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ANTARCTIC FRONT
The discontinuous zone along which contact is made between the cold and dense Antarctic air mass derived from the region’s anticyclone and the less cold subantarctic air from further north. It is the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the arctic front.
[See alsoantarctic convergence]
Sunderland University
10.4135/9781446247501.n198
, and (2005) Location of the Antarctic Polar Front from AMSR-E satellite sea surface temperature measurements. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 36: 2075–2089.
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