Local front - Local front

Japanese: 局地前線 - きょくちぜんせん
Local front - Local front

...Along with this, a partial low-level jet stream appears at an altitude of about 3 km. Small-scale local fronts, called stationary fronts, belong to the category of stationary fronts. Many of these are just named fronts for convenience, such as the boundary between a stationary vortex or countercurrent that forms on the lee side of a mountain range and the air current that has gone around the edge of the mountain range (the Boso front), or the boundary between cold air that has cooled inland at night and the air current over the sea (the Hokuriku front), and cannot be treated the same as the large-scale fronts mentioned above.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "local fronts" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これに伴い3kmくらいの高さに部分的な下層ジェット気流が現れる。 規模の小さな局地前線と呼ばれるものは停滞前線に属する。これには,山脈の風下にできる停滞性の渦流または反流と山塊の縁を回った気流との境界(房総前線),あるいは夜間に内陸の冷却でできた冷気と海上の気流との境界(北陸前線)を便宜的に前線と名づけたものが多く,これまで述べた大規模な前線と同一に取り扱えない。…

※「局地前線」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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