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atmosphere
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atmosphere noun air, airspace, ambience, aura, background, circumambience, climate, climatic condition, element, environing influence, environment, medium, mood, setting, space, surroundings, weather
Associated concepts: clouding the atmosphere, polluting the atmosphere
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2]) at the tropopause [the boundary between the troposphere, where most weather occurs, and the stratosphere, the next atmospheric layer above the troposphere] after allowing for stratospheric temperatures to readjust to radiative equilibrium, but with surface and tropospheric temperatures and state held fixed at the unperturbed values" (Forster et al.
Rolling the DICE: William Nordhaus's dubious case for a carbon tax by Murphy, Robert P. / Independent Review
According to the researchers, if very deep clouds, such as those in a tropical cyclone that can rise through the atmosphere at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour, can punch through the tropopause, they can deposit their ice in the warmer overlying stratosphere, where it then evaporates.
Cyclones can feed global warming by spurting ice into stratosphere by Asian News International
These gases in the tropopause layer of the atmosphere which is about 30,000 feet above the ground, contribute to global warming through their ability to reduce the radiation from the Earth and thereby result in global warming.
Can Carbon Dioxide Reduction in the Air Cause Famine? by Dilip Dahanukar / News, opinion and commentary community
 
 
 
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