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Turkey
2025

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
57
Citations
16530
World Ranking
3372
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Turkey Leader Award

Overview

Zekai Sen is a researcher affiliated with Istanbul Medipol University in Turkey, focusing on environmental science and engineering. Their research primarily addresses challenges related to water resources, climate change, and hydrological systems. Sen's work spans multiple specialized fields, including global and planetary change, water science and technology, civil and structural engineering, atmospheric science, and ocean engineering.

The main topics explored in their research include hydrology and drought analysis, hydrology and watershed management studies, climate variability and models, flood risk assessment and management, water resources management and optimization, water-energy-food nexus studies, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Sen's recent publications provide insight into their areas of expertise and contributions. Notable papers include:

  • "Trend Analyses Methodologies in Hydro-meteorological Records," 2020, Earth Systems and Environment
  • "Reservoirs for Water Supply Under Climate Change Impact-A Review," 2021, Water Resources Management
  • "Temperature and Precipitation Risk Assessment Under Climate Change Effect in Northeast Algeria," 2020, Earth Systems and Environment
  • "Water Structures and Climate Change Impact: a Review," 2020, Water Resources Management
  • "Conceptual monthly trend polygon methodology and climate change assessments," 2021, Hydrological Sciences Journal

Frequent co-authors in Sen's research include Mahmoud Hasbaia, Hamouda Boutaghane, Nour El Houda Belazreg, Ahmed Ferhati, and Besma Boudiaf. These collaborations suggest active partnerships within a network of scholars engaged in related fields.

Sen's publications often appear in journals such as Water Resources Management, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, International Journal of Global Warming, Earth Systems and Environment, and Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. The repeated publication in these venues highlights a concentration on hydrological and climate-related research areas.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • The implications of projected climate change for freshwater resources and their management

    Z.W. Kundzewicz;L.J. Mata;Nigel William Arnell;P. Doll

  • Solar energy in progress and future research trends

    Zekai Şen

  • Trend Identification Simulation and Application

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  • First-order Markov chain approach to wind speed modelling

    Ahmet D. Sahin;Zekai Sen

  • Trend Assessment by the Innovative-Şen Method

    İsmail Dabanlı;İsmail Dabanlı;Zekai Şen;Mehmet Öner Yeleğen;Eyüp Şişman

  • Statistical Analysis of Hydrologic Critical Droughts

    Zekai Sen

  • An application of the degree-hours method to estimate the residential heating energy requirement and fuel consumption in Istanbul

    Ahmet Durmayaz;Mikdat Kadıoǧlu;Zekai Şen

  • Discontinuity spacing and RQD estimates from finite length scanlines

    Z. Sen;Z. Sen;A. Kazi

  • Spatio-temporal drought analysis in the Trakya region, Turkey

    Sevinç Sirdaş;Zekai Sen

  • Long-term spatio-temporal drought variability in Turkey

    İsmail Dabanlı;İsmail Dabanlı;Ashok K. Mishra;Zekai Şen;Zekai Şen

  • Innovative Trend Methodology Applications to Precipitation Records in Turkey

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  • New combined models for estimating daily global solar radiation from measured air temperature in semi-arid climates: Application in Ghardaïa, Algeria

    R. Yacef;A. Mellit;A. Mellit;S. Belaid;Z. Şen

  • Prediction of wave parameters by using fuzzy logic approach

    Mehmet Özger;Zekai Şen

  • Trend Analyses Revision and Global Monthly Temperature Innovative Multi-Duration Analysis

    Abdullah M. Mohorji;Zekâi Şen;Mansour Almazroui

  • River suspended sediment modelling using a fuzzy logic approach

    Ozgur Kisi;M. Emin Karahan;Zekai Şen

  • On the regional wind energy potential of Turkey

    Ahmet Öztopal;Ahmet D Şahin;Nezihe Akgün;Zekai Şen

  • A comparative fuzzy logic approach to runoff coefficient and runoff estimation

    Zekai Şen;Abdüsselam Altunkaynak

  • The greatest soda-water lake in the world and how it is influenced by climatic change

    M. Kadioğlu;Z. Şen;E. Batur

  • Spatial interpolation and estimation of solar irradiation by cumulative semivariograms

    Zekaİ Şen;Ahmet D Şahİn

  • Regional assessment of wind power in western Turkey by the cumulative semivariogram method

    Zekai Şen;Ahmet D. Şahin

  • Fuzzy Logic and Hydrological Modeling

    Zekai Sen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mansour Almazroui
Mansour Almazroui King Abdulaziz University
Ozgur Kisi
Ozgur Kisi Technical University of Applied Sciences Lübeck
Adel Mellit
Adel Mellit University of Jijel
David Andrew Barry
David Andrew Barry École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jean-Yves Parlange
Jean-Yves Parlange Cornell University
Petra Döll
Petra Döll Goethe University Frankfurt
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Andreas N. Angelakis
Andreas N. Angelakis Vodafone (United Kingdom)
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Mohammad Valipour
Mohammad Valipour University of Hawaii at Manoa

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