ATM OCN
(Meteorology)
100
MIDLATITUDE WEATHER SYSTEMS
PART III: ANTICYCLONES
Summer 2000
Lecture #21 Scheduled for:
24 JUL 2000 (M)
Recommended Readings from Moran and Morgan (1997):
pages 277-279; 283.
Today's Lecture Objectives:
To summarize anticyclonic weather.
To compare and contrast the distinguishing weather features of cyclones and anticyclones.
To identify those potentially hazardous weather events associated with anticyclones.
Outline:
Series continues from
Midlatitude Weather Systems: The Extratropical Cyclone
A. INTRODUCTION
B. MIGRATORY MIDLATITUDE ANTICYCLONES
Types of Anticyclones
Cold core
Warm core
Characteristics of Migratory Anticyclones
Comparison with Migratory Mid-Latitude Cyclones
Importance of Anticyclones
C. "HAZARDOUS" ANTICYCLONES
Cold Waves
Heat Waves
Droughts
Air Pollution Episodes
Series continues as
Midlatitude Weather Systems - Linking Surface and Upper Air
Last revision 6 June 2000
Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706
hopkins@meteor.wisc.edu
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