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Polar Regions
plural noun
- the regions within the Arctic and Antarctic circles.
Example Sentences
This is just part of an area referred to by some as the Third Pole; a place which has more ice than any other part of the world outside the polar regions.
The team say the Moon is an appealing location for a backup bio-vault due to its natural features, including deep craters near polar regions which never see sunlight and frigid conditions that readily reach the -196 degrees Celsius needed for long-term biological sample preservation.
In a study earlier this year, computer modelling found that stratospheric aerosol injection could cause strong warming 15km above the tropics which would change large-scale weather patterns, warming the polar regions and altering rainfall patterns over land.
New research led by Lia Siegelman, a physical oceanographer at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the roiling storms at the planet Jupiter's polar regions are powered by processes known to physicists studying Earth's oceans and atmosphere.
Field measurements further validated the relevance of these reactions across diverse chemical environments, including urban areas, marine and polar regions, and volcanic plumes.
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