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IN his letter entitled “The Mechanics of the Glacial Anticyclone Illustrated, by Experiment” published in NATURE for July 22, Prof. Hobbs remarks: “In all my writings upon the glacial anticyclone I have been at much pains to explain that the domed surface of the ice is essential to the development both of the anticyclone and of the alternating calms and blizzards which record its strophic action.” As, however, one goes on to read the letter one finds that Prof. Hobbs's explanation demands another “essential,” namely, that the domed surface must be cooler than the air in contact with it. Remove this defect of temperature, and the mechanism ceases to act; reverse it, and the mechanism works in the reverse direction, producing a cyclone instead of an anticyclone.
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SIMPSON, G. The Antarctic Anticyclone. Nature 105, 777 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105777b0
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