ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100 - Lecture 3

MIDLATITUDE WEATHER SYSTEMS
PART III: ANTICYCLONES

Fall 1997

Lecture #29 Scheduled for:

10 NOV 1997 (M)

Recommended Readings from Moran and Morgan (1997):

pages 277-279; 283.

Objectives:

• To summarize anticyclonic weather.
• To compare and contrast the distinguishing weather features of cyclones and anticyclones.
• To identify those potentially disastrous weather events associated with anticyclones.

Outline:

A. INTRODUCTION

B. MIGRATORY MID LATITUDE ANTICYCLONES

• Characteristics of Migratory Anticyclones
• Comparison with Migratory Mid-Latitude Cyclones
• Importance of Anticyclones
• "Hazardous" Anticyclones
  • Cold Waves
  • Heat Waves
  • Droughts
  • Air Pollution Episodes

Last revision 5 December 1997

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