troposphere
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"The heat near the ground has been forced up into the freezing layers of the troposphere, cooling rapidly and creating giant cumulonimbus clouds and thundery downpours."
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
The discovery significantly changed scientists' understanding of atmospheric chemistry in the troposphere.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
Jet streams travel in the tropopause—the area between the troposphere and the stratosphere—that hovers between five and nine miles above the Earth's surface.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 26, 2024
They noted that their study was the first to officially discover airborne microplastics in cloud water both in the atmospheric boundary layer and in the free troposphere.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023
At 29,028 feet up in the troposphere, so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing troposphere
Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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Weather and Climate - Middle School
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