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Zeynep Aydın^1*, Aykut Yılmaz Özdemir²

¹ It should be written in 9-point Times New Roman font, and the postal code, district, city, and country must be specified. Email address and ORCID information must also be provided. Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Taşkışla Campus, 34367, Şişli, İstanbul, Türkiye

² Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Department of Climate Science and Meteorological Engineering, Ayazağa Campus, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Türkiye

aydinz4915@itu.edu.tr, etozdemir@itu.edu.tr

Zeynep Aydın: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0009-0004-3785-6725

Aykut Yılmaz Özdemir: https://orcid.org/0000-0303-4784-1325

^* Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT
This text should be written in 10-point Times New Roman font and must not exceed 250 words. This study investigates southerly windstorms that affected the Marmara Region between 2000 and 2010, focusing on their annual and monthly distribution and frequency. Synoptic-scale patterns associated with these windstorms were also analyzed. It was determined that 98.85% of the windstorms were directly related to frontal systems associated with the approach or passage of low-pressure centers and their corresponding fronts, or with warm sector intrusions.

Keywords: Southerly windstorms, Marmara Region, low-pressure systems, frontal systems (written in 9-point italic Times New Roman, maximum 4 keywords)

1. INTRODUCTION

This is an extended abstract prepared for the 1^st Aviation Meteorology 360° Symposium & Workshop. The language of the Symposium & Workshop will be both Turkish and English. For extended abstracts, the text should be written in 12-point Times New Roman font, justified alignment, and single line spacing. However, when writing complex mathematical content, additional spacing between lines may be added to prevent overlapping of superscripts and subscripts.

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2. METHOD, DATA, STUDY AREA

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST

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DATA AVAILABILITY

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ETHICS STATEMENT

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USE OF AI TOOLS

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REFERENCES

Citations should be given in the text as Etling and Brown (1993) or (Etling and Brown, 1993). The reference list should be presented in alphabetical order and formatted according to APA 7 style.

Etling, D. & Brown, R.A. (1993). Roll vortices in the planetary boundary layer: A review. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 65, 215-248.

Holton, J. R., & Hakim, G. J. (2013). An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology (fifth edition) (pp. 154-157). Waltham: Elsevier Academic Press.

Knox, J. A., Frye, J. D., Durkee, J. D., & Fuhrmann, C. M. (2011). Non-convective high winds associated with extratropical cyclones. Geography Compass, 5(2), 63–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00395.x

Mecikalski, R. M., & Carey, L. D. (2017). Lightning characteristics relative to radar, altitude and temperature for a multicell, MCS and supercell over northern Alabama. Atmospheric Research, 191, 128–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.03.001

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