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Fig. 2

From: Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA

Fig. 2

Composite 1000-hPa geopotential height maps, by circulation type. In these kinds of maps, air flows clockwise and approximately parallel but slightly outward from the highest values, and counter-clockwise and approximately parallel but slightly inward into the lowest values (in the Northern Hemisphere); higher values are always to the right side of the flow, with the distance between adjacent isohypses approximately proportional to wind speed [modified from Cao et al. (2021)]. H and L indicate high and low pressure centers, respectively. See the “Methods” section for thorough descriptions of wind and weather movement

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