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In the past two decades, with the advancements in satellite remote-sensing technology, the study of the spatio-temporal variability of the Southern Ocean front has become a new hot topic. Nevertheless, the southwestern Atlantic, as an important part of the Southern Ocean, is poorly studied in this regard. Based on the 16-year (2004\u20132019) high-resolution satellite observations of sea surface temperature (SST) and 13-year (2007\u20132019) observations of chlorophyll (CHL), this study detected and analyzed the position and seasonal variation of the SOF in the southwestern Atlantic using a gradient-based frontal detection method. According to the experimental results, the thermal front (derived from the SST data) disappeared in winter due to the spatially uniform surface cooling, whereas the ocean color front (derived from the CHL data) existed without remarkable spatio-temporal changes. Furthermore, the exact position and seasonal variation of the SOF in the southwestern Atlantic are determined by comparing the paths of the two fronts. Since the formation of the Kuroshio front in the East China Sea (ECS) is similar to the SOF in the southwestern Atlantic, the seasonal distributions of the two fronts were compared. Apart from that, the Kuroshio thermal fronts were mostly distributed in winter and less in summer, while the Southern Ocean thermal fronts showed the opposite. 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