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The gif linked above shows isosurfaces of the polar front, colored by wind speed.  The winds at the surface form many small fronts; the nonaxsymmetric fronts, similar to what we saw in our "reversed front" experiment.  The higher altitude winds , - the polar jet stream , - create a full cyclonic circulation with the rotation of the Earth.

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