Ogasawara High Pressure

Japanese: 小笠原高気圧 - おがさわらこうきあつ
Ogasawara High Pressure

It is one of the subtropical high pressure systems that appear near Japan. On the Far East weather chart, the Ogasawara Islands are often the center of the high pressure system, or the high pressure system extends in this direction, hence the name. However, looking at a wider weather chart, the Ogasawara High is part of the subtropical high pressure belt in the North Pacific that stretches east-west from the west coast of the United States toward the Philippines, and its center is not always near the Ogasawara Islands. Structurally, it is a tall warm high pressure system. It is dominant in the summer, and when it covers a wide area of ​​Honshu, it creates a so-called "whale tail" weather chart, which brings stable midsummer scorching heat and sometimes droughts. Along with the Okhotsk Sea High and the Siberian High, it is one of the pressure systems that characterize Japan's climate, so-called "centers of action" (pressure systems that control the weather over a wide area).

[Atsushi Kurashima]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

日本付近に現れる亜熱帯高気圧の一つ。極東天気図では小笠原諸島方面が高気圧の中心となったり、あるいは高気圧の張り出しがこの方向に伸びている形になるので、この名前がついた。しかし広い天気図をみると、小笠原高気圧は、アメリカ西岸からフィリピン方面に東西に伸びる北太平洋の亜熱帯高圧帯の一部であり、中心がいつも小笠原諸島近傍にあるとは限らない。構造的には背の高い温暖高気圧である。夏季に優勢で、本州を広く覆うと、いわゆる「鯨の尾型(くじらのおがた)」の天気図になり、盛夏の炎天が安定し、ときには干魃(かんばつ)になる。オホーツク海高気圧、シベリア高気圧とともに、日本の気候の特徴を形成する気圧系、いわゆる「作用中心」(広地域の天候を支配する気圧系)の一つである。

[倉嶋 厚]

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