Northward

The ship struck northward.

The ship continued northward.

Winter storms have increased in frequency and intensity since the 1950s, and their tracks have shifted northward over the United States.

Scientists have satellites along with observations from international spacecraft to conduct a wide range of research, from detecting northward expansion of forests in the Arctic to monitoring how burned areas recover from wildfires.

Authorities say temperatures are being driven higher by a hot air mass moving northward from Africa.

Fish, shellfish, and other marine species along the Northeast coast and in the eastern Bering Sea have, on average, moved northward and to greater depths toward cooler waters since the early 1980s.

There is a gradual cline of decreasing size to the northward.

To the northward a silvery stream could be seen meandering, bordered by willows, aspens, osiers, and other trees of considerable height, breaking the line of the horizon.

UNICEF’s representative in Ethiopia, Bjorn Ljungqvist, says short rains did not materialize, particularly affecting the areas bordering Somalia and Kenya, and a northward belt that depends on precipitation.