transpolar air routes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : The two have personalities that are polar. ,the polar provision of the treaty. ,a polar precept. From Dictionary.com.
And so, of course, do the transpolar missile, air and submarine defences. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years On] Reference
A transpolar drift carries sea ice from the Siberian shelves to the Barents Sea and Fram Strait. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Arctic] Reference
In the first decade of observations, the transpolar drift of sea ice moved directly from the Laptev Sea to Fram Strait. From Wordnik.com. [Arctic climate variability in the twentieth century] Reference
There were two transpolar routes that passed within a few hundred miles of here, but no air transport he had ever seen made a noise like that. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
Odo concentrated on transforming his fingers into right-angled wiring grippers in order to disconnect an inline series of transpolar compensators. From Wordnik.com. [THE WAR OF THE PROPHETS] Reference
Completely aside from the global warming implications (such as meltwater from the nearby Greenland ice cap halting the Gulf Stream return loop and plunging Europe into another Ice Age), this does open up the possibility of transpolar freight. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Polar ice cap vanishing.] Reference
In addition to the ice-albedo difference, I would have thought that there were other relevant differences between the two poles such as the presence of “warm” Atlantic water in the Arctic; the ongoing formation of sea ice in the seas offshore Siberia from north-flowing rivers; the transpolar drift of sea ice back to the Atlantic to melt; the thin veneer of fresh cold water from the above and reverse thermocline. From Wordnik.com. [Antarctic Update « Climate Audit] Reference
In the next 5 or 10 years warming is likely to be maintained as a transpolar shift occurs. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
The onset and increase of temperature anomaly in the Arctic coincided with the growth of transpolar air traffic. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Bilge] Reference
Most of the growth in transpolar flights has taken place during a period of relatively quiet space weather because the sun has been in an inactive part of its 11-year cycle, Murtagh says. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
After those failures, the FAA has told Boeing that it won't get early certification needed to fly the 787 on transocean and transpolar routes without proof of engine and system reliability. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Commercial airlines are rapidly increasing their use of transpolar flights, which are often rerouted during major solar storms, since impacts can be greatest in the high-latitude and polar regions. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
(Earth's magnetic shielding is weakest at the poles, for instance, so transpolar flights would be at greater risk from solar storms.) "Our big goal is to learn how to predict what the sun is going to do," says. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
Earlier this month, John Hickey, the FAA's deputy associate administrator for aviation safety, visited Seattle and warned 787 executives that in the current state of the program, the jet cannot be certified for long-distance transocean and transpolar flights, according to a person familiar with the details. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Has yet to agree on the steps Boeing must take during the flight-test program to certify the jet to fly long transocean and transpolar routes. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
We have thousands of transpolar commercial passenger flights, "said Byers, a politics professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. From Wordnik.com. [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference
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