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MAY I be allowed to suggest that the region of an anticyclone finds its most likely interpretation as an area hemmed in by cyclone systems. I agree with Mr. Dines (NATURE, December 23, vol. 110, p. 845) that it is the mass of air over the area that is important. It is a matter of personal observation that, as Mr. Dines says, “the steady and persistently high barometric pressure that has prevailed over southern England during most of the autumn” has been associated with the overlapping high overhead here of the margins of cyclone systems that were simultaneously from west to eastwards on our north and on our south respectively. The phenomenon of contrary currents at high elevation is an inseparable feature, in my experience, of anticyclonic conditions.
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STEVENS, C. The Cause of Anticyclones. Nature 111, 150 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111150c0
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