A Turkish meteorologist has developed an early warning system that can detect sudden-onset weather hazards up to 60 hours before they occur, a breakthrough that could strengthen disaster preparedness and reduce economic losses linked to extreme weather.
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Professor Hasan Tatlı, a meteorological engineer and faculty member at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, said the system is designed to identify rapidly developing events such as heat waves, cold spells, convective windstorms and droughts well in advance.
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Tatlı’s Integrated Early Warning System model combines weather forecasting with dynamic systems theory to produce a single, easy-to-interpret risk index. The index is based on four core components: atmospheric sensitivity, recovery capacity, threat propagation potential and behavioral response tendencies.
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Tatlı said the model could play a key role in agriculture, where sudden drought, frost and heavy rainfall can disrupt production and threaten food security. He added that urban areas could also benefit, as heat waves and flooding increasingly strain energy networks and transportation systems.