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anticyclone
- Sinônimos
- high
- high pressure area
- Definição2
- Region of the atmosphere where the pressures are high relative to those in the surrounding region at the same level. It is represented on a synoptic chart by a system of isobars at a specific level, or of contours at a specific pressure, which enclose relatively high values of pressure or contour height.
- Fonte2
- WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. International meteorological vocabulary. 2nd ed. Geneva, 1992. (WMO, n.182). Disponível em: < https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=220#.XeauGOhKiUk >. Acesso em: 18 fev. 2020.
- Fonte3
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Circular 232: aircraft accident digest n.32 1985. Montreal, 1993. (Cir. 232-AN/139)
- Nota adicional1
- With respect to the relative direction of its rotation, it is the opposite of a cyclone. Because anticyclonic circulation and relative high atmospheric pressure usually coexist, the terms anticyclone and high are used interchangeably in common practice.
- Contexto
- Over Europe there was a powerful anticyclone of 1.041 mb producing a wind from the first quadrant at all levels towards the Cantaban Mountain Range, generating stationary clouds over the coast.
- Subárea1
- Aeronautical Meteorology
- Related Term
- cyclone
- synoptic chart
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