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Low-pressure area

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Result: Renominated at GAN. Geometry guy 21:22, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This reassessment is being instigated by the main editor of the article. In November, this article was failed based upon a previous reassessment, without the reviewer being clear as to how the article was jargony/too technical, so I'm starting a new reassessment to get clearer guidance. Thegreatdr (talk) 13:53, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article fails Criterion 4: free from bias. It does not provide a sufficiently balanced geographical perspective.

It does not provide the same level of coverage to the southern-hemisphere viewpoint as it does to the northern hemisphere. In particular, there is a clear diagram showing the circulation of winds around a low-pressure system in the northern hemisphere, but no equivalent diagram has been provided for the southern hemisphere. To be balanced, the article needs an equivalent diagram to be created for the southern hemisphere.
The Climatology section of the article describes a "large polar cyclone" in the Arctic, but does not mention the behaviour of similar climate systems in the Antarctic. Does a polar cyclone even exist in the Antarctic? Reading the article, one cannot determine this. Some more coverage of the southern hemisphere is clearly needed here. It may also be useful to mention the interaction of Antarctic low pressure systems (assuming they exist; the article does not say) with the climate of the Southern Ocean. Just because such climate systems cross vast expanses of water and not land is no reason not to mention them.
- The previous two issues should be resolved now. I included an image of the location of the monsoon trough in the Austral summer, to counterbalance the northern hemisphere low pressure area example. The Hadley cell diagram at the top of the page shows the circulation of low pressure areas in both hemispheres already. New wording has been added to indicate that both hemispheres have a polar low. Thegreatdr (talk) 13:49, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Low pressure systems also occur in more tropical latitudes. These may often be standing areas of low pressure and can give rise to tropical storms and cyclones. However, the article does not provide sufficient coverage of this (limited to a few sentences), but instead focuses on low pressure systems at temperate latitudes. The article needs a short separate paragraph or section devoted to tropical low pressure systems, perhaps with a link to another article that covers this in more depth such as the Monsoon trough article or some other similar article. -- B.D.Mills (T, C) 04:08, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The climatology section now has sections for the monsoon trough and tropical cyclones. Added more about the monsoon trough location, per your comments about imbalance. Added more about tropical cyclones in general, and how the monsoon is driven by the thermal low circulation, which had led to a doubling of the article's size. Hopefully this fixes the imbalance you mentioned earlier and improves the quality of the article. Thegreatdr (talk) 18:42, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Commment. Further guidance is unlikely to be forthcoming here, so I suggest renominating the article at GAN. Geometry guy 22:24, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]