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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tomczyk, Arkadiusz M.
• Sulikowska, Agnieszka

Titel

Heat waves in lowland Germany and their circulation-related conditions

Ist Teil von

• Meteorology and atmospheric physics, 2018-10, Vol.130 (5), p.499-515

Ort / Verlag

Vienna: Springer Vienna

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Springer Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The research study aimed at assessing multiannual variability of heat wave occurrence in the lowland part of Germany between 1966 and 2015 and determining the role of atmospheric circulation in their occurrence. The analysis was conducted with the use of two independent datasets, that is, the dataset of Germany’s National Meteorological Service, Deutscher Wetterdienst, and American meteorological reanalysis database of the National Centre for Environmental Prediction/National Centre for Atmospheric Research. This article defines a hot day as a day with maximum temperature of >30 °C, and a heat wave as a sequence of at least three such days. The observed warming translated into an increase in a number of hot days and, consequently, an increase in the frequency of heat wave occurrence. In the analysed 50-year period, the smallest number of heat waves was observed between 1976 and 1985, and the largest number between 2006 and 2015 in the lowland part of Germany. The occurrence of heat waves in lowland Germany was related to anticyclonic circulation.