anticyclonic


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an·ti·cy·clone

 (ăn′tē-sī′klōn′, ăn′tī-)
n.
An extensive system of winds spiraling outward from a high-pressure center, circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

an′ti·cy·clon′ic (-klŏn′ĭk) adj.
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Adj.1.anticyclonic - of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure centeranticyclonic - of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center
meteorology - the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)
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Translations

anticyclonic

[ˌæntɪsaɪˈklɒnɪk] ADJanticiclónico, anticiclonal
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anticyclonic

[ˌæntɪsaɪˈklɒnɪk] adjanticiclonico/a
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Occurrence of a subsurface anticyclonic eddy, fronts, and Trichodesmium spp.
And of course there is the Great Red Spot, a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm, the largest in the Solar System, 22 degrees south of the planet's equator.
It has a paler color than the Great Red Spot after it got caught up in the larger storm's anticyclonic spin. 
These left-split storms can be prolific hail producers, and in the rare event it drops a tornado, it would be anticyclonic. Again, due to supercell dynamics, clockwise-spinning updrafts are seldom sustainable.
Under the glorious anticyclonic High Pressure weather which sat over the UK from around May 1st to July 31st, there was regularly even less wind.
Anticyclonic conditions are bringing an area of high pressure in over Ireland and forecasters are predicting warm, dry conditions for this weekend and next week.
During the transition period (May-June 2008) a greater mesoescale activity was observed, with two large anticyclonic eddies offshore (beyond 200 km) (Fig.
The GRS itself--an enormous, highpressure (anticyclonic) "storm" rotating every 6 days--has undergone a modest metamorphosis of late.
Additionally, according to observations by a mobile Doppler on Wheels (DOW; [61]), a total of eight tornadoes (or tornado-like vortices), including one that lasted 24 minutes and two anticyclonic tornadoes, were observed during the 90minute period of interest in this study (Figure 1).
It works like this: During some multiyear periods, the Arctic is cold and dry and dominated by high atmospheric pressure that sets in motion strong anticyclonic (clockwise) winds over the Beaufort Gyre region.