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anticyclone
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...suggests, an anticyclone is the opposite...s surface, anticyclones have higher than...where a belt of anticyclones girdles the world...manifestation of an anticyclone is a lack of cloud. Most anticyclones are very large...
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Cyclone and Anticyclone
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...When a cyclone or anticyclone is associated with...latitude cyclone or anticyclone. Vertical air movements...both cyclones and anticyclones. In the former case...upper region of the anticyclone. Distinctive weather...both cyclones and anticyclones. Cyclones and low...
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atmospheric high pressure
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...pressure systems Anticyclones may be categorized...cold’ anticyclones. Warm highs result...examples of this type of anticyclone, the Azores high...persistent winter Siberian anticyclone which dominates the...of 1060 mb. Cold anticyclones or ridges of high...
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middle-latitude tropospheric circulations
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...quickly and move quickly. Anticyclones (high-pressure systems...pressure systems (anticyclones) form between depressions...more significant type of anticyclone is a ‘blocking’ anticyclone, which develops in one...
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Disasters
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...damaging tidal waves. Cyclones and anticyclones. Cyclones are large, swirling windstorms...present outside the weather system. Anticyclones have the opposite trait in that the...clockwise in the southern hemisphere and anticyclones doing the opposite. When these storms...
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vorticity
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...In both hemispheres cyclones have positive vorticity while anticyclones have negative vorticity. Relative vorticity is vorticity...to as absolute vorticity . The vorticity of cyclones and anticyclones is similar in magnitude to that of the Earth. The vorticity...
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eddy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...geological oceanography ), and are equivalent to cyclones and anticyclones in the atmosphere. In the northern hemisphere those that...Conversely those that spiral clockwise are analogous to anticyclones and have higher sea levels and warm water in their cores...
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Isobars
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...counterclockwise in its center in the Northern Hemisphere. An anticyclone is an area of curved isobars surrounding a high-pressure...area, and the wind blows clockwise in the center of an anticyclone in the Northern Hemisphere. Open isobars forming a...
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Jupiter
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...atmosphere prouduces spots, streaks, and bands. Eddies give rise to the spots, which are cyclones or (like the GRS) anticyclones. Hydrogen accounts for nearly 90% of Jupiter's atmosphere and helium for most of the rest. The pressure at the cloud...
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Walker circulation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...altitudes up to 16 km and then moves poleward towards both the north and south, gradually descending in the subtropical anticyclone belts around 30° north and south. If water in the west of the tropical Pacific is warmer than that in the eastern...
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