anticyclonic shear

anticyclonic shear

[¦an·tē‚sī¦klän·ik ′shēr]
(meteorology)
Horizontal wind shear of such a nature that it tends to produce anticyclonic rotation of the individual air particles along the line of flow.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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