the process that tends to destroy a weather front, as by mixture of the frontal air
Origin of frontolysis
Modern Latin from fronto- + -lysisfrontolysis
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frontolysis
noun
pl. fron·tol·y·ses,Dissipation of a meteorological front.
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The weakening or complete dissipation of a meteorological front caused by a decrease in the horizontal thermal gradient (the difference in temperature of adjacent air masses) over time.
Compare frontogenesis
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Noun
(plural frontolyses)
- (meteorology) the degeneration or dissipation of an atmospheric weather front.
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