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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