Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Toward a pole of the earth.
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- adjective Towards a
pole - adverb Towards a pole
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Examples
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Two hundred and twenty-three tracks wide, slowly migrating polewards to more oil and frozen fresh water.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Potentilla, why are deserts expanding and growing zones emigrating polewards? as something or other must be causing these recorded phenomena.
After a wasted year, climate change must once again be our priority | Robin McKie 2010
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When Australia was still attached to Antarctica, warm equatorial currents reaching polewards ensured an equable wet and warm climate.
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Yes, the storms move polewards, but on a scale of days/weeks, while the upwards movement and its radiation to space/falling as rain take place on the scale of minutes or hours.
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The effect of warming if warming is deleterious to corals would be to have them migrate polewards.
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Water evaporates from the oceans, and subsequently as the air mass moves polewards, or to higher elevation it cools, condensing the vapour and leading to precipitation.
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It seems to be generally held that warm air is passing polewards from the equator continuously at the high levels.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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In a time of general warming, like the last 300 years, we would expect them to move slightly polewards.
Watts Up With That? Willis Eschenbach 2010
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Ecologists generally agree that trees and forests in the temperate zone will shift polewards in a warming world.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Csaba Mátyás 2010
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There may also be additive effects, i.e. natural variability imposed on polewards heat transfer and sea ice (the Artic Oscillation, say).
RealClimate 2009
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