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The atmosphere has boundaries between warm and cold air called fronts. The oceans have fronts, too, where currents with different temperatures and salinities collide. You can sometimes see the outline of a front by the material that tends to accumulate along it. (David Fratantoni, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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