anticyclone
/an-tee-sahy-klohn, an-tahy-/US // ˌæn tiˈsaɪ kloʊn, ˌæn taɪ- //UK // (ˌæntɪˈsaɪkləʊn) //
反气旋,反气层,反旋风,反气圈
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Meteorology.
- : a circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Examples
Antonello Pasini, a climate change physicist at Italy’s National Council for Research, told The New York Times that anticyclones like Lucifer are more common now due to global warming.
Something of the laws of cyclone and anticyclone are known, and rude weather predictions across the Atlantic are roughly possible.
Owing to the presence of the anticyclone referred to above, the depression recurved off Hatteras.
In both cases the right-handed deflection results in a spiral whirl, inward in the cyclone, outward in the anticyclone.
A rising111 barometer, on the other hand, is usually an indication of the fine weather associated with an anticyclone.
During the year the anticyclone furnishes us with about sixty per cent.
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