General Navigation USCG Question #1345 (Set 42)

The wind circulation around a high pressure center in the Northern Hemisphere is __________.

Official USCG Answer & Rule Citation

Correct Answer: Option D — clockwise and moving outward from the high

Per Buys Ballot's law and Bowditch principles, surface winds in the Northern Hemisphere flow clockwise and outward due to pressure gradient force and Coriolis deflection around anticyclones.

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