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Definition of Anticyclones
1. anticyclone [n] - See also: anticyclone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticyclones
Literary usage of Anticyclones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"anticyclones as Aids to Long Distance Forecasts. ... Within the belt the permanent
anticyclones, whose headquarters in summer are over the Atlantic on the ..."
2. Elementary Meteorology by William Morris Davis (1894)
"As the crowding of the upper currents appears to be the more effective of the
two processes here concerned, the anticyclones would, according to this ..."
3. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1919)
"Origin of the cyclones and anticyclones of intermediate latitudes. No satisfactory
explanation of cyclones and anticyclones, susceptible of simple statement ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"The usual depression of temperature, characteristic of winter anticyclones, was
limited to the, lower layers of air, next to the earth's surface, ..."
5. Modern Geography for High Schools by Rollin D. Salisbury, Harlan Harland Barrows, Walter Sheldon Tower (1913)
"Cyclones and anticyclones Characteristics of highs and lows. ... Winds from
anticyclones generally bring clear weather, but cold air moving down and out ..."
6. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"To explain the reason of this, we must now show the relation of the upper to the
lower currents in cyclones and anticyclones. Our knowledge of the upper ..."
7. Elementary Meteorology for High Schools and Colleges by Frank Waldo (1896)
"The study of air densities in connection with cyclones and anticyclones has ...
anticyclones. Classes of anticyclones.—There are several classes of areas of ..."