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    Met 01 - Semi Final Assignment No. 2

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    An anticyclone is a region of high atmospheric pressure characterized by concentric isobars. They are associated with settled weather like clear skies. Winds circulate clockwise around the high pressure center in the Northern Hemisphere and anticlockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Anticyclones bring fine weather in summer and cold, dry, or foggy weather in winter. Synoptic charts represent weather data like temperature, pressure, wind and clouds using standardized symbols plotted around station points. Ridges are elongated high pressure areas that bring similar weather to anticyclones. Cols are slack pressure areas between converging highs and lows.

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    An anticyclone is a region of high atmospheric pressure characterized by concentric isobars. They are associated with settled weather like clear skies. Winds circulate clockwise around the high pressure center in the Northern Hemisphere and anticlockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Anticyclones bring fine weather in summer and cold, dry, or foggy weather in winter. Synoptic charts represent weather data like temperature, pressure, wind and clouds using standardized symbols plotted around station points. Ridges are elongated high pressure areas that bring similar weather to anticyclones. Cols are slack pressure areas between converging highs and lows.

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    An anticyclone is a region of high atmospheric pressure characterized by concentric isobars. They are associated with settled weather like clear skies. Winds circulate clockwise around the high pressure center in the Northern Hemisphere and anticlockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Anticyclones bring fine weather in summer and cold, dry, or foggy weather in winter. Synoptic charts represent weather data like temperature, pressure, wind and clouds using standardized symbols plotted around station points. Ridges are elongated high pressure areas that bring similar weather to anticyclones. Cols are slack pressure areas between converging highs and lows.

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    Met 01 - Semi Final Assignment No. 2

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    An anticyclone is a region of high atmospheric pressure characterized by concentric isobars. They are associated with settled weather like clear skies. Winds circulate clockwise around the high pressure center in the Northern Hemisphere and anticlockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Anticyclones bring fine weather in summer and cold, dry, or foggy weather in winter. Synoptic charts represent weather data like temperature, pressure, wind and clouds using standardized symbols plotted around station points. Ridges are elongated high pressure areas that bring similar weather to anticyclones. Cols are slack pressure areas between converging highs and lows.

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    ASSIGNMENT NO.

    2
    Describe an anticyclone with a synoptic pattern for both Northern and
    southern hemispheres, showing isobar weather symbols and wind circulation.

    An anticyclone is a region of high atmospheric pressure relative to the


    surrounding air, generally thousands of kilometres in diameter and also known as
    a high or high-pressure system. Anticyclones appear on weather charts as a series
    of concentric, widely spaced isobars of 1000 mbs and above. The roughly circular
    closed isobar at its central region indicates the area of highest pressure.

    The centre of an anticyclone has a


    characteristic pattern of air circulation, with
    subsiding air and horizontal divergence of the
    air near the surface. The name anticyclone
    comes from the circulatory flow of air within
    the system; anticyclonic circulation has a local
    circulation that is opposed to the Earth's
    rotation. Winds, generally light, circulate
    around the high pressure centre in a clockwise
    direction in the Northern Hemisphere and
    anticlockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

    The subsiding air compresses as it descends,


    causing adiabatic warming. The eventually warmer and
    drier air suppresses cloud formation and thus
    anticyclones are usually associated with fine weather in
    the summer and dry, cold, and sometimes foggy weather
    in the winter. Calm settled weather is usually
    synonymous with anticyclones in temperate latitudes.
    Anticyclones are typically relatively slow moving
    features.

    However, mid-latitude anticyclones can be divided into warm and cold


    anticyclones (continental highs). Subtropical anticyclones are usually warm and
    quasi permanent features of the Earth's general circulation (e.g. the Azores high).
    In mid-latitudes anticyclones are often located beneath the leading edge of ridges
    in the upper-air westerlies, where they may be associated with blocking weather
    patterns.

    Determine the weather associated with anticyclones as identified on a surface


    synoptic or prognostic.

    The first stage in preparing a synoptic chart is to chart the position of each
    meteorological station. These are marked by a small circle. The weather report for
    each station is then plotted in and around the circle. Elements like temperature and
    pressure are entered as plain figures. Others, like the occurrence of rain, snow,
    cloud and fog are plotted as internationally agreed symbols (see Figure 8.1). For
    example cloud cover at a particular time is indicated by filling in certain portions
    of the circle. The greater the fill, the more the cloud cover, measured in eighths or
    oktas. Wind direction is represented by an arrow pointing in the direction from
    where the wind is coming. In Figure 8.1, the wind is from the northeast. The wind
    speed is denoted by "feathers" on the wind arrow, a short feather indicating 5
    knots, a larger one 10 knots, a long and short one 15 knots and so on.

    Figure 8.1. Meteorological symbols

    Temperature is measured in degrees Celsius to the nearest whole degree.


    Pressure at a station is standardized to sea-level pressure measured in millibars.
    The hundreds figure for the pressure is omitted as being understood since the
    pressure is almost always between 950 and 1050 millibars. For example, a pressure
    of 987.8 millibars would be written as 878; 1014.3 millibars as 143. In Figure 8.1
    the pressure is 1010.5 millibars.

    Differentiate ridges and cols or voids between the convergence of pressure


    system On a surface synoptic or prognostic chart.

    Ridges
    Ridges are elongated extensions of areas of
    high pressure. They bring similar weather to that
    associated with anticyclones.

    Col
    A col can be identified as an area of
    slack pressure between two anticyclones and
    two depressions.

    Draw a synoptic pattern for a ridge, col to a


    void between a convergence of pressure Systems, showing isobars and wind
    directions.

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