semipermanent anticyclone

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• Anticyclone — In meteorology, an anticyclone (that is, opposite to a cyclone) is a weather phenomenon in which there is a descending movement of the air and a high pressure area over the part of the planet s surface affected by it. Anticyclonic flow spirals in …   Wikipedia

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• subtropical high — Meteorol. one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Cf. high (def. 41). * * * ▪ meteorology       one of several regions of… …   Universalium