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atmosphere
(redirected from troposphere)

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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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The smoke from small wildfires typically rises only a few kilometers and stays within the troposphere, the layer of the atmosphere where most weather occurs.
Temperature in the troposphere is virtually unchanged since 1979 once El Ninos and volcanic eruptions are taken into account.
Uniquely, these soundings sampled the troposphere during a period (1700-2100 UTC) of weak vertical wind shear, peak boundary layer mixing, and thermodynamic instability prior to the release of deep convection.
 
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