Weather Systems (Subscribe)
Links
Weather Facts: Anticyclone popular
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wxfacts/Anticyclone.htm
Brief description of these regions of high atmospheric pressure relative to the surrounding air.
Weather and Weather Phenomenon popular
http://library.thinkquest.org/18424/
Project designed by students for students and explaining air pressure, weather patterns, winds and other weather phenomena.
NWS JetStream: Air Masses popular
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/synoptic/airmass.htm
Explains how air masses form, the principle classifications that influence the continental United States, and the formation of fronts between them.
Fronts, Depressions and Anticyclones popular
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A34944582
Article describing and explaining these atmospheric features and the kinds of weather associated with them.
Cyclone popular
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone
Article from Wikipedia on these low pressure weather systems with inward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
BBC Weather Basics: Low Pressure popular
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/basics_lowpressure.shtml
Provides an explanation of why areas of low pressure are associated with wet weather and how these areas form.
BBC Weather Basics: High Pressure popular
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/basics_highpressure.shtml
Describes high pressure areas, the winds associated with them and the typical weather patterns they bring at different times of year.
BBC Weather Basics: Fronts popular
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/basics_fronts.shtml
Provides a brief description of the movement of air masses at different temperatures, and the cold and warm fronts that form between them.
Anticyclone popular
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticyclone
Article from Wikipedia on these weather systems with winds circling a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Synoptic Charts and Weather Systems
http://library.thinkquest.org/15525/charts.html
Student project describing depressions and tropical cyclones.