How are heat waves related to the anticyclonic flow in the atmosphere?

01 January 2014 1 187 Report

As it is described more often that the anticyclonic flow produces the subsidence, clear skies and warm-air advection etc.

Duncan Ackerley

Here's some interesting recent work in Australia that discusses this:

The influence of tropical cyclones on heat waves in Southeastern Australia

Teresa J. Parker, Gareth J. Berry, Michael J. Reeder

Geophysical Research Letters 12/2013; 40(23). DOI:10.1002/2013GL058257

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