Abstract
The GAC concept occupies an important place in modern meteorology, although there is no synonymous definition for it. Most often, GAC is understood to be a set of different synoptic situations which are constantly, or nearly constantly, found in the atmosphere (action centres, stream currents, monsoon circulation, intertropical convergence zone, etc.). In other cases, GAC is understood as an averaged-on-time state of the atmosphere in which the most essential peculiarities of a local character are preserved. The close relationship between both interpretations is evident and, quite often, the global condition (first of all the motion) of the atmosphere at a given instant is denoted by the term GAC. Finally, GAC is also understood to mean the combination of some large-scale statistical characteristics of the atmosphere.
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Panchev, S. (1985). The General Circulation of the Atmosphere. In: Dynamic Meteorology. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5221-8_11
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