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POLE. A measure of length, equal to five yards and a half. Vide Measure.

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In some cases (e.g., Finescale Triggerfish and possibly Bullseye Puffer), reappearances may occur regularly with warm water anomalies as these species move northward with poleward flow of warm waters.

Shifts in the distribution and abundance of coastal marine species along the eastern Pacific Ocean during marine heatwaves from 2013 to 2018

With ocean temperatures increasing, species are predicted to shift their ranges poleward, a trend that has already been observed across a wide range of taxonomic groups, mostly at temperate latitudes (Dawson et al.

Range Expansion or Range Shift? Population Genetics and Historic Range Data Analyses of the Predatory Benthic Sea Slug Phidiana hiltoni (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia)

Warm tropical waters are drawn poleward to complete the loop.

HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE OCEAN: FOLLOWING SEAWATER PATHWAYS TO HELP PREDICT CLIMATE CHANGES

Storms mostly move around the globe in preferred regions called "storm tracks," forming over the ocean and generally traveling eastward and somewhat poleward along these paths.

HOW STORMS WILL VEER IN A WARMER WORLD

5) illustrates that COSE and unconstrained ROMS sustain a more intense and coastal Poleward Under current (PUC) and a deeper mixed layer than HY COM.

A reanalysis of the Chilean ocean circulation: preliminary results for the region between 20[degrees]S to 40[degrees]S

The Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC) consists of an upward transport branch across the tropical tropopause in the tropics and downward and poleward transport branches in the extratropics in the two hemispheres [1].

Brewer-Dobson Circulation: Recent-Past and Near-Future Trends Simulated by Chemistry-Climate Models

As a consequence of the temperature increase, ice is melting worldwide; oceans are rising; habitat for vegetation and animals is moving poleward due to the changing climate; and so on.

Large-scale CO2 storage bad idea for Northwest

For many species, the geographic distribution of preferred habitat shifts poleward with increasing ambient temperature.

Temperature-dependent growth of early juvenile Southern Tanner Crab Chionoecetes bairdi: implications for cold pool effects and climate change in the Southeastern Bering Sea

based Climate Institute raised in his letter to the committee that is reviewing Australia's future in research and innovation is that "the primary Southern Hemisphere storm track that brings precipitation to the agricultural areas of southern Australia is shifting poleward as global warming leads to a general expansion of the subtropics.

Australia Climate R&D Spending Cut Bad News For Asia Pacific Region

Travel poleward overland by dogsled was to begin in autumn 1879.

In The Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of The U.S.S. Jeannette

Maxwell had suppressed Gauss's formula as "conflicting with the Energy Conservation 'Law'." The author updates his 1973 climate study predicting that Global Warming would expand Earth's desert belts poleward, like the Sahara grew with post-Ice Age warming.

Science Myths We Tell Ourselves

It may mean that the thermodynamically favourable conditions for these storms are migrating poleward.'