Atmospheric circulation during heat waves in Eastern Europe
Journal: Geografie
Year: 2017

This article aims to describe heat waves in Eastern Europe and to determine the synoptic situations which cause them. In this article, a hot day is defined as the one with a maximum temperature above the 95th percentile of all the values in the analysed period, and a heat wave is considered as a sequence of at least 5 such days. In the analysed period and within the investigated area, from 24 (Kaliningrad) to 55 (Kharkiv) heat waves were observed. The longest heat wave was recorded in Moscow in