polarward
English
Etymology
polar + -ward
Adjective
polarward (comparative more polarward, superlative most polarward)
- In the direction of the North Pole or the South Pole; away from the equator.
- 1962, D. J. Bargman, Tropical Meteorology in Africa:
- On the polarward side of the trough, the disturbance appears as the wave in the Easterlies described by Riehl [9].
- 1990, Current Research, page 285:
- In general, the polarward flow is strongest as a result of western intensification (Stommel, 1948; Munk and Carrier, 1950).
- 2002, Christopher T. Russell, S. Savin, Dynamic Processes in the Critical Magnetospheric Regions and Radiation Belt Models, page 2719:
- 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.
Adverb
polarward (comparative more polarward, superlative most polarward)
- Toward the North Pole or the South Pole; away from the equator.
- 1891, Matthew Fontaine Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology, page 86:
- 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.
- 1942, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science - Volume 51, page 27:
- Continued low temperatures soon left little moisture in the air with the result that sublimation is today moving glaciers polarward all over the world.
- 1982, Seymour Oscar Schlanger, Maria Bianca Cita, Nature and Origin of Cretaceous Carbon-Rich Facies, page 214:
- SMW would be formed at the salinity maximum spreading both polarward and equatorward.