toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole
adjective
2.
facing or moving toward the North or South Pole
Word origin
[1870–75; pole2 + -ward]This word is first recorded in the period 1870–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: asymmetric, billing, giveaway, immobilize, onshore-ward is a native English suffix denoting spatial or temporal direction, as specified bythe initial element. Other words that use the affix -ward include: afterward, backward, seaward, toward
Examples of 'poleward' in a sentence
poleward
Proper tension generated by poleward pulling of mitotic spindles signals biorientation of the underlying chromosome.
Xiexiong Deng, Min-Hao Kuo 2018, 'Tripartite Chromatin Localization of Budding Yeast Shugoshin Involves Higher-OrderedArchitecture of Mitotic Chromosomes', G3: Genes, Genomes, Geneticshttp://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.118.200522. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In summer, poleward propagation prevails, whereas in winter, disturbances primarily propagate southward.
Jiří Fišer, Jaroslav Chum, Jann-Yenq Liu 2017, 'Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances over Taiwan observed with HF Dopplersounding', Earth, Planets and Spacehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-017-0719-y. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Substantial intensifications of proton auroras occur after the poleward expansion of electron auroras.
Jun Liang, Eric Donovan, Deborah Gillies, Emma Spanswick, Martin Connors 2018, 'Proton auroras during the transitional stage of substorm onset', Earth, Planets and Spacehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-018-0899-0. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Instead, substorm onsets have been identified as localized sudden brightenings that expand immediately poleward.
Akimasa Ieda, Kirsti Kauristie, Yukitoshi Nishimura, Yukinaga Miyashita, Harald U.Frey, Liisa Juusola, Daniel Whiter, Masahito Nosé, Matthew O. Fillingim, Farideh Honary,Neil C. Rogers, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Tsubasa Miura, Takahiro Kawashima, Shinobu Machida 2018, 'Simultaneous observation of auroral substorm onset in Polar satellite global imagesand ground-based all-sky images', Earth, Planets and Spacehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-018-0843-3. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The active region was then observed to propagate tailward and poleward.
T. K. Yeoman, H. Lühr, R. W. H. Friedel, S. Coles, M. Grandé, C. H. Perry, M. Lester,P. N. Smith, H. J. Singer, D. Orr, 'CRRES/Ground-based multi-instrument observations of an interval of substorm activity',Annales Geophysicaehttp://www.ann-geophys.net/12/1158/1994/angeo-12-1158-1994.html. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These induced oscillations depend on both kinetochore-derived and polar ejection forces that oppose poleward motion.
Kuan-Chung Su, Zachary Barry, Nina Schweizer, Helder Maiato, Mark Bathe, Iain McPhersonCheeseman 2016, 'A Regulatory Switch Alters Chromosome Motions at the Metaphase-to-Anaphase Transition',Cell Reportshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124716314668. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The autochthonous benthic fauna emigrates to deeper water or poleward, or suffers mortality.
W. E. Arntz, V. A. Gallardo, D. Gutiérrez, E. Isla, L. A. Levin, J. Mendo, C. Neira,G. T. Rowe, J. Tarazona, M. Wolff 2006, 'El Niño and similar perturbation effects on the benthos of the Humboldt, California,and Benguela Current upwelling ecosystems', Advances in Geoscienceshttp://www.adv-geosci.net/6/243/2006/adgeo-6-243-2006.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
During an event of strong southerly wind, the poleward flow was observed to extend to the whole continental shelf.
Nuno Gonçalo Ferreira Cordeiro, Jesus Dubert, Rita Nolasco, Eric Desmond Barton 2018, 'Transient response of the Northwestern Iberian upwelling regime.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5957426?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Both cases were observed in association with poleward-moving transient events seen by ground-based radar, as also predicted by the theory.
M. Lockwood, C. J. Davis, 'On the longitudinal extent of magnetopause reconnection pulses', Annales Geophysicaehttp://www.ann-geophys.net/14/865/1996/angeo-14-865-1996.html. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Most poleward latitudes of the onsets are found to range around 73° magnetic latitude during very quiet times.
H. Wang, H. Wang, H. Lühr, S. Y. Ma, P. Ritter 2005, 'Statistical study of the substorm onset: its dependence on solar wind parameters andsolar illumination', Annales Geophysicaehttps://www.ann-geophys.net/23/2069/2005/angeo-23-2069-2005.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)