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troposphere

[ UK /tɹˈɒpəsfˌi‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. the lowest atmospheric layer; from 4 to 11 miles high (depending on latitude)

How To Use troposphere In A Sentence

  • In the troposphere, water exists as vapor in air, as liquid droplets in clouds, and as frozen ice particles in high altitude cirrus clouds.
  • Oman: We studied the scenario of using 100 Hiroshima-size bombs, the fires from which would inject upward of 5 teragrams (megatons) of black carbon particles into Earth's upper troposphere.
  • High-flying aircraft sample ambient air to monitor ozone levels in the troposphere.
  • At the top of the troposphere, the temperature reaches minus 55 degrees C.
  • The other two climate records, so-called ‘upper air’ records, measure temperatures in Earth's troposphere and stratosphere.
  • In El Nino the tropical atmosphere warms, and the vertical structure of this warming is indeed close to that obtained by assuming that the atmosphere stays near a moist adiabat, that is, the warming is substantially larger in the upper troposphere than near the surface. Truth Machines « Climate Audit
  • I think it transfers it to surrounding gas molecules rather quickly thus warming the atmosphere water on the other hand i suspect hangs on to the latent heat of vaporisation, which is then not given up until it forms into droplets in clouds which takes a little longer and it’s higher in the troposphere and it might also be a considerable distance laterally from where it first took off from the surface. Unthreaded #15 « Climate Audit
  • As a result, there is much less interaction between the lower troposphere air masses of the polar regions and middle latitudes.
  • Finally, a few hundred kilometers behind the front, scattered stratocumulus are common in the lower troposphere. Air masses and frontal transitional zones
  • Like nacreous clouds, these usually form slightly above the troposphere, in the dry and ice-free stratosphere.
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