Pacific high

Pacific high

(Or Pacific anticyclone.) The nearly permanent subtropical high of the North Pacific Ocean centered, in the mean, at 30°–40°N and 140°–150°W.

On mean charts of sea level pressure, this high is a principal center of action.

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An atmospheric anticyclonic circulation, a closed circulation. The wind in an anticyclone is in the clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.