atmospheric pressure and precipitation and positively for wind speed, maximum and minimum air temperature.}, number={29}, publisher={Osman SAĞDIÇ}