ipis.] 



IN AIR CIRCULATION OF THE GLOBE. 



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Mawson's demonstration through wireless communications that the 

 hurricanes of Adelie Land preceded by some 48 hours the arrival 

 of storms at the Australian south coast, would seem to support 

 strongly this view (Fig. 10).^^ 



Fig. 10. Map to illustrate the prevailing atmospheric conditions to the 

 southward of Australia (compiled from maps by Lockyer and Mawson). 



The Role of the Glacial Anticyclones in the General Air Circu- 

 lation to Draw Down the Air of the Upper Stratum in the Tropo- 

 sphere and to Direct it Equatorward. — From these geographical 

 relationships it appears highly probable that the glacial anticyclones 

 above the inland-ice masses stand in a definite conjugate relation- 

 ship to stationary cyclones above embayments of the continent. 



81 Cf., also, " The Home of the Blizzard," Vol. 2, fig. opp. p. 141. 



