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(meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center

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The gigantic structure, with a diameter slightly larger than Earth's, is a high-pressure wind system called an anticyclone that has been slowly downsizing since the 1800s.
The intensified anticyclone leads to strengthened easterly winds into northern Japan (Fig.
The relationship between the Asia summer monsoon and the structure of the Asian subtropical anticyclone has been widely discussed [41-43].
The composite SLP map sequence (Figure 5(b)) reveals an anticyclone moving eastward along 40[degrees] S, reaching 20[degrees]E on day-0 and 33[degrees]E on day+1, while a coastal low event shifts from 28[degrees]S to 32[degrees]S.
Lower DO levels were observed within anticyclones, fronts, and the open ocean (6.8 mg/L, 6.6 mg/L, and 6.7 mg/L, respectively) compared to those within cyclonic features (7.2 mg/L) (Table 1).
Tom Anderson's travel writing blended fact with fiction following the paths of rolling anticyclones during America's hurricane season.
both are immense high-pressure systems, or anticyclones. (There's telescopic evidence that the GRS has persisted for nearly 350 years.) The two spots have passed each other before--most recently in 2002 and 2004--but the 2006 encounter was the first since the smaller spot intensified and turned red.
"September is often drier than any of the summer months, in fact, there is often a period of settled weather as anticyclones keep the unsettled low pressure systems at bay.
They describe the energy cycle, temperature, water in the atmosphere, global-scale winds, atmospheric-ocean interactions, air masses and fronts, extratropical cyclones and anticyclones, thunderstorms and tornadoes, small-scale winds, weather forecasting, past and present climates, and human influences on climate.
Particularly, during summer, anticyclones (high pressure areas) when the easterly breezes which brings sea-fog to resorts like Scarborough, are actually as warm and dry as continental wind flows by the time they reach here.
Differences in temperatures on land and sea at the coast on warm, sunny days lead to sea breezes but winds also blow out from high-pressure regions or anticyclones, and into low-pressure regions or depressions.
The giant storms, or anticyclones, known as BC and DE, had persisted for 58 years at a latitude of 33 [degrees] S.
Of the nine cyclones on the Jovian north pole, one is in the center, and eight other cyclones and anticyclones surround the central one.