Anticyclone
In meteorology, an anticyclone (that is, opposite to a cyclone) is a weather event where there is a downward movement of air and a high pressure area over the part of the planet's surface affected by it. It usually indicates clear skies. It has steady and calm wind moving away from its eye (cyclone).
Anticyclone Media
An anticyclone just below Southern Australia near Tasmania.
Hadley cell circulation tends to create anticyclonic patterns in the Horse latitudes, depositing drier air and contributing to the world's great deserts.
The subtropical ridge shows up as a large area of black (dryness) on this water vapor satellite image from September 2000.
Golden Gate Bridge in fog
Mean July subtropical ridge position in North America
A surface weather analysis for the United States on October 21, 2006
Other websites
- Intertropical Convergence Zone photo Archived 2004-10-31 at the Wayback Machine - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
