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Anticyclonic Rotation


   Weather TermDescription / Definition
   Anticyclonic Rotation Rotation in the opposite sense as the Earth's rotation, i.e., clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere as would be seen from above. The opposite of cyclonic rotation.


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