Sentences with phrase «confined near the pole»
«In winter, the freezing Arctic air is normally «locked» by strong circumpolar winds several tens of kilometers high in the atmosphere, known as the stratospheric polar vortex, so that the cold air is confined near the pole,» said study co-author Marlene Kretschmer from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impacts Research in Germany, in a press release.
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Water on the moon, if it exists at all, is probably confined to frozen deposits in a few shadowed craters near its poles.