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Definition of Antitrade wind
1. Noun. Winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antitrade Wind
Literary usage of Antitrade wind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eclectic Physical Geography by Russell Hinman (1916)
"36) to be two places 500 or more miles apart, but both lying in the antitrade
wind region of the northern hemisphere. Let the long arrow, represented as ..."
2. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"... abundant interzonal circulation which feeds and indefinitely maintains the
antitrade wind portion of the general or planetary atmospheric circulation. ..."
3. Geography Generalised; Or, An Introduction to the Study of Geography on the by Robert Sullivan, Samuel Haughton (1884)
"To the north and south of the NE and SE trade-wind zones there are two zones,
called the SW and NW antitrade-wind zones. They extend as far north and south ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1866)
"The next group is the great south and south-westerly current, or antitrade-wind,
the peculiar horary variations of which and periods of greatest motion have ..."
5. Lessons in Physical Geography by Charles Redway Dryer (1901)
"The regular southwest antitrade wind blows with considerable strength, bringing
a steady, moderately high pressure and clear, hot days. The nights are calm, ..."
6. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1866)
"The next group is the great south and south-westerly current, or antitrade-wind,
the peculiar horary variations of which and période of greatest motion have ..."
7. Weather Forecasting in the United States by United States Weather Bureau, Alfred Judson Henry, Edward Hall Bowie, Henry Joseph Cox, Harry Crawford Frankenfield (1916)
"... abundant interzonal circulation which feeds and indefinitely maintains the
antitrade wind portion of the general or planetary atmospheric circulation. ..."
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