Talk:Anticyclone
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The following statement is false:
- An anticyclone in the southern hemisphere is associated with atmospheric low pressure.
kiwiinapanic 03:11, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)
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It is worth it to save the 500Mb chart from NOAA because of the unusual anticyclone located at 48N and 120W on February 24, 2005 at 0000Z. A similar anticyclone is located close to Greenland and Eastern Canada at this time. They seem to be associated with the maritime storms which are strong at this time of the year.
It is unlikely that a similar anticyclone will be created during the summertime. It seems to be an "hibernal" (wintertime) as well as a "maritime" (of the sea or ocean) anticyclone.
I have viewed many 500MB charts over the years, but had not seen this type of anticyclone in the past. I may have overlooked this type of anticyclone, of course.
A previously uncharted "Polar low" (cyclone) has been uncovered lately and photographed from space, so a third type of high-pressure cell may well exist, too. SIGNOFF AT 0840Z February 24, 2005.
March 1st, 2001
Storms at high latitudes contain rising air that produces a third type of anticyclone when the dry air descends and settles. The anticyclones appear over the sea at high latitudes. They are tall anticyclones. They may not move from the location where they first appear. At this time, one of these types of anticyclones is located at 60"N and 30"W. (17:27GMT)
(19:08 GMT)
Erasures of certain inappropriate materials were called for. (19:12 GMT)
[edit] possible meaning
The position of each anticyclone is at about the same place on the surface as it is far above the surface (huh?!)
Perhaps this sentence is saying that anticyclones are nearly vertical in orientation, that is their position high above the surface nearly perfectly dictates where they are located on the surface.
[edit] ongoing improvements
I've started working on this article, modelling a new structure from the extratropical cyclone article. While I realise that it isn't a perfect solution, it is merely intended as a means to delve in and start working on it in an attempt to make it easy to read and follow, and basic wikification, etc.
While it looks a little messy for the moment, it does appear at the moment to be quite a large task to restructure the information into a more meaningful and clarified format, source any existing statements (the article doesn't actually have ANY direct sources at this point, apart from a fleeting reference that there's some text in it from the 1911 Britannica somewhere. It also requires the creation of a new article - Anticyclogenesis - the opposite of it's sister article Cyclogenesis. All in good time I guess. Still, at least the table of contents looks reasonable now (even if it will need some changes) :) Crimsone 20:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge request
As far as I can tell, an anticyclone and a high pressure area are either the same thing by two different names, or they always co-occur? Unless someone can edit the intros to give an accurate description of the difference between the two, I think they should be merged. -- Beland 18:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
- I think I hate to say it, but he's probably right. While you could argue an anticyclone is a type of high pressure, there really is no practical difference that I can come up with.
You can say that nonbalanced high pressure isn't always rotating the same... but does that really change the nature of either article!?!?! You can't have counter-rotating high pressure like you can low pressure. As much as they are different teams, they are the same concept... JeopardyTempest 07:44, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
