polar easterlies

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polar easterlies [′pō·lər ′ēs·tər‚lēz]

(meteorology)

The rather shallow and diffuse body of easterly winds located poleward of the subpolar low-pressure belt; in the mean in the Northern Hemisphere, these easterlies exist to an appreciable extent only north of the Aleutian low and Icelandic low.

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