Eğitim (education):

Doktora (PhD.):            University of Reading, İngiltere, 1997
Yüksek Lisans (MSc.): University of Reading, İngiltere, 1992
Lisans (BSc.):               İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi,       1990

Araştırma alanları (Research areas): 

Atmosfer - iklim dinamiği ve modellemesi; iklim değişkenliği ve değişimi; atmosferik engelleme; soğuk ve sıcak hava dalgalarının dinamiği ve tespiti; yüksek etkili hava ve iklim olayları; mevsimsel ve on yılsal tahminler; iklim değişikliğinin sektörel etkileri ve uyum

Seçilmiş Çalışmaları (Selected Studies):

Demirtaş, M. (2023) The anomalously hot summer of 2021 over the Euro-Mediterranean region: underlying atmospheric drivers and heatwaves. Theor Appl Climatol 152, 861–870 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04437-w

Demirtaş, M. (2023) The high-impact sea-effect snowstorm of February 2020 over the southern Black Sea. Acta Geophysica, 71, 1361–1371, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-023-01046-z

Demirtaş, M. (2022): A lake-effect snowstorm over southern Europe with upstream blocking in early January 2017. Weather.

Demirtaş, M.(2022): The anomalously cold January 2017 in the south-eastern Europe in a warming climate. International Journal of Climatology.”

Demirtaş, M. (2016): The October 2011 Devastating Flash Flood Event of Antalya: Triggering Mechanisms and Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142: 2336-2346, doi:10.1002/qj.2827.”

Demirtas, M. and A. J. Thorpe (1999): Sensitivity of short-range weather forecasts to local potential vorticity modifications. Mon. Weather Rev., 127, 922–939

Demirtaş, M. (2018): The high-impact 2007 hot summer over Turkey: atmospheric-blocking and heat-wave episodes. Meteorological Applications, 25(3), 406-413, doi: 10.1002/met.1708.

Demirtaş, M. (2017): The large scale environment of the European 2012 high-impact cold wave: prolonged upstream and downstream atmospheric blocking. Weather, 72(10), 297-301, doi:10.1002/wea.3020.

Demirtaş, M. (2017): High Impact Heat Waves over the Euro-Mediterranean Region and Turkey – in Concert with Atmospheric Blocking and Large Dynamical and Physical Anomalies. Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology A- Applied Sciences and Engineering, 18(1), 97 – 114.

Barker, D. X.-Y. Huang, Z. Liu, T. Auligné, X. Zhang, S. Rugg, R. Ajjaji, A. Bourgeois, J. Bray, Y. Chen, M. Demirtas, Y.-R. Guo, T. Henderson, W. Huang, H.-C. Lin, J. Michalakes, S.Rizvi, and X. Zhang (2012): The Weather Research and Forecasting Model’s Community Variational/Ensemble Data Assimilation System: WRFDA. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 831–843.

Bernardet, L., L. Nance, M. Demirtas, S. Koch, E. Szoke, T. Folwer, A. Lought, J. L. Mahoney, H.-Y. Chuang, M. Pyle, and R. Gall, 2008: The Developmental Testbed Center and its Winter Forecasting Experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 611-627.

V. Kotroni, K. Lagouvardos, and E. Defer, S. Dietrich, F. Porcù, C. M. Medaglia, M. Demirtas, (2006): The Antalya 5 December 2002 Storm: Observations and Model Analysis, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 445, 576–590