antarctic anticyclone

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(Or antarctic high.) The glacial anticyclone that has been said to overlie the continent of Antarctica; analogous to the Greenland anticyclone.

Until the International Geophysical Year there had been insufficient observational evidence to either support or contradict this theory.
Court, A. 1951. Compendium of Meteorology. 918–922.


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.

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