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Polewards
Polewards Pole"wards, adv. Toward a pole of the earth. ``The regions further polewards.' --Whewell.

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- atmospheric circulation that features air rising near the equator, flowing poleward near the tropopause at a height of 12–15 km (7.5–9.3 mi) above the Earth's...
- Cascades and Andes Mountains, as the dry-summer climate extends further poleward in the Americas than elsewhere. Rare instances of this climate can be found...
- mid-season when the intertropical convergence zone or monsoon trough moves poleward of their location during the middle of the warm season; Typical vegetation...
- dry winds causing the dry season of summer, and oceanic climates to the poleward sides that are influenced by cool ocean currents and air m****es that bring...
- anticyclonic gyre poleward and eastward of the storm center. The combined flow of these gyres acts to advect the storm slowly poleward and westward. This...
- of Greenland's ice sheet is linked to polar amplification. Due to the poleward migration of the planet's isotherms (about 56 km (35 mi) per decade during...
- overrunning snow can result within the poleward side of the elongated precipitation band. In the Northern Hemisphere, poleward is towards the North Pole, or north...
- Australia, and parts of Central Asia. They tend to be found in proximity (both poleward and near the coast) of desert and semi-arid climates, and equatorward of...
- usually preceded by stratiform precipitation and fog. Warm fronts move poleward ahead of the cyclone path. Occluded fronts form late in the cyclone life...
- thence to space. The large-scale atmospheric circulation "cells" shift polewards in warmer periods (for example, interglacials compared to glacials), but...