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polarward en · ADJ

Etymology

From polar + -ward.

Meanings

  1. In the direction of the North Pole or the South Pole; away from the equator.
    • However, during low geomagnetic activity the distribution of latitudinally asymmetric events is close to Iijima and Potermra's Region 1 and 2 current picture: the equatorward events prevail in the morning and postmidnight sectors, and the polarward ones – in the evening and premidnight. 2002, Christopher T. Russell, S. Savin, Dynamic Processes in the Critical Magnetospheric Regions and Radiation Belt Models, page 2719:
    • In general, the polarward flow is strongest as a result of western intensification (Stommel, 1948; Munk and Carrier, 1950). 1990, Current Research, page 285:
    • On the polarward side of the trough, the disturbance appears as the wave in the Easterlies described by Riehl [9]. 1962, D. J. Bargman, Tropical Meteorology in Africa:

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polarward en · ADV

Etymology

From polar + -ward.

Meanings

  1. Toward the North Pole or the South Pole; away from the equator.
    • SMW would be formed at the salinity maximum spreading both polarward and equatorward. 1982, Seymour Oscar Schlanger, Maria Bianca Cita, Nature and Origin of Cretaceous Carbon-Rich Facies, page 214:
    • Continued low temperatures soon left little moisture in the air with the result that sublimation is today moving glaciers polarward all over the world. 1942, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science - Volume 51, page 27:
    • There is, therefere, a constant tendency with the air that these upper currents carry polarward to be crowded out, so to speak — to slough off and turn back. 1891, Matthew Fontaine Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology, page 86:

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