Frontal system
From Glossary of Meteorology
frontal system
Simply, a system of fronts as they appear on a synoptic chart.
This is used for 1) a continuous front and its characteristics along its entire extent, including its warm, cold, stationary, and occluded sectors, its variations of intensity, and any frontal cyclones along it; and 2) the orientation and nature of the fronts within the circulation of a frontal cyclone.
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