GEO E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Anticyclone, Cool Air
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It"s a low pressure system characterised by low pressure at the centre and increases outwards. Starts in areas where air ascends from the ground to the atmosphere and descends at high altitude. Tropical cyclones e. g. hurricane, typhoon and willy willies and depressions which are characterised by temperate latitudes. The movement of wind is anticlockwise in the n. hemisphere and clockwise in the s. hemisphere: anticyclone. A high pressure system characterised by high pressure at the centre and decreases outwards. It starts in areas where air is descending from the atmosphere onto the ground and then blows outwards on the ground. The movement of wind is clockwise in the n. hemisphere and anticlockwise in the s. hemisphere. Which occur regularly for a short period of time affecting a limited area. Modify the weather of the area they blow to: sea breeze. A light and gentle wind which blows from the sea to the adjacent land.
