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Definition of Polewards

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

Meaning of Polewards from wikipedia

- which waves grow; the growth of these waves transfers heat and momentum polewards. Atmospheric eddies extract westerly angular momentum from the Hadley...
- 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...
- thence to space. The large-scale atmospheric circulation "cells" shift polewards in warmer periods (for example, interglacials compared to glacials), but...
- an ocean. These western ocean currents transport warm, tropical water polewards toward the polar regions. Ships crossing both oceans have taken advantage...
- mid-season when the intertropical convergence zone or monsoon trough moves poleward of their location during the middle of the warm season; Typical vegetation...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- vorticity caused by the poleward-moving winds on the subtropical ridge's western periphery and the increased relative vorticity of poleward moving water, transport...