polarward

English

Etymology

From polar +‎ -ward.

Adjective

polarward (comparative more polarward, superlative most polarward)

1. 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)

1. 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.