antarctic front

antarctic front

[‚ant′ärd·ik ′frənt]

(meteorology)

The semipermanent, semicontinuous front between the antarctic air of the Antarctic continent and the polar air of the southern oceans; generally comparable to the arctic front of the Northern Hemisphere.

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