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Buys Ballot's Law [baɪs bəˈlɒts bɔɪs]

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a law stating that if an observer stands with his back to the wind in the N hemisphere, atmospheric pressure is lower on his left, and vice versa in the S hemisphere

[named after C. H. D. Buys Ballot (1817-90), Dutch meteorologist]

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