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Climate plays a crucial role in the development of soils on the surface of the earth. In fact, there is a broad agreement between the distributions of soil and climate types at a global scale.

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Acknowledgements

This research has partly been accomplished by funds from the United Nations Development Program through ‘MDG-F 1680’ project entitled “Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey to Adapt to Climate Change”. We are grateful to the National High Performance Computing Center at İstanbul Technical University for providing the computational resources for performing the regional climate simulations.

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  1. Informatics Institute, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey

    Ufuk Utku Turunçoğlu

  2. Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey

    Murat Türkeş

  3. Center for Climate and Resilience Research , University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Deniz Bozkurt

  4. Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey

    Deniz Bozkurt, Ömer Lütfi Şen & Hasan Nüzhet Dalfes

  5. Aeronautics and Astronautics Faculty, Meteorological Engineering, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey

    Barış Önol

  6. Mercator-IPC Fellowship Program, İstanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University, İstanbul, Turkey

    Ömer Lütfi Şen

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  1. Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey

    Selim Kapur

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  3. Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat, Turkey

    Hikmet Günal

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Turunçoğlu, U.U., Türkeş, M., Bozkurt, D., Önol, B., Şen, Ö.L., Dalfes, H.N. (2018). Climate. In: Kapur, S., Akça, E., Günal, H. (eds) The Soils of Turkey. World Soils Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64392-2_3

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