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    The tropopause is the atmospheric boundary that demarcates the troposphere from the stratosphere, which are the lowest two of the five layers of the atmosphere...
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    is an inversion layer in which air-temperature increases with altitude, the temperature of the tropopause remains constant. The layer has the largest...
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    ozone layer allows life to exist on the surface of the planet outside of the ocean. All air entering the stratosphere must pass through the tropopause, the...
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  • convective turbulence that the free convective layer comprises the entire troposphere up to the tropopause (the boundary in the Earth's atmosphere between...
    21 KB (2,073 words) - 13:30, 30 April 2024
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    significant route of air entering the stratosphere is through the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) via convection. The air masses are shifted by convection...
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    000 ft). It is the layer where most meteors burn up upon entering the atmosphere. Stratosphere: The stratosphere extends from the tropopause to about 51 km...
    54 KB (5,664 words) - 13:00, 5 September 2024
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    CO;2. — (February 16, 2002). "The effect of deep, tropical convection on the tropical tropopause layer". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 107...
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    Angell (November 2000). "Climatological characteristics of the tropical tropopause as revealed by radiosondes". Journal of Geophysical Research. 106...
    42 KB (4,707 words) - 04:10, 21 August 2024
  • On Earth, the main jet streams are located near the altitude of the tropopause and are westerly winds (flowing west to east). Jet streams may start,...
    83 KB (9,125 words) - 06:08, 14 September 2024
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    by wind shear where the rising air currents hit the inversion layer at the tropopause. Mamma or mammatus: consisting of bubble-like protrusions on the...
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    occurs within the troposphere. Following the tropopause is the stratosphere. This layer extends from the tropopause to the stratopause, which is located at...
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    phenomena, frontal shear can be observed at any altitude between surface and tropopause, and can therefore be seen both horizontally and vertically. Vertical...
    29 KB (3,345 words) - 16:06, 10 June 2024
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    -zə-/; from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos) 'middle' and -sphere) is the third layer of the atmosphere, directly above the stratosphere and directly below the...
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    injection into the rising leg of the Brewer-Dobson circulation above the tropical tropopause. Further, sizing of particles is crucial to their endurance. Aerosol...
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    increases as latitude decreases, but the altitude is always capped by the tropopause. These conditions commonly occur at the leading edge of a warm front....
    61 KB (6,079 words) - 17:10, 3 August 2024
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    reaches a minimum at the tropopause, which is the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere. On Jupiter, the tropopause is approximately 50 km above...
    122 KB (14,180 words) - 13:00, 2 September 2024
  • energy creates powerful rising air currents that swirl upwards to the tropopause. Cool descending air currents produce strong downdraughts below the storm...
    51 KB (5,813 words) - 04:49, 14 May 2024
  • {\textstyle \tau _{\text{tp}}} , in the tropopause, which is determined by the temperature and pressure at the tropopause according to the saturation vapor...
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    shape as a result of rising air currents hitting the stability layer at the tropopause where the air no longer continues to get colder with increasing...
    124 KB (12,958 words) - 18:55, 9 September 2024
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    by wind shear where the rising air currents hit the inversion layer at the tropopause. Mamma Also sometimes called Mammatus, consisting of bubble-like...
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