Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The lowest region of the atmosphere between the earth's surface and the tropopause, characterized by decreasing temperature with increasing altitude.
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- noun The lower levels of the
atmosphere extending from the earth's surface up to thetropopause . It is characterized byconvective air movements and a large vertical temperature change.
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- noun the lowest atmospheric layer; from 4 to 11 miles high (depending on latitude)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like why is warming in the troposphere in the Antartic signfigant, while less warming in the troposphere* elsewhere. is insignfigant.
Grapevine: Mann to testify on 27th July « Climate Audit 2006
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Indeed, the name troposphere means region of mixing.
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Carried up by the rising warm air in the region around the damaged Fukushima plant, particles of radioactive isotopes such as iodine-131 and xenon-133 are being carried at about 50 miles per hour by winds blowing from west to east in a band of the atmosphere called the troposphere, about 6,500 feet to about 30,000 feet or more above the ground.
Radiation Detected in U.S. Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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At the upper edge of the troposphere is a narrow transition zone known as the tropopause.
Atmosphere layers 2010
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The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere.
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One could rather say it is the lower portion of the atmosphere, the troposphere, which is our environment, it is ten to twenty kilometers above sea level, where the winds turn – this is very much our environment.
Archive 2009-04-10 2009
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One could rather say it is the lower portion of the atmosphere, the troposphere, which is our environment, it is ten to twenty kilometers above sea level, where the winds turn – this is very much our environment.
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The troposphere is the atmospheric layer closest to the earth's surface.
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Yes, but you know, he's going to be back at it hopefully in August but just as a meteorologist, it's just fascinating to me to think about flying through the stratosphere, let alone the troposphere, which is where I was.
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Above the troposphere is the Stratosphere and important region in which effects such as Ozone Hole and Global Warming originate.
reesetee commented on the word troposphere
The lowest layer of earth's atmosphere.
August 1, 2007