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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...
- thence to space. The large-scale atmospheric circulation "cells" shift polewards in warmer periods (for example, interglacials compared to glacials), but...
- forcing generates atmospheric Rossby waves that have a poleward and eastward migration. Poleward-propagating Rossby waves explain many of the observed...
- velocity will change their meridional propagation speed, directing them more polewards or more equatorwards. Chunchuzov, Igor P. (July 1, 1996). "The Spectrum...
- Ordovician. However, research shows that in order for glaciation to occur, poleward heat transport had to be lower, which creates a discrepancy in what is...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- the highlands of the Southern Hemisphere and face the Equator; all are poleward of 30° latitude. A number of authors have suggested that their formation...
- vertebrate species, highest concentration of diversity shown in red in equatorial regions, declining polewards (towards the blue end of the spectrum)...