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  • adjective Extending across or crossing either of the Polar Regions.

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  • adjective extending across, or crossing one of the poles, or a polar region

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  • adjective extending across or crossing either pole

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Examples

  • Photo/Video: NASA Airlines occasionally reroute transpolar flights as a precautionary measure during big solar storms, with radiation levels heightened near the poles because of the relatively thin ozone layer.

    Delta Reroutes Flights As Solar Storm Hits Earth Doug Cameron 2012

  • United Continental Holdings Inc., which operates a number of transpolar flights from Chicago and Newark airports, said there had been no operational impact from the storm on Asian flights.

    Delta Reroutes Flights As Solar Storm Hits Earth Doug Cameron 2012

  • Airlines occasionally reroute transpolar flights as a precaution during big solar storms, with radiation levels heightened near the poles.

    Big Solar Storm Hits Earth Robert Lee Hotz 2012

  • United, which operates a number of transpolar flights from Chicago and Newark airports, said it had rerouted flights between Washington and Dubai.

    Big Solar Storm Hits Earth Robert Lee Hotz 2012

  • Delta Air Lines Inc. said Tuesday that it was rerouting some transpolar flights between Asia and the U.S. to avoid the impact of the largest solar storm in almost a decade.

    Delta Reroutes Flights As Solar Storm Hits Earth Doug Cameron 2012

  • Delta Air Lines Inc. and United Continental Holdings Inc. said they were rerouting some transpolar flights to avoid the storm.

    Big Solar Storm Hits Earth Robert Lee Hotz 2012

  • During the 1990s, the source of the transpolar drift moved eastward into the East Siberian Sea and the Beaufort Gyre shrank eastward into the Beaufort Sea [104].

    Arctic climate variability in the twentieth century 2009

  • A transpolar drift carries sea ice from the Siberian shelves to the Barents Sea and Fram Strait.

    Marine Arctic 2009

  • In the first decade of observations, the transpolar drift of sea ice moved directly from the Laptev Sea to Fram Strait.

    Arctic climate variability in the twentieth century 2009

  • The other predominant current in the Arctic Ocean, the transpolar drift stream, carries water and ice from Siberia, across the pole and down the east coast of Greenland, joining the East Greenland current.

    Arctic Ocean 2008

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